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Brilliant 10: Kathryn Whitehead Designs Drugs To Wipe Out Disease
Kathryn WhiteheadAlexander WellsThe human body is difficult territory to conquer, even for medicine: Many drugs have to enter the bloodstream, bypass the immune system, and arrive at a precise location...
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CVS Expands Over-The-Counter Sales Of Heroin Antidote
NaloxoneWikimedia User intropinMega-pharmacy chain CVS announced Wednesday that it will start selling naloxone without a prescription in 12 new states. Previously, only customers in Rhode Island and...
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What Would You Pay To Save Your Life?
Toxoplasma gondiiTotodu74/Wikimedia Commons CC By SA 2.0According to the CDC, more than 60 million people in the United States may be infected with the Toxoplasma parasite, which is spread through cat...
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Disguising Drugs As Blood Cells To Kill Cancer
Platelets under a scanning electron microscopePerelman School of Medicine, University of PennsylvaniaIt’s notoriously difficult to direct cancer drugs to only the cells you want to target—they often...
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In Painkiller Trials, Placebo Effect Is Becoming More Powerful
Painkillers: are they really working, or is your brain just telling you they are?Eric Norris via Flickr, CC by 2.0Painkiller manufacturers are confused. Their drugs have maintained the same efficacy at...
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Speedy Submarine Is Made Of A Single Molecule
Loïc Samuel/Rice UniversityMolecular SubmarineIn the nearly 400 years since the first submarine was invented, these underwater machines have become incredibly sophisticated. They're armed and they're...
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Brewing A Better Painkiller
© Science Photo Library/Alamy Stock PhotoThis past August, Stanford bioengineer Christina Smolke announced a first: Her team used brewer’s yeast—the stuff in beer—to produce a precursor to oxycodone...
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A Micrometer Ultrasonic Gun To Deliver Medicine More Effectively
Fernando Soto, Aida Martin, Stuart Ibsen, Mukanth Vaidyanathan, Victor Garcia-Gradilla, Yair Levin, Alberto Escarpa, Sadik C. Esener, and Joseph WangMicrocannonPills are a clumsy way to deliver drugs....
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Why Are Scientists SO Excited About This New Cancer Drug?
National Cancer Institute via Wikimedia CommonsCell deathA cancer cell undergoing the first stage of scheduled cell death. White blood cells with the BCL-2 protein resist this, building up in the...
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Optogenetics Make Mouse Brains Forget Drug Associations
DEA Drug Enforcement Agency via Wikimedia CommonsResearchers trained mice to associate a particular space with cocaine, a highly addictive drug, shown above.Combatting an addiction is far more...
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FDA Allows Company To Market Drug For Off-Label Use
Health Some experts predict that more companies will try to do the same The FDA has agreed to allow drug company Amarin to market its drug for off label use.
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Lifelong Marijuana Use Correlated With Troubled Middle Age
Health The cause and effect might not be so straightforward Frequent and heavy marijuana use over the course of several years has been correlated to a drop in socioeconomic class and greater personal...
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What Is A Biosimilar Drug?
Health Here’s why you’ll be seeing that word a lot in the future Earlier this month, the FDA approved a biosimilar drug called Inflectra, which could be used to treat a handful of inflammatory...
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DEA Approves First Trial Of Medical Marijuana For PTSD
Health The study will focus on war veterans with a chronic form of the condition DEA Approves First-Ever Trial Of Medical Marijuana For PTSD.
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Is The U.S. Government About To Re-Classify Marijuana?
Health A reported DEA email suggests it might on Thursday The Drug Enforcement Administration will make a major announcement tomorrow regarding marijuana. Lawmakers have been awaiting a decision from...
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The Man Who Smuggles Nanodrugs Past The Body's Defenses
Health Liangfang Zhang is one of the 10 most brilliant people of 2016 Liangfang Zhang is one of the 10 most brilliant people of 2016…
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This Is Your Brain On The Hallucinogenic Drug Ayahuasca
Health What a trip ASAP Science a YouTube Channel created by Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown, just posted this interesting video looking into how the drug ayahuasca actually affects parts of…
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This "Just Add Water" Chemistry Kit Can Create On-Demand Drugs And Vaccines
Health To help save this world and the next Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering are working on a system that could allow for inexpensive, rapid manufacturing...
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How to conduct human drug trials without needing any pesky humans
Health Meet the body on a chip A tiny replica body-on-a-chip could be a safer, more accurate testing ground for new drugs…
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MDMA could be on the market legally by 2021
Health Medical ecstasy isn't far off The FDA has approved MDMA for use in large-scale clinical trials for PTSD—a move that could set the stage for making the compound legally available as a new medicine.
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