The Wegovy pill is expected to hit the market in January, joining injectable GLP-1 drugs that have transformed obesity treatment. One form you swallow, the other you inject. What else is different?

A new weight loss injection dubbed GEP44 is being trialed and could be available by the end of 2023. It is said to work in a similar way to Wegovy and Ozempic but much safer. Both Wegovy and Ozempic ...

European countries could stretch out limited supplies of the monkeypox vaccine by administering smaller doses of the shot, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Friday. The agency's advice is in ...

A cortisone shot is an injection containing a steroid. A person with hip pain due to injury or disease may receive a cortisone shot to help treat pain and swelling in the hip joint. A cortisone shot ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* server, researchers at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases evaluated the immunogenicity of a severe acute respiratory ...

For patients who rely on monoclonal antibodies and other biologic drugs, treatment often means hours tethered to an IV pole while a clear bag slowly empties into a vein. A new generation of ...

A US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigation of injection-site necrosis in some people who received the 23-valent pneumococcal vaccine has concluded that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh ...

Prophylactic intramuscular vitamin K administration in newborns decreased from 2017 to 2024, according to a recent research ...

The new intradermal technique requires just a fraction of a vaccine per shot. Some states and jurisdictions are hitting early bumps in their rollout of the U.S. government's new approach to expand ...

A once-weekly insulin formulation called icodec performed just as well as daily doses of the insulin degludec, Phase 3 clinical trial results show. Photo by peter-facebook/Pixabay People with Type 2 ...

As with most treatments, cortisone injections can have side effects. These can include various kinds of headaches. Cortisone is a type of molecule known as a corticosteroid, or steroid for short.

On Tuesday, June 4 at 7 p.m., Dr. Jeffrey Heftler, an interventional physiatrist in practice at ONS (Orthopaedic and Neurosurgery Specialists) in Greenwich, will present a talk, "Treating Sports ...