The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Neurocrine Biosciences' drug to treat a type of genetic disorder, the ...

Research from Washington University shows that glioblastoma, a type of brain cancer, has its own internal clock that ...

New research shows that glioblastoma has an internal clock and syncs its daily rhythms to match -- and take advantage of -- the rhythms of its host. In this way, brain tumors grow in response to the ...

Over a decade into selling Korlym to treat endogenous hypercortisolism, also known as Cushing syndrome, Corcept Therapeutics ...

Corcept Therapeutics’ selective cortisol modulator failed to slow the progress of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in a ...

Queensland researchers have solved the century-old mystery of why patients who suffer severe spinal cord and brain injuries ...

Anti-seizure medications, which are also called anticonvulsants or anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs), are medications used to prevent seizures for people who have epilepsy. All AEDs are available only by ...

“Cortisol is a life sustaining hormone. We cannot survive without cortisol,” Dr. Anjanette Tan, an endocrinologist at the ...

I got a blood test to figure out my cortisol levels and learned a lot about stress in the process. Anna Gragert (she/her/hers) was previously the lifestyle editor at HelloGiggles, deputy editor at ...

Treatment at the point of an exacerbation for this type of asthma has barely changed for over fifty years, with steroid drugs being the mainstay of medication. Steroids such as prednisolone can ...