Category Health

Intense Heat

How intense heat impacts patients and medicines

Here’s what you need to know about hot weather medications: Medicines used to treat common ailments can make patients more sensitive to heat by reducing their body’s ability to sweat and circulate blood in response to high temperatures. Heat waves…

New drug

New drug extends lifespan, fights aging, cancer

The researchers injected 75-week-old mice with an anti-IL-11 antibody, which neutralized the harmful effects of IL-11. Researchers from the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Medical Sciences and Imperial College London have inhibited a protein called IL-11 that can help extend…

New medicine

New medicine increases lifespan, fights aging and cancer

To mitigate the harmful effects of IL-11, the researchers injected 75-week-old mice with an anti-IL-11 antibody. Scientists at Imperial College London and the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Medical Sciences have blocked IL-11, a protein that can help extend the…

Pfizer

Pfizer revives weight-loss medication

Pfizer ( PFE.N ), which discontinued a twice-daily version of its weight loss drug danuglipron late last year, said on Thursday it will begin clinical trials of a modified once-daily version of the drug later this year. The new drug…