And while there are many medications out there to help people cope with pain, they can often cause their own headaches, to say the very least. Now a pharmaceutical company is potentially on the ...

Available antipsychotic treatments work by blocking dopamine receptors. The new drug, Cobenfy, takes a different approach. By Ellen Barry and Christina Jewett The Food and Drug Administration on ...

If lifestyle changes alone don’t allow you to meet your blood sugar and A1C goals, your doctor may prescribe medication. Here are some factors you and your doctor may consider when deciding ...

Certain medications, such as steroids, diuretics (medications that increase urination), hormones, and some other diabetes medications, can affect the way metformin works. You may need to check ...

When a medication works right, it boosts your health or helps you feel better. But a drug can bring on problems if it doesn't mix well with something else you put into your body, like another ...

Drug-induced lupus is more common in men because they are given these drugs more often; however, not everyone who takes these drugs will develop the disease. Specific criteria for diagnosing ...

When appropriately prescribed, administered and monitored, medications are a cost-effective way to help older adults maintain health, recover from illness or control symptoms of chronic disease.

A team has designed a new drug against malaria and identified its mechanism of action. In 2022, nearly 619,000 global deaths due to malaria were caused by Plasmodium falciparum, the most virulent ...

There are four medications approved in the UK to ease a person’s dementia symptoms, including memory and thinking problems: donepezil rivastigmine galantamine memantine. These treatments are only ...

An international team of researchers have made a promising breakthrough in the development of drugs to treat Alzheimer's Disease. For the first time, scientists have developed a drug that works on ...

Drug-resistant infections occur when pathogens change in ways that render antimicrobial drugs ineffective. As a result, the pathogens survive and continue to spread. When infections are treatable with ...