Pediatrician Group Recommends Decriminalizing Marijuana For Youngsters
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Synthetic versions of opiates like morphine and heroin have been prohibitively expensive to make, so the drugs are still made the old-fashioned way, from opium poppies. Now…
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Viagra first hit the market 17 years ago as a treatment for erectile dysfunction. In all that time, the FDA hasn't approved a comparable drug for women's sexual…
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Scientists Separate Marijuana's Highs From Its Medical Lows
Medical marijuanaDreamstimeMarijuana is getting a lot of love lately, from newly legal recreational users in a few American states, and doctors alike. Researchers are uncovering lots of ways in which...
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Chemical In Marijuana Could Build Strong Bones
MarijuanaDank Depot/ Flickr CC By 2.0 (with modification)Step aside milk. Weed could be could be the next big thing in bone health.Marijuana affects our bodies in a lot of different ways, for example...
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Suspected Meth Lab Explodes In U.S. Government Building
The Advanced Measurement Laboratory on the NIST campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland.Gail Porter via Wikimedia CommonsYesterday, Congress requested more information about a July 18 explosion in one of the...
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How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Drugs Better and Faster
When researchers used to try to diagnose and treat diseases, they would often search for one mutation on a single gene that was causing the problem. Or maybe they would look for average effects of a...
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Weed Delivery Service Will Fly Drugs To Customers Via Drone
Trees Delivery DroneScreenshot by author, from YouTubeTrees is a Bay-area startup that combines the novelty of selling box kits with the functionality of California’s medical marijuana industry and the...
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Kim Kardashian’s Instagram Is Only The Latest Victim Of FDA Campaign
Kim KardashianEva Rinaldi/ Flickr CC By SA-20Reality TV star Kim Kardashian was recently forced by the FDA to take down a misleading Instagram post about a drug, but the FDA has been cracking down on...
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Home-Brewed Synthetic Opioids Are Finally A Reality
Yeast growing in a petri dishStephanie GalaniePain-relieving opioids, like morphine or codeine, are important for medical purposes. The drugs have been around for millennia however even today they are...
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Bacteria With Synthetic DNA Create Protein Never Found In Nature
Court Turner, the president of Synthorx, left, looks at the results from an experiment.SynthorxYour DNA, like that of everything else on the planet, is made of four nucleotides: A, C, G, and T. These...
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3D Printed Fish Can Detect And Remove Toxins From Liquid
MicrofishW. Zhu and J. Li, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering3D printed Microfish glow red in the presence of a toxin.We all know that eating fish is good for your health, but what about fish...
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