Even after years of warnings, millions of older Americans with dementia are still being prescribed risky brain-altering drugs—often with no clear medical justification. Even after years of clinical ...

Weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro work primarily by reducing hunger. They mimic a hormone the body ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday announced an agreement with two major drugmakers to cut the cost of some of their weight-loss medications in what marks the latest development in his ...

Everywhere you look, there is a great deal of fear about the possibility of developing dementia as you get older. A new study ...

The following guide offers a detailed overview of several classes of medications that research links to a higher risk of dementia. You will find what these drugs treat, the evidence connecting them to ...

Some Medicare enrollees may soon be able to access super-popular drugs for obesity under a voluntary model program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Tuesday. Eligible ...

New research suggests Alzheimer’s may start far earlier than previously thought, driven by a hidden toxic protein in the brain. Scientists found that an experimental drug, NU-9, blocks this early ...

A shaky economy, wider adoption of weight-loss medication, and changing tastes seem to conspire against some food makers. A strained economy, the growing number of people on weight-loss drugs and ...

Weight-loss pills that harness the same mechanism as the wildly popular drugs Wegovy and Ozempic are coming to the U.S. On Monday Novo Nordisk announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a pill version of Wegovy, Novo Nordisk’s blockbuster weight loss drug. The Wegovy pill, as it’s called, is first oral version of a GLP-1 drug that ...

The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a daily pill version of Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy, introducing a new option for how patients can take medicines in a class of drugs ...

An oral formulation of semaglutide has received United States Food and Drug Administration approval for a new drug or biologic under the Prescription Drug User Fee Act. Researchers found that oral ...