FDA OKs putting tracking devices in schizophrenia pills. (Yes. They really did.)
New York Times has the latest high-water mark in our society’s ever-rising tide of irony – an antipsychotic medication that, as paranoid as this sounds, […]
pharmacology
Quickie-prescription startup wants to market stage-fright pills.
Stat News has some weird news at the intersection of business and pharmacology – a new company wants to sell a beta-blocker used for blood […]
FDA labels Ecstasy a “breakthrough therapy,” accelerates testing.
Science magazine celebrates the fast-tracking of studies on MDMA, the once-notorious rave drug that’s now on the verge of being approved to tread PTSD and […]
Your gut bacteria could neutralize your cancer medication.
Nature looks at another way personalized treatments could save lives – by taking into account how different people’s gut bacteria affect drugs differently: Bacteria living […]
New cancer drug fights tumors based on its genes, not its location.
Nature heralds a new, genetic weapon in our arsenal against cancer, be it pancreatic, lung, skin or liver. This is a cancer treatment based on […]
America pushes pot to researchers. (And it’s a good thing.)
Nature examines the recent increase the availability of pot to American researchers: [D]espite the increasing availability of legal marijuana, scientists have been forced to obtain […]
FDA approves anti-addiction implant
PopSci reports on the upper-arm implant that oozes buprenorphine, a drug that suppresses withdrawal symptoms and cuts the craving for opioid addicts: Called Probuphine, the […]
Magic mushrooms against chronic depression.
Nature reports on the first safety study, published in The Lancet, of psilocybin mushrooms as a potent therapy for drug-resistant long-term depression: Researchers from Imperial […]
Prozac is making fish… different.
Discover reports on unanticipated consequences of antidepressants getting into the water and changing animal behavior: [Teresa] Dzieweczynski, a psychologist at the University of New England, […]
We might have gotten MRSA on the run.
Good news from New Scientist – the so-called superbug has met its germ-killing kryptonite: These bacteria are resistant to the most widely used class of […]
Hormone hacking: home-grown gender control.
The Open Source Gendercodes project is planning to take sex hormones out of the pharmaceutical factory and into the kitchens (and gardens) of any transgendered […]
“Last-resort” antibiotic beaten by resistant bugs globally.
New Scientist doesn’t usually hype the headline too much, so one gets concerned when they say that germs can now resist another “last-resort” antibiotic: Bacteria […]
Chickens that lay medicine are here.
Nature reveals the existence of transgenic chickens, modified to produce drugs in their eggs: The drug, Kanuma (sebelipase alfa), is a recombinant human enzyme marketed […]
This yeast makes cannabinoids, no pot plants needed.
The New York Times wouldn’t call it “soylent green buffalo,” but I would. Picture, if you would, vats of yeast engineered to give off THC, […]
Ritual intoxication in the Holy Land
Times of Israel reports on archaelogists puzzling out just *how* high Philistines were getting for religious reasons: In an upcoming symposium in Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, […]