From chronic disease management to fertility treatments and hormone therapies, millions of patients are now expected to ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers say they have uncovered more evidence to support a controversial hypothesis that sticky proteins that are a signature of Alzheimer’s disease can be transmitted from person to person ...

Are you somebody who is focused on trying to lose weight, but for some reason can’t? There could be several reasons for what’s stopping you from losing weight. Ndidiamaka Okpareke, president and owner ...

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 ...