Metformin has been prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes to manage blood sugar for more than 60 years, but scientists haven't been exactly sure how it works. A new study suggests it works directly ...

Tylenol and NSAIDs both help with pain perception and fever, but the medications do have one key difference. Distinctly, ...

Dublin-based Aerska launched on Wednesday with $21 million in seed funding and a technology designed to shuttle RNA ...

At clinically relevant exposures, turning that switch down in the brain was required for metformin to lower glucose, and tiny ...

Earlier this year, two new drugs that have been shown in global trials to slow early-stage Alzheimer's disease, donanemab and ...

UCSF neurologist Dr. Shirvalkar studies nerve-to-brain connections to find new ways to treat chronic back pain.

A combination of metformin, a common diabetes drug, and clemastine, an antihistamine, can help repair myelin—the protective ...

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 ...

When it comes to weight loss, we’re all after a magic bullet, a simple, stress-free way of shedding the excess pounds. And so for millions around the world, the arrival of the so-called GLP-1 class of ...

A breakthrough has been made in weight-loss drugs after scientists discovered a new medication – known as TDP – that works without causing side effects of nausea or vomiting. Millions of Americans are ...

Caroline Connor's concerns about her son's development began around his first birthday, when she noticed he wasn't talking or ...

Psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen explains how beta blockers work for anxiety by blocking adrenaline effects, as the medication is ...