Regulators at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, the first daily oral medication to treat obesity. The ...

Food and Drug Administration’s approval hands drugmaker Novo Nordisk an edge in the race to market an obesity pill US regulators on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster ...

Some tout a daily semaglutide pill as a game-changer for weight-loss treatment. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first GLP-1 pill for weight loss and maintenance. Drugmaker Novo ...

Weight-loss pills that harness the same mechanism as the wildly popular drugs Wegovy and Ozempic are coming to the U.S. On Monday Novo Nordisk announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a pill version of Wegovy, Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster weight loss drug. The Wegovy pill, as it’s called, is first oral version of a GLP-1 drug that ...

Irwin Goldstein, MD, director of San Diego Sexual Medicine, takes testosterone replacement therapy, just like many of his patients. Over more than two decades, he’s tried it all—shots, pellets, gels, ...

Danielle Gansky was 7 years old when an administrator at her upscale private girls’ school in suburban Philadelphia flagged problems with her academic performance. She was a bubbly and creative kid, ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. NEW ORLEANS — A pill designed to further lower ...

The morning-after pill helps prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex, but its efficacy differs depending on the user's body mass and the timing of when they take the medication. When you purchase ...

The pill showed "significant" reductions in airway obstruction after 26 weeks. The first oral pill for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) could be around the corner after pharmaceutical company Apnimed Inc ...

The most commonly used and prescribed birth control pill in the U.S. was classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) at the World Health Organization (WHO) as carcinogenic. In ...

Popular weight-loss and type 2 diabetes drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic are typically taken as self-administered injections—a bearable albeit unpleasant jab to the abdomen or thigh. But drug ...