Medically reviewed by Mary Choy, PharmD Your kidneys may be small in size, but they play an important role in the body.

Heart failure is a serious, chronic condition. While medication can help the heart recover and improve its function, this study suggests that the medications themselves may continue to protect the ...

Heart disease patients now have another treatment option. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Alnylam ...

Researchers at Columbia Universityfound that while both drugs effectively lower blood pressure and help prevent heart attacks, strokes, and heart failure, chlorthalidone comes with higher risks of ...

There are early and suggestive data that GLP-1 drugs reduce alcohol cravings. A large cohort of people with alcohol use ...

"ESC 2024: Obesity drugs emerge as attractive tool for heart failure prevention" was originally created and published by ...

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' shares rose more than 10% on Friday after the drugmaker secured U.S. approval for its heart disease drug, setting the stage for the 23-year-old biotech's next phase of growth.

Lexicon's stock rose 60% after securing a potential $1 billion deal with Novo Nordisk for preclinical obesity drug LX9851.

Statins are very cheap and highly effective cholesterol-lowering drugs -- but ... of first and subsequent heart attacks and stroke, and their complications like heart failure, which are extremely ...

The first clinical guidance for cardiogenic shock will be presented at the American College of Cardiology Scientific Session ...

Weed users are much more likely to suffer a heart attack, stroke or other life-threatening heart condition than people who ...

Compared to nonusers, the cannabis group was four times more likely to have a stroke and twice as likely to have heart failure ... as cocaine or other illicit drugs that are not accounted for ...