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People who got the injection, retatrutide, lost 28 percent of their body weight on average after 80 weeks, Eli Lilly said.

Bones discovered at an archaeological site in Cyprus suggest the birds have been strutting around human settlements since at least 1400 B.C.

Aid cuts by the Trump administration have shut down crucial disease surveillance networks and medical supply chains in East Africa.

To some Africans, the claim that the continent's largest health agency had already bungled its response scratched a familiar wound.

The prehistoric hominins "apparently were very adept at what we would consider invasive medicine," said the anthropologist John Olsen.

The state is leading the country's reckoning with PFAS. The outcome of its suit against the federal government will affect how courts treat more than 15,000 other claims nationwide.

President Trump announced the addition of 600 medicines to his online drugstore as he appeals to Americans concerned about high drug prices and affordability.

Early surveillance and testing failed to identify Bundibugyo, a rare species of Ebola responsible for the current outbreak.

Louisiana wants the Food and Drug Administration to curtail access to the medication. Doing so could cost Republicans at the polls.

Doctor's visits for children's anxiety rose by more than 250 percent over 10 years, according to a study of nearly two million children.