A new weekly injection may soon transform how millions manage Parkinson’s disease. For over 8.5 million people living with this condition worldwide, daily treatment has meant taking levodopa and ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. ROCHESTER, N.H. — Megan Merrill paused, mid-hike, as she surveyed the steep drop before her. She was standing on a five-foot snow drift, icy ...

Hepatitis C is an infection of the liver caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Experts estimate that about 2.4 million people in the United States are living with hepatitis C—but that figure could be ...

Researchers from the University of California San Diego have revealed new trends in drug consumption that shed light on how people are adapting to the evolving risks associated with unregulated drug ...

Background: In Iran, there are an estimated 200,000 injecting drug users (IDUs). Injecting drug use is a relatively new phenomenon for this country, where opium smoking was the predominant form of ...

GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic have become massively popular for their slimming side effects, but understanding of their effects is ...

A potential drug-abuse therapy opportunity squandered. State lawmakers dropped the controversial idea to pursue so-called safe injection sites in a compromise addiction and substance-use disorder bill ...

The Alzheimer's treatment Leqembi is prepared at Abington Neurological Associates in Abington, PA., on November 7, 2023. The medicine is now available in a self-injecting pen, Leqembi Iqlik. Credit - ...

Self-testing and self-treating are becoming bigger trends in medicine, and now, you can conduct part of your treatment at home by yourself if you have Alzheimer’s disease. On Aug. 29, the U.S. Food ...