Bill introduced in NC General Assembly to establish task force on psychedlic medicine and mental health
The bill, titled "An Act to Establish the North Carolina Mental Health and Psychedelic Medicine Task Force" or the ...
Costly GLP-1 drug use for wight loss has soared, study reports
The number of Americans taking cutting-edge weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound has skyrocketed in recent ...
Bipartisan bill to study medical use of psychedelics filed in North Carolina Senate
A bill being considered in the North Carolina State Senate would commit time and money to the study of psychoactive chemicals ...
Anthropocene Magazine5h
Increased access to medications may be a public health good—but it’s a big climate challenge
A massive global analysis reveals pharmaceuticals as the most carbon-intensive portion of the global health care system ...
BioPharma Dive21h
Cell, gene therapy makers lose a champion at FDA with exit of Peter Marks
Marks’ resignation leaves the field without a regulator many view as “integral” to its progress over the last decade.
C&EN23h
Podcast: Turning tides for endotoxin testing
In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN assistant editor Laurel Oldach about the use of horseshoe crab blood in pharmaceutical endotoxin testing, the challenges of ...
The Imprint1d
Prescribing Psychiatric Drugs to California Foster Youth: ‘It’s the Job of All Who Are Involved’
Antipsychotics prescribed to foster youth in California have shown a remarkable decline in the years since reform measures ...
ZME Science1d
A Gene-Edited Pig Liver Was Hooked to a Human for 10 Days and It Actually Worked
What makes this new study different is the duration and depth of analysis. The liver was fully vascularized and remained ...
Artificial sweetener found in diet drinks linked to brain changes that increase appetite, study finds
"Sucralose activates the area in the brain that regulates hunger, and that activation, in turn, is linked to greater ratings ...
New Drug Turns Human Blood Into Mosquito-Killing Weapon
Nitisinone, a drug for rare diseases, kills mosquitoes when present in human blood and may become a new tool to fight malaria ...
To fight malaria, scientists want to poison mosquitoes—with human blood
Low doses of a drug already approved for treating rare genetic conditions in humans kills mosquitoes dead. Scientists say it ...
MIT Technology Review7d
Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine
It may be disturbing to characterize human bodies in such commodifying terms, but the unavoidable reality is that human ...