The most prescribed weight-loss drugs on the market work by mimicking a single gut hormone. A hybrid molecule described in a ...

A single molecule that tricks its way into fat cells by mimicking a gut hormone, then releases a second drug once inside, has ...

For decades, physicians and scientists thought metformin, the leading Type 2 diabetes medication taken by millions worldwide, ...

A reader asked me about a concrete structure at Kawana­nakoa Intermediate School. It appears to have once been a fountain. I ...

One in eight American adults is taking GLP-1s. What does that mean for how we relate to our food, bodies and one another?

Carbohydrates often get a lot of attention in conversations about health, weight loss, and blood sugar. Some people believe carbs are the enemy. Others believe they are an essential energy source that ...

This disruption has wide-ranging effects. When SIRT1 is suppressed, the liver shifts toward storing fat instead of burning it ...

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While receiving treatment at QA he chose to do what he could to help people suffering from cancer in the future by taking ...

For decades, pancreatic cancer patients have faced some of the bleakest odds in medicine. Treatments barely moved the needle.

Patients — and their doctors — have been desperate for a more effective pancreatic cancer treatment for decades. Now one ...

A man who thought his stomach pain was due to gallstones died eight months later after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer ...