Medically reviewed by Femi Aremu, PharmD Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) is an evergreen shrub found in parts of India, Asia ...

More recently, though, research has identified an imbalance of microbes on the skin as contributing to itchy, flaky scalp ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has placed its most serious warning – a so-called black-box warning – on a drug used to relieve menopausal hot flashes. The FDA says women who are taking ...

Teen drug use continued to fall in 2024, extending a dramatic decline spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic that experts expected would reverse now that the acute phase of the global crisis is well over.

including medication and non-drug approaches, can make a real difference. An underactive thyroid can also affect metabolism — the process by which cells convert calories from food and drink into ...

Levothyroxine replaces the thyroid hormones a person’s body is not producing enough of. Taking more of this drug than someone needs may result in: Hypothyroidism may cause night sweats ...

This type of pain can be severe and more difficult to treat. Nerve pain is typically treated with prescription-strength medications, but some over-the-counter products, primarily topical creams ...

For many people, fatigue related to thyroid disease is so extreme that it interferes with daily life. Adjusting your thyroid medication dose (under the guidance of your healthcare provider), improving ...

Eli Lilly, the company that makes the blockbuster weight loss treatment Zepbound, will start studying its obesity products as treatments for alcohol and drug addiction, making it the first major ...

Graves’ disease is an autoimmune condition that causes the thyroid gland to overproduce thyroid hormones. Treatment for Graves’ disease is relatively simple, but without it, the disease can ...

These fluctuations can occur as your thyroid disease progresses or from other factors such as your age, changes in weight, pregnancy, drug interactions, and even the seasons. Fluctuations in TSH ...