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The World Health Organization announced on Friday that it added GLP-1 weight loss drugs to the Essential Medicines list, which should improve access to the treatments in poorer countries. Suggested Reading The United Nations organization also added Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ Trikafta, a costly combination therapy for cystic fibrosis, and Merck’s top-selling cancer immunotherapy drug Keytruda for

Science & Nature A research team from The University of Osaka and the Institute of Science Tokyo has developed a class of mRNA medicines...

In The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton wrote about killer alien space crystals that are (spoiler alert) ultimately stymied by Earth’s breadth of pH values. In reality, crystals grown in space could be key to a new generation of cancer-fighting treatments that save lives, not threaten them. Colorado-based startup Sierra Space is nearly ready to launch

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Researchers at UC San Francisco and Gladstone Institutes developed new antiviral drug candidates that outperformed Paxlovid against SARS-CoV-2 and MERS in preclinical testing, offering hope for future pandemic preparedness. Despite their promise, funding cuts threaten the advancement of these compounds, which uniquely target viral enzymes without harming human proteins. The Antiviral Drug Discovery (AViDD) Center

A quartet of new medications may improve care of patients with hypertension, urinary tract infections (UTIs), hot flashes, and liver disease, said Gerald W. Smetana, MD, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, in a presentation at the American College of Physicians (ACP-IM) Internal Medicine Meeting 2025. Many

Science & Nature Hint: It's all in the suffix. The post How prescription drugs get their names appeared first on Popular Science...Read MoreJulia Craven

In This Story GLP-1 drugs are driving down grocery spending , according to a new study from Cornell’s SC Johnson College of Business and consumer data firm Numerator. Suggested Reading Investors to AI firms: ‘Show me the money’—Why ROI will dominate 2025 Suggested Reading The study, which analyzed U.S. household transaction data over two years