Osteoarthritis affects around 600 million people globally. It causes pain, stiffness and reduced joint function – most commonly in the knees, hands and hips. There’s currently no cure for ...

Knee osteoarthritis is a complex disease that affects the whole joint, including bone, cartilage, ligaments and muscles. Osteoarthritis is a common cause of pain and movement difficulty, affecting 8.3 ...

While GLP-1 weight loss meds have been a mainstay in pop culture for a few years now, they're potentially about to get even more widespread. Formerly only available as an injection, Wegovy recently ...

THE treatment of mental illness is in the throes of a revolution. For the first time in history, pills and injections (of two inexpensive drugs) are enabling psychiatrists to 1) nip in the bud some ...

The primary difference between the Wegovy pill and the injection is how you take them and how often. The Wegovy pill is a daily tablet you swallow, while the Wegovy injection is a once-weekly shot you ...

GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists) like Ozempic and Wegovy continue to make headlines as more research points to the benefits of taking these medications. Traditionally, patients ...

Kristie Reed, PharmD, oversees emergency, general medical, surgical, psychiatric care, and oncology medication as the pharmacy director of a community hospital. Dr. Reed specializes in IV medications.

IN the course of an investigation of the effect of partial body X-irradiation on collagen metabolism we used thorazine (chlorpromazine) as an aid in immobilizing rats 1. We found quite unexpectedly ...

In an earlier post, I described how in the 1950s Henri Laborit, a French surgeon interested in the use of antihistamines as a treatment for surgical shock, proposed that chlorpromazine might be an ...