WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8, 2023 -- A second injectable diabetes drug has been approved for weight loss in overweight and obese adults, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday. The weight-loss drug Zepbound contains the same active...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8, 2023 (Healthday News) -- A new drug to treat postpartum depression will cost nearly $16,000 for a 14-day course of treatment, a price tag that has doctors worried that some patients won't be able to afford the...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8, 2023 -- For smokers and former smokers, getting annual CT scans of the chest to catch lung cancers early dramatically improves survival, new research shows. Many people may believe lung cancer to be swiftly fatal. However, the...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8, 2023 -- Forget "Jaws": The remarkable wound-healing power of shark skin could end up helping humans, new research claims. Shark skin is coated with a special film of mucus that more closely resembles mucus generated by people...
WEDNESDAY, Nov 8, 2023 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has received at least three reports of people being hospitalized after taking counterfeit versions of the wildly popular weight-loss drugs known as semaglutides. At least one of these...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 7, 2023 -- California banned menthol cigarettes and flavored vaping products in late 2022, based on concerns the flavors encouraged teens to get hooked on nicotine. But a new study finds many smokers simply shrugged and turned to...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8, 2023 -- Black and Hispanic Americans might be receiving worse hospital care following cardiac arrest than Whites do, a new study reports. Only about 20% of Blacks and 22% of Hispanics admitted to a hospital after initially...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8, 2023 -- Everyone knows smoking to be a major cause of cancer. Now, exactly how tobacco smoke triggers tumor development just got a bit clearer, thanks to new Canadian research. According to a team at the Ontario Institute for...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8, 2023 -- There's your calendar age, and then there's what scientists call your "biological" age, which is based on various measurements indicating good or not-so-good health. Now, new Swedish research finds that less healthy...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8, 2023 (Healthday News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it plans to pull a veterinary drug used commonly in the pork industry because it might pose a cancer risk to humans who eat pig products. The...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 8, 2023 -- “Davey” Bauer hovered on the precipice of death, his lungs damaged by vaping and congested by antibiotic-resistant pneumonia. Doctors saved his life with a jury-rigged artificial lung, a prompt double-lung...