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Pfizer's new experimental weight-loss pill worked in achieving its stated goal — but with that weight loss came some pretty bad side effects.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

A public employee in Washington State is suing to get her health insurer to cover Wegovy, the expensive, headline-grabbing weight loss med.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Ozempic, the uber-popular injectable diabetes drug, has had to update its potential side effect warnings to include intestinal blockage.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists believe they have developed a drug that can trick the body into thinking it has exercised — but as always, there are caveats. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

50 percent of cardiac patients have a physical symptom a day before a heart attack, with men and women experiencing distinct warning signs.
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By Sharon Adarlo

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By Noor Al-Sibai

A drug trial has found that Wegovy provides substantial heart health benefits, which could finally convince insurers to begin covering it.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers pinpointed six chemical cocktails that can reverse aging in cells and turn them into a more "youthful state."
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By Sharon Adarlo

The Food and Drug Administration just approved the first topical erectile dysfunction drug in the US that works within just ten minutes.
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By Frank Landymore

One of the scientists who invented the underlying mechanism of Ozempic has a pretty severe warning for those interested in taking it.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Gwenyth Paltrow, reigning queen of oversharing, is back to let us all know that she has, in fact, used ozone therapy rectally. You know, as one does.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The FDA has changed its rules to make it easier for patients to access abortion pills, which until now were difficult to get.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Harm reduction works, as evidenced by a new study in Ohio that found easy access to narcan to prevent nearly 1,000 overdoses in less than two years. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

In what could be a groundbreaking treatment for hair loss, Japanese scientists have, for the first time ever, grown hair follicles in a lab. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

A federal court has revived a lawsuit against Walmart and CVS for allegedly passing off long-discredited homeopathic treatments as actual, proven medicine. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists are using genetically modified parasites inside mosquitoes to deliver life-saving malaria vaccines in a new clinical study.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

Navy SEALs candidates go through brutal training, including a Hell Week. One Navy SEAL candidate died after completing training, and took drugs to survive.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

Low doses of minoxidil, the active ingredient in Rogaine, may reverse balding super cheaply — and yet most of us still haven't heard of it. 
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli is reportedly launching a Web3 drug discovery platform called Druglike, allegedly to democratize and decentralize the industry.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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By Lonnie Lee Hood

North Korea Claims It Only Got COVID Because South Korea Sent Over “Tainted Balloons”
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

Demand for both abortion and non-abortion emergency contraceptive pills has skyrocketed, putting a lot of added stress on makers, providers, and pharmacies.
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By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A group of researchers say they found the molecules in mouse blood that reduces appetite and obesity — an exercise pill, if you will.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

A UK toddler started puberty at just two years old after being exposed to his dad's testosterone gel, a hormone used for gender-affirming care.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

Immunity-boosting drugs may have huge implications in the pharmaceutical fight against COVID-19.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Reserachers used a spinal cord implant in mice to help them walk again after being paralyzed long-term. They hope for human clinical trials.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

Joe Rogan actually used to want people to get the vaccine as evidenced by a resurfaced clip with guest Dr. Michael Osterholm, member of Biden’s COVID board.
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By Lonnie Lee Hood

To no one's surprise, a new study has found that many purported hangover "cures" are pretty much worthless.
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Tech Bro Thinks He’s Close to Cheating Death
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By Noor Al-Sibai

Doctors say that a woman who refused treatment and took CBD oil instead showed a remarkable improvement and that the tumor in her lung shrank drastically.
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By Dan Robitzski

The World Health Organization gave the world's first malaria vaccine the green light, but it will be a challenge to deploy for the countries that need it.
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By Dan Robitzski

The World Health Organization says that the world's first malaria vaccine is finally ready for widespread use, and that it could save countless children.
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By Dan Robitzski

An experimental gene therapy drastically improved the eyesight — and ability to see color — of volunteers with a rare genetic condition.
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By Dan Robitzski

A new MIT research center aims to merge humanity with tech like brain-computer interfacesor robotic limbs in order to treat or erase physical disabilities.
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By Dan Robitzski

The FDA approved a new weight loss drug called semaglutide that doctors say could be a valuable tool in new obesity treatments.
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By Dan Robitzski

Three members of an independent advisory panel to the FDA resigned in protest after the agency approved a controversial Alzheimer's treatment.
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By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found a key difference in the way that axolotls and mammals respond to injuries, potentially revealing a pathway to regenerative medicine.
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By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have developed a highly effective vaccine for malaria that offers far better protection than any past attempts.
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By Dan Robitzski

Simon Kindleysides, who's paralyzed from the waist down, walked over 100 miles in a powered exoskeleton during February to raise money for the NHS.
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By Dan Robitzski

Biologist Jimmy Bernot willingly infected himself with hookworms as part of a clinical trial on an experimental vaccine for the parasite.
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By Dan Robitzski

A man's vape exploded in his mouth, burning his mouth and shattering several of his teeth, according to a new case report.
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By Dan Robitzski

Scientists gene-hacked mice to produce a nerve-healing protein that treated their total paraplegia and allowed them to walk again.
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By Dan Robitzski

A new human stem cell derived from fat cells seems to be capable of adapting to and repairing damage in many parts of the body.
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By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to electrodes implanted in his brain, a man was able to feed himself with two robotic arms, controlling them with nothing more than his thoughts.
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By Dan Robitzski

TikTok parent company ByteDance is assembling a team of AI experts that it hopes will build AI to develop new pharmaceuticals.
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By Dan Robitzski

Doctors who perform surgery on their birthday seem to lose more patients than on any other day, according to a new study on emergency operations.
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By Dan Robitzski

Blocking a single protein called 15-PGDH made old mice much stronger and healthier, as though they had been made younger as a result.
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By Dan Robitzski

An experimental robot pill grows needles made of sugar when swallowed and inject medications — from inside someone's intestine.
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By Dan Robitzski

The pharmaceutical distributor AvKare issued a recall for trazodone and sildenafil after the two were mixed together in the same bottles.
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By Dan Robitzski

A placebo-controlled study identified which impacts of microdosing LSD, from improved focus to anxiety, emerge at which dosages.
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By Dan Robitzski

A new colonoscopy robot sounds terrifying, but it might actually make for a smoother ride than having a human doctor steer the endoscope.
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By Dan Robitzski

A team of MIT scientists working on a universal flu vaccine, or a single inoculation that blocks all flu viruses, modeled a successful vaccination method.
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By Dan Robitzski

A new hydrogel, when implanted into rats and toads, worked like a bridge between damaged nerves and healed them faster than other techniques.
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By Dan Robitzski

Scientists uncovered a series of epigenetic changes that seem to predict late-onset Alzheimer's disease, hinting at the possibility of future treatments.
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By Dan Robitzski

There's finally published research suggesting that the Russian COVID-19 vaccine boosts the immune system, but it's not clear if it will actually help.
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By Dan Robitzski

The bodybuilding supplement AKG keeps mouse alive and healthy for longer, so scientists want to see if it does the same for humans.
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By Dan Robitzski

Tiny doses of the psychedelic drug LSD could be an effective painkiller — perhaps as powerful, scientists found, as conventional opioids like morphine.
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By Jon Christian

New research suggests that a woman is cured of HIV without taking any medications or getting a bone marrow transplant as other cured patients did.
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By Dan Robitzski

In extremely preliminary research, blood transfusions seem to have reversed some aspects of menopause and allowed women to get pregnant.
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By Dan Robitzski

Havn Life wants to build a safe, standardized supply chain for psilocybin researchers in Canada in hopes of developing new medical treatments.
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By Dan Robitzski

An experimental gene therapy seems to have staved off a young boy's Duchenne muscular dystrophy, suggesting new treatments could be on the way.
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By Dan Robitzski

The experimental COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna Inc begins its phase three clinical trials, the last round of testing before possible approval, on Monday.
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By Dan Robitzski

A massive new study strongly links high blood iron levels with a longer lifespan, giving hope to new longevity treatments.
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By Dan Robitzski

Scientists grew stermatogonial stem cells — the precursors to sperm — in a lab for the first time, potentially unlocking new fertility treatments.
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By Dan Robitzski