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hormone

[hawr-mohn] / ˈhɔr moʊn /


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The Nobel season opens Monday with the medicine prize, which experts say could go to research into the GLP-1 appetite-regulating hormone behind weight-loss drugs like Ozempic.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

The experimental injection, eloralintide, which mimics a hormone called amylin that helps signal fullness after eating, was studied in combination with a Zepbound shot in patients with Type 2 diabetes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Food and Drug Administration approved a generic competitor to its flagship hormone drug earlier than expected.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

A lot of the so-called "problems" during teenage years are related to androgens, a hormone which, although present in girls, is more prevalent in boys.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

The physiological effect of DDD is probably unique among insecticides, for it destroys part of the adrenal gland — the cells of the outer layer known as the adrenal cortex, which secretes the hormone cortin.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

The injectable drug mimics the body’s somatostatin hormone to treat disorders like slow-growing tumors and the overproduction of growth hormones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Because the device samples hormones from the skin, participants were able to continue with their usual activities, including sleeping at night, while researchers collected detailed hormone data.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

“Basically, I became another person,” she said, adding that her hormones felt out of whack.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Waiting around for late starts after long-running previous matches can disrupt players' warm-up routines, energy management, eating schedule, body temperature and hormones.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

You could even start before you were eighteen with pills called androgen blockers that stopped the boy hormones already inside you from turning your body into a man's.

From "George" by Alex Gino




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