Too often as patients age, doctors pile on prescriptions. The practice, known as polypharmacy, can be dangerous at any age but is particularly hazardous for elderly people, from raising the risk of ...

Medically reviewed by Michael MacIntyre, MD Schizophrenia medication falls under two main categories: older, first-generation ...

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The United Kingdom's health regulator is investigating weight loss jabs like Ozempic and Mounjaro after linking it to ...

It’s kind of a sexy term” for a drug that rarely includes actual coke, says one researcher, but that hasn’t hurt the ...

ProPublica spent 14 months investigating the FDA’s oversight of foreign drugmakers that send medications to the U.S. These ...

A new generation of weight-loss drugs has proven remarkably effective, hugely popular and massively lucrative in the last few ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved the preventative use of lenacapavir, made by Gilead Sciences, on Wednesday. Experts ...

A federal judge has rejected a bid by compounding pharmacies to allow them to continue making copies of Novo Nordisk's ...

If you’ve ever tried discussing medicines with friends or family and found yourself stumbling over the pronunciation — or even resorting to snapping a photo of the medicine’s packaging to show your ...

In the U.S., that name is submitted to the FDA to ensure it’s not too similar to existing drug names. If it is, the name is revised so that they’re less likely to cause confusion or problems ...

But some drug names seem to break all the rules. Eli Lilly’s Taltz, approved for treating plaque psoriasis in 2016, doesn’t sound like much of anything. It is, however, ...