Researchers map the peptide behind semaglutide across 25 brain regions in each sex, finding striking differences in ...

Now scientists in Japan believe they may have discovered an important reason why some constipation treatments do not work.

For more than a century, the human appendix has been written off as a biological relic, a shrunken leftover from plant-eating ancestors that serves no real purpose. That view is now outdated. A ...

Most people experience a hernia as a bump under the skin. They occur when an internal organ, most often the small intestine, ...

A second-grade teacher and grandmother experienced ambiguous symptoms like fatigue, back pain and weight loss. They were ...

Areeba Pasha, a 2-year-old girl from Kurla, was unable to eat or drink without vomiting due to a rare combination of situs inversus and duodenal web. .

The drugs have names that sound like small planets: semaglutide, liraglutide, lixisenatide. Collectively, they belong to a class of glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) analogs that has reshaped the ...

From budget hot-dog sausages costing pennies to dry-aged fillet of beef that can set diners back hundreds of pounds, meat - in all its forms - takes pride of place in the diet of millions of people in ...

Researchers create the first sex-specific GLP-1 brain atlas, revealing why weight-loss drugs work differently in men and women.

In this installment in our series about diseases preventable by vaccination, we examine hepatitis A and why protection from ...

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile—commonly known ...

Colorectal cancer rates are rising among young people in the U.S. One woman diagnosed at 32 shares the subtle early symptoms ...