AstraZeneca's first-in-class severe asthma therapy Tezspire has been approved in the EU in a new pen injector formulation suitable for administration by patients themselves. The green light for the ...

Eli Lilly is just weeks away from launching Mounjaro in the UK, after getting approval from medicines regulator, the MHRA, for a new formulation of the drug as a treatment for diabetes and obesity.

Ozempic has become so embedded in global culture that “Ozempic face” was shortlisted for a prominent dictionary’s word of the year in 2025. Ozempic isn’t the only drug that mimics the natural GLP-1 ...

A nurse went blind in one eye after she left her daily contact lenses in for up to two weeks at a time. Mum-of-four Katie Carrington, 36, started wearing daily disposable lenses at age 17 and got into ...

On November 2, 1988, graduate student Robert Morris released a self-replicating program into the early Internet. Within 24 hours, the Morris worm had infected roughly 10 percent of all connected ...

A 'stay at home' update has been released by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) as people experiencing six symptoms are being urged to refrain from going out whilst unwell. The advisory was ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

This article was reviewed by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA. Semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, is a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist taken as a once-weekly ...