UnitedHealth Group's multibillion-dollar pharmacy benefit manager, Optum Rx, is suing five Kentucky counties in an attempt to force them out of national opioid litigation against the company.

Two new studies from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have investigated how mutations that occur in muscles and blood vessels over time can affect aging.

Researchers have shown that there is strong evidence that e-cigarette use may act as a gateway to cigarette smoking and other ...

Amylin, a hormone that controls appetite and blood sugar by activating three different receptors in the brain, could be the ...

Mass General Brigham researchers identified seven molecules in the blood linked to excessive daytime sleepiness, including ...

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Munich, Germany, use 4 PIPETBOY GENIUS serological pipet ...

A diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids, found predominantly in fish oils, may help ward off the development of short sightedness ...

Teaching about periods in schools is still too focused on basic biological facts with insufficient information around how ...

Extreme weather events are increasingly recognized as adverse childhood experiences (E-ACEs) that disrupt brain development, ...

Dining under palm trees on a patio at Mar-a-Lago in December, President-elect Donald Trump reassured chief executives at pharmaceutical giants Eli Lilly and Pfizer that anti-vaccine activist Robert F.

Researchers at the University of Missouri are on a mission to help patients recover from hip surgery with less pain, and they ...

A week of fasting alters the gut microbiome in type 1 diabetes, aligning it with healthy profiles and enhancing cholesterol and weight management.