The FDA has approved Exdensur (depemokimab-ulaa) as an add-on maintenance treatment for people with severe asthma.

Across social media and encrypted messaging apps, a new frontier of weight loss is unfolding in real time, with people sourcing and injecting an experimental drug that regulators have not yet approved.

Lerodalcibep-liga, a once-monthly PCSK9 inhibitor, significantly reduces LDL-C in hypercholesterolemia, including HeFH, with FDA approval for subcutaneous use. The LIBerate Program showed sustained LDL-C reductions of 60% or greater in high-risk CVD patients and 50% in HeFH, with good tolerability.

The weight-loss drug market is surging, with biotech firms racing to win share in a sector dominated by Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly. Analysts forecast the industry will generate about $150 billion in annual sales in the next decade.

Unregulated peptide injections have become popular in wellness circles, used for everything from building muscle mass to slowing aging.

Given that HCV is a bloodborne virus, any circumstance that promotes continued drug injection—including failure to prevent or diagnose and adequately treat substance use disorders—can result in persistent transmission of this virus and other bloodborne ...

LEBANON, Ohio (AP) — The twice-arrested heroin user listened nervously as the judge reviewed her record, then offered a deal he thinks could save her life. “You’re not a criminal, you’re an addict,” Judge Robert Peeler told Cynthia Fugate.

The idea for this post was initiated when I read a snippet in The Fortean Times about a 34-year old man from New York who injected cocaine into his penis and ended up with gangrene and further medical complications. It turns out that this report was based ...

This drug company says an injection can get rid of your double chin. — -- A new drug promises to get rid of double chins without surgery, and it's nearing federal approval. The drug, an injectable substance that dissolves fat under the chin, was ...