Drugs under international control include amphetamine-type stimulants, coca/cocaine, cannabis, hallucinogens, opiates and sedative hypnotics. Countries have decided to control these drugs because they ...

The ever-increasing use of GLP-1 agonists is uncovering clues about what else they can do. US doctors write billions of prescriptions each year. During 2024, though, one type of drug stood out ...

Cobenfy, a new drug made by Bristol Myers Squibb and approved by the FDA last week, triggers muscarinic receptors instead of dopamine receptors. It's the first schizophrenia treatment to do so.

For people who are obese and have type 2 diabetes, using Ozempic and other GLP-1 agonist drugs cuts the all-cause mortality rate by 30%, according to a new ...

In what's been called "a medical breakthrough on the verge of happening," scientists have built a soft robot with the capacity to carry different types of drugs through the body – in a device ...

When you pop a prescription pill into your mouth, you trust it to address the issue it was meant to fix. But what really happens? How is your body processing the drugs and what happens if the dosage ...

With sales of $4.9 billion in 2024, Roche’s hemophilia A treatment Hemlibra is the dominant drug in the indication. It is delivered subcutaneously and can be used by inhibitors and non-inhibitors.

GoodRx said drugs that are FDA-approved for type 2 diabetes—Ozempic, Mounjaro and Victoza—had some of the highest fill rates in Southern states such as Oklahoma, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas.

SGLT-2 inhibitor and GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs should be used in all or almost all adults with type 2 diabetes at higher ...