A new hormone shot could be your solution to getting sober faster. In a study published Tuesday in the journal Cell Metabolism, researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern suggested that the ...

If you give a mouse a cookie, legend has it that a cascade of desires from the mouse will follow. But if you give the mouse a shot of a hormone, new research suggests it will fare better than its ...

For many, exercise is a means to an end, namely better health – and in a perfect world, perhaps there would be a way to skip that middle step with some sort of pill or injection. Now scientists at the ...

A hormone treatment has been shown to lower obese individuals’ glucose levels and weight, and may prove a viable alternative to bariatric surgery. In a trial of obese, prediabetic patients, subjects ...

Giving overweight people an extra dose of a hormone that tells the brain when to stop eating appears to curb their appetites by nearly a third, pointing to a potential new treatment for obesity. The ...

Self-administered subcutaneous injections of a substance called oxyntomodulin lead to weight loss and an apparent reduction in fat deposits, UK researchers report. “Oxyntomodulin is a natural hormone, ...

In 2002, one out every eight babies was born prematurely. Doctors say many complications can occur when a baby arrives too early. Hormone injections may help women carry their babies to full term.

Daily hormone injections helped dieters keep weight off in a study that helped shed light on why it is so easy to gain weight and so hard to keep it off, researchers said on Thursday. Their study ...

Weekly or fortnightly injections of a hormone that stimulates the thyroid gland can also strengthen bones in rodents, researchers have found. The hormone, called thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), is ...

July 8, 2002 — The J-Tip, a needle-free device using compressed carbon dioxide to propel gonadotropins through the skin, was well-tolerated by women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) and was ...

Five people appear to have developed Alzheimer’s disease after receiving growth hormones from deceased donors’ brains as children. Although based on a small group of people, this suggests that the ...