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Game-changing GLP-1 agonist drugs are a step closer to being available in oral pill form, with AstraZeneca revealing "encouraging data" from the Phase I safety and tolerability trial of its once ...

Can you recommend some good pill boxes and medication reminding devices? I’ve recently started taking several new prescription medications along with some vitamins I normally take and need to get a ...

Varenicline is a pill that works differently to gums and patches because it does not contain nicotine. Instead the daily tablet gets in the way of nicotine in the brain so you don't enjoy it as ...

A daily pill that triples the odds of quitting smoking will be offered on the NHS in a bid to save thousands of lives. Amanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England, hailed the drug as a ...

A body discovered Saturday morning in the Busse Woods Forest Preserve in northern Cook County has been identified as a missing 23-year-old woman, police said. According to Mount Prospect police ...

Nearly seven in ten Brits have reported being targeted by scammers. Expert issues advice on how to identify scam calls. Phone scams have unfortunately become an all too common part of modern life.

Plan B alternatives include Ella (ulipristal acetate), copper intrauterine device (IUD), and combined hormonal birth control pills. Plan B, also known as the "morning-after pill." It uses a ...

The driver, identified as 21-year-old Sender Soto-Veliz, was arrested and charged with tampering with evidence and hindering prosecution in the second degree. Soto-Veliz was charged with tampering ...

Lisbon ― State police have identified the victim in Monday’s fatal pedestrian accident in Lisbon as 57-year-old Richard Dupont of Jewett City. Dupont was killed when he was struck by a pickup ...

Norwich ― The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner confirmed on Monday that the death of a 7-year-old girl who died in an Oct. 15 fire was accidental. Rylee Boldizar died from smoke inhalation ...

The NHS will start offering an "improved" stop smoking pill to tens of thousands of people in England who want to quit cigarettes. Varenicline, a daily tablet given over a few months, is as ...