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These four common medicines could help prolong your life

Taking Viagra, HRT, a statin or a painkiller was linked to a slightly lower chance of people dying over a 12-year study, suggesting the drugs may have life-extending properties

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Blood-clotting drug derived from pigs can now be made synthetically

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Experimental weight loss pill seems to be more potent than Ozempic

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Does Viagra ward off Alzheimer’s disease? It’s too soon to say

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2R2AKY2 Advertising for Wegovy (semaglutide) weight loss injections in the New York subway on Sunday, April 30, 2023. (? Richard B. Levine)

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2024 will see a new weight-loss drug that trumps Wegovy and Ozempic

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MRI scans of a healthy brain (left) and a brain with amyloid plaque deposits (right), a sign of Alzhiemer's disease

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2023 saw a cautious hope for Alzheimer’s treatment but doubts remain

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Covid-19 rebound affects 1 in 5 people after taking Paxlovid

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Weight-loss drug Wegovy can avert heart attacks – will this widen use?

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Drug that cuts breast cancer risk set for wider use in UK

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Why is there a shortage of ADHD drugs and what can people do?

Amid a shortage of ADHD medicines in many countries, people may need to ask their doctor for an alternative drug or a reduced dose of their existing treatment

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Potential new medicine can target proteins on cancer cell surfaces

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Aspirin raises the risk of brain bleeds and may not prevent strokes

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The biggest scientific challenges that AI is already helping to crack

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Is Alzheimer’s drug donanemab really a ‘turning point’ for treatment?

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