Melbourne researchers are helping expand options for people with high cholesterol that puts them at risk of heart attack or stroke, including world-first drugs for potentially deadly conditions.

Excess cholesterol is known to form artery-clogging plaques that can lead to stroke, arterial disease, heart attack, and more, making it the focus of many heart health campaigns.

Lilly's drug is the only oral treatment in a field of several injectable therapies being tested to treat high Lp(a), a risk factor for heart disease that affects one in five individuals globally ...

A promising daily tablet is effective at increasing height and improving proportional limb growth in children with achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism, according to a new study. And the ...

A peptide hormone produced in the brain that triggers physiological reproductive responses has been 'hacked' by scientists to form an effective, safe and non-invasive way to treat chronic gut pain. It ...

As millions patients struggled to fill their prescriptions for the new weight loss drugs, many have turned to compounded copies.

Alzheimer's disease—the most common form of dementia—is a progressive neurological disorder that causes brain cells to ...

Fampridine is currently used to improve walking ability in multiple sclerosis. A new study shows that it could also help individuals with reduced working memory, as seen in mental health conditions ...

Weight-loss drugs promise to make the pounds melt away, and beauty products and fillers will erase those fine lines. But do you know what you're getting or where it's coming from?

When pain signals are passed along the nervous system, proteins called calcium channels play a key role. Researchers at , Sweden, have now pinpointed the exact location of a specific calcium channel ...

The Food and Drug Administration has proposed ending the use of oral phenylephrine, a common ingredient found in many cold ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved on Friday a new drug developed by Syndax Pharmaceuticals to treat patients with a ...