Metformin has been prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes to manage blood sugar for more than 60 years, but scientists ...

What if a single choice could hijack your brain’s wiring, rewriting your behavior, judgment, and even your ability to survive? The human brain is an essential organ in the body, responsible for ...

From idea, to lab, to clinic, to approval—it's a long and expensive process to bring a drug to market. It also rarely ...

Scientists in Switzerland have created a robot the size of a grain of sand that is controlled by magnets and can deliver ...

As severe mental illnesses continue to emerge, the importance of pharmacological approaches has become prevalent within the pharmaceutical industry. Also, significant research identifies how ...

For more than 70 years, hydralazine has helped doctors lower dangerously high blood pressure during medical emergencies, ...

A commonly used drug may be the secret to a longer, healthier life, new research suggests. Aging is a complex process, which many of us consider to be an inevitable consequence of life on Earth. But ...

The Food and Drug Administration and National Institutes of Health held a joint workshop July 7 on reducing animal testing in research, strikingly announcing that “NIH will no longer seek proposals ...

The race to develop the next generation of weight loss drugs has taken an interesting new turn. In recent research, Eli Lilly ...