Pharmacy

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New Pill Cuts 'Bad' Cholesterol by 60% in Landmark Trial Health

New Pill Cuts 'Bad' Cholesterol by 60% in Landmark Trial

Merck's experimental oral PCSK9 inhibitor enlicitide slashed LDL cholesterol by up to 60% in a phase 3 trial of nearly 3,000 patients, matching inject...

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How PCSK9 Inhibitors Lower Cholesterol—and Why Health

How PCSK9 Inhibitors Lower Cholesterol—and Why

PCSK9 inhibitors represent a powerful class of cholesterol-lowering drugs that work by preserving the liver's ability to clear LDL from the bloodstrea...

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How NIH Funding Works—and Why It Matters Science

How NIH Funding Works—and Why It Matters

The National Institutes of Health funds nearly $48 billion in medical research annually through a rigorous peer-review grant system. Here is how the p...

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What Is Hemozoin and How It Powers Malaria Parasites Science

What Is Hemozoin and How It Powers Malaria Parasites

Hemozoin is a tiny iron crystal that malaria parasites produce to survive inside red blood cells. Understanding how it works has led to life-saving dr...

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How the Endocannabinoid System Works—and Why Cannabis Hijacks It Health

How the Endocannabinoid System Works—and Why Cannabis Hijacks It

The endocannabinoid system is the body's master regulator of mood, pain, and appetite. Here's how it works, why cannabis mimics its signals, and what...

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How Oncolytic Viruses Turn Cancer Against Itself Science

How Oncolytic Viruses Turn Cancer Against Itself

Oncolytic virus therapy uses genetically engineered viruses that selectively infect and destroy cancer cells while activating the immune system to hun...

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What Is Sleeping Sickness and How Does It Kill? Health

What Is Sleeping Sickness and How Does It Kill?

African sleeping sickness is a parasitic disease spread by tsetse flies that invades the brain, disrupts sleep cycles, and kills without treatment. He...

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How GLP-1 Drugs Like Ozempic Work—and Why They Matter Health

How GLP-1 Drugs Like Ozempic Work—and Why They Matter

GLP-1 receptor agonists mimic a natural gut hormone to regulate blood sugar, suppress appetite, and promote weight loss. Originally developed for diab...

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Depression Starts With a Cellular Energy Failure Health

Depression Starts With a Cellular Energy Failure

Scientists from the University of Queensland and University of Minnesota have discovered that depression may begin as an energy crisis inside brain an...

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How Gene Therapy Works—and Why It's Changing Medicine Science

How Gene Therapy Works—and Why It's Changing Medicine

Gene therapy targets the genetic root cause of disease by adding, silencing, or editing faulty DNA inside a patient's own cells. Here is how it works,...

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MIT's Gut Protein Discovery May Transform IBD Treatment Science

MIT's Gut Protein Discovery May Transform IBD Treatment

MIT researchers have identified intelectin-2, a protein with a dual role in gut defense — it reinforces the intestinal mucus barrier and directly kill...

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Nvidia GTC 2026: Jensen Huang Bets Big on Physical AI Technology

Nvidia GTC 2026: Jensen Huang Bets Big on Physical AI

At its annual GTC conference in San Jose, Nvidia unveiled the Vera Rubin and Feynman GPU platforms, declared the autonomous vehicle revolution has beg...

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