I was diagnosed with an enlarged prostate two months ago. I thought it was another kidney stone I needed to pass, but I had a totally blocked ...

The UK's first safe drug consumption facility was due to open in October, but has been pushed back. A man and a woman were arrested after hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of the drug were found.

Drug discovery is the process through which potential new medicines are identified. It involves a wide range of scientific disciplines, including biology, chemistry and pharmacology. The role of ...

[23] Alfuzosin undergoes extensive hepatic metabolism; however, its metabolism is not saturable. Only 11% of each dose is excreted by the kidneys as unchanged drug; 75-91% of alfuzosin metabolites ...

Anti-seizure medications, which are also called anticonvulsants or anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs), are medications used to prevent seizures for people who have epilepsy. All AEDs are available only by ...

The same is true for the leading pharmaceutical companies, which generate a large share of their revenue from their top drug brands. For example, in 2023, AbbVie generated some 26 billion U.S ...

Drug delivery describes the method and approach to delivering drugs or pharmaceuticals and other xenobiotics to their site of action within an organism, with the goal of achieving a therapeutic ...

Ms. Szalavitz is a contributing Opinion writer who covers addiction and public policy. Drug overdose deaths in the United States fell by an estimated 14.5 percent from June 2023 to June 2024 ...

LOS ANGELES—America’s drug crisis has many survivors. Jerry Schlesinger, 72, is among the longest tenured. He tried heroin at 15. Today, he has been sober for two years. In between ...

Among these, 4,321 people used semaglutide, the drug branded under the names Ozempic and Wegovy, and 2,509 people used liraglutide, another drug in the same class.

In the 1990s, overprescribing by doctors, along with aggressive and deceptive drug marketing by pharmaceutical companies, led to a deadly and ongoing opioid epidemic that has killed more than ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other candidates for top health posts are at odds with the drug industry, setting the stage for tense battles over regulatory changes. By Rebecca Robbins Christina Jewett ...