The treatment also prevented the development of arthritis after knee injuries such as ACL tears often experienced by athletes.

Experts say Biden's focus on addiction health care saved tens of thousands of lives and slowed fentanyl smuggling. Trump scrapped Biden's approach in favor of military strikes.

Brian Lian founded publicly traded Viking Therapeutics to focus on metabolic diseases. With obesity drugs in development and the GLP-1 space booming, it’s now a prime M&A target for giants jostling for their share of a potential $100 billion market.

Drug-induced schizophrenia is a chronic mental health condition with symptoms similar to drug-induced psychosis, such as delusions and hallucinations, but it is longer-lasting and not directly caused by substance use. The condition is likely caused by a ...

Vanda Pharmaceuticals has received FDA approval for Nereus (tradipitant), an oral NK-1 receptor antagonist developed to prevent motion-induced vomiting. The approval makes Nereus the first new pharmacologic treatment for motion sickness in more than four decades.

When a pharmaceutical company first develops a new drug to be used for a disease condition, it is initially sold under a brand name by which the clinicians can prescribe the drug for use by patients. The drug is covered under patent protection, which means ...

Professionals in certain positions where they are responsible for the safety of others may need to take a 10-panel drug test. It tests for the misuse of prescription and illegal drugs. The 10-panel drug test screens for the five of the most frequently ...

Some people use the terms “drug tolerance,” “addiction,” and “dependence” interchangeably, but they do not mean the same thing. Drug tolerance occurs when the body or brain does not respond to a drug the way it used to. Drug tolerance is a ...

Early this spring, when the snow began to melt in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, the photographer Emanuele Satolli went knocking on apartment doors in the Uralmash district, a grimy neighborhood in the north of the city. He knew many of its hallways by ...

Most Americans likely will not benefit immediately from efforts to lower prescription prices. Administration officials expect effects to spread as markets are reshaped.

A drug interaction happens when a substance affects how a drug behaves in the body. Some substances that can cause interactions include other drugs, supplements, food, and alcohol. Drug interactions can make a drug less effective. In some cases, they can ...