hormone
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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
Enveda said it found the drug by decoding the chemistry released by the body during intense physical activity, identifying a hormone that naturally suppresses appetite.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
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
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
When, for example, couples report feeling indescribably happy in each other’s presence, that’s dopamine, the pleasure hormone, doing its work.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
But the program helped where my cocktail of hormones couldn’t, giving me tools and practices to quiet my mind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Those properties stem from the way the plant's compounds - like 7-Hydroxymitragynine - activate various hormones, including dopamine.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
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
The findings raise the possibility that future testing for primary aldosteronism could rely less on a single blood sample and more on monitoring how hormones change over time.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
“I was always under the impression that men had male hormones and women had female hormones. But everybody has both, apparently.”
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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