Harvard Medical School

Researchers Now Understand How a New Class of Antivirals Works

Members of a new class of antivirals are being tested in U.S. clinical trials, and one has gained approval in Japan, but how ...

Sensor lights up to reveal scopolamine, a common substance used for sexual assault

A team from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) has led the development of a new sensor capable of quickly and ...
C&EN

AI screening method to speed up drug discovery

Virtual screen of 10,000 proteins and 500 million compounds takes just a day, delivers 2 million small-molecule hits ...

Novo Nordisk: A Sell As Oral Wegovy Pressures Margins

Novo Nordisk’s oral Wegovy gets FDA approval, but rising costs and competition threaten profits. Learn why analysts rate NVO ...
news.ucsb.edu

AI helps explain how covert attention works and uncovers new neuron types

Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes — think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke — is a behavior known as covert attention. We do it all the time, but little ...
Medical Xpress

AI helps explain how covert attention works and uncovers new neuron types

However, this work proves that there is far more to covert attention than previously thought. Not only have the researchers shown that there are emergent attentional behaviors, they also show that ...
Psychology Today

The New Diet Drugs vs. Exercise: Which Works Better?

The new weight-reduction drugs have revolutionized our approach to weight control. The drugs have many overlapping actions in the brain and body, however, in general they all mimic the actions of ...
Fox Business

Major weight loss, pain relief seen with Eli Lilly's next-gen drug in late-stage trial

A new weight-loss drug that Eli Lilly is testing is helping patients in a late-stage trial lose an average of 28.7% of their body weight and offered "substantial" relief from osteoarthritis pain. In ...
Oregonian

Dear Doctor: SSRIs are commonly used drugs for mental health problems. Here’s how they work

DEAR DR. ROACH: In a recent column, you mentioned a class of drugs called SNRIs for pain. I know about SSRIs for depression. What are SNRIs? -- D.S. ANSWER: SSRIs, the selective serotonin reuptake ...
SFGate

How does Narcan work? Mapping how it reverses opioid overdose can provide a molecular blueprint for more effective drugs

(THE CONVERSATION) Naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, is one of the most important drugs in the United States’ fight against the opioid crisis. It reverses an opioid overdose nearly ...
The Hill

The war on drugs was always a war on people — that’s why it doesn’t work

Last month, the U.S. Senate narrowly rejected a bipartisan resolution recently that would have prevented the Trump administration from launching military strikes in Venezuela without congressional ...
Bloomberg L.P.

China Adds Tax to Condoms as It Works to Boost Birth Rates

China will impose a value-added tax on contraceptive drugs and devices — including condoms — for the first time in three decades, its latest bid to reverse plunging birth rates that threaten to ...