"For the first time, we found that empagliflozin, an established diabetes and heart medication, reduced markers of brain ...

One in six adults in England are taking antidepressants. That’s eight million people, yet remarkably even doctors don’t fully ...

The common cholesterol-lowering medication protects patients’ mental skills used to plan, organise and manage emotions ...

The most common cholesterol drug around might help protect cancer patients from "chemo brain." Statins appeared to protect ...

Metformin has been prescribed to people with type 2 diabetes to manage blood sugar for more than 60 years, but scientists haven't been exactly sure how it works. A new study suggests it works directly ...

A look at these issues for patients and the next steps other researchers based on what they've discovered so far.

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call ...

An international clinical study led by the Medical University of Vienna shows that the drug patritumab deruxtecan (HER3-DXd) can have a promising effect in patients with active brain metastases of ...

GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic and Wegovy appear to make people feel less drunk and reduce alcohol cravings by delaying ...