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GLP-1 medications have transformed the treatment of obesity, diabetes, and fatty liver disease over the past several years. Drugs sold as Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound can produce substantial weight loss while helping patients control blood sugar

Eli Lilly said Wednesday it is suing six companies selling versions of its experimental weight-loss drug retatrutide, calling it the beginning of a concerted effort to crack down on a vast illicit market

An experimental enzyme significantly reduced fire blight in apple orchard field trials, offering growers a promising new way to fight one of the fruit industry’s most destructive diseases

The pharmaceutical powerhouse Eli Lilly announced Monday that it will give access to the experimental obesity drug, ‌retatrutide, to a limited number of eligible patients before the drug is FDA approved

For most of his life, teenager Connor Dalby could not walk by himself. As a baby, he experienced 50 to 100 seizures per day, his mother, Kelley Del Real, tells KPBS’ Heidi de Marco. Antiseizure drugs offered little relief. He was not expected to live past his fourth birthday due to his extremely rare genetic mutation,…

Pancreatic cancer accounts for 8% of cancer deaths in the United States, and it is challenging to catch pancreatic cancer early . Finding ways to treat and potentially prevent pancreatic cancer is a critical area of research

With Valley fever cases climbing in California, physicians have struggled to treat the increasing number of patients grappling with the deadliest version of the disease. When Valley fever, or coccidioidomycosis, spreads from the lungs, it can cause infected joints, scarred lungs and even deadly meningitis. 

Greta sits in her car and sings to the camera: “Greta, reta, bo, beta, banana, fana, fo, feta, fee, fi, fo, reta, Greta. Trutide.” Cait posts before-and-after pictures—“40 pounds down” and “#jesusloves”—following up with a reading of her favorite psalm. From his bedroom, Gabriel addresses his 462,000 followers about his adventures with low-dose reta—“I think…

An experimental drug might help slow early Alzheimer’s disease in a markedly different way than today’s treatments — by lowering levels of a brain protein called tau, researchers reported Tuesday

An experimental drug might help slow early Alzheimer’s disease in a markedly different way than current treatments — by lowering the brain’s production of a protein called tau