Germanic warriors in the Roman era may have used drugs in battle
Hundreds of tiny tools attached to battle belts suggest ancient barbarians used stimulants for war.
Tag: drug
The Pentagon is investing in a drug that can make you temporarily hotter
The drug can help people quickly adapt to the frigid temperatures.
The pharmanauts: how will astronauts produce drugs on deep space missions?
Scientists have come up with some pretty inventive ways to produce interstellar drugs -- because astronauts will likely need them.
Drug prices in the US rose three times faster than inflation over the last decade
Drug prices have gone up a lot in the last decade, many times faster than inflation, despite the products having ...
First antiviral drug approved to fight novel coronavirus
Three potential anti-COVID19 medicines have been officially announced by Chinese authorities.
Dolphins are seeing a rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and it’s our fault
Antibiotic resistance is reaching dramatic levels in some wild ecosystems, reports a study on bottlenose dolphins living in Florida's Indian ...
US FDA approves new treatment for drug-resistant TB
Few people affected by drug-resistant survive TB but new treatments offer a silver lining.
Medicinal plants used in the Civil War can stomp our modern antibiotic-resistant germs
Old tricks, new ways to implement them.
Hallucinations may be the side effect of over-processing in brain’s visual center
Neurons in the visual cortex actually fire less when met with psychedelic substances.
Drug cocktails can almost double lifespan — in worms and fruit flies, so far
The findings suggest that the mechanism would probably work on humans too.
Combining antibiotics may be more effective, new study suggests
The whole can be greater or smaller than the sum of its parts.
The CDC thwarted 220 cases of pathogens with ‘unusual’ antibiotic resistance last year alone
If there's something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call? It better be the CDC.
New method developed to stop bacteria from sharing antibiotic resistance genes
No multiplayer-evolution any longer, pleasethankyou!
Marijuana Scientists Are Getting High Wages
By the year 2020, it is predicted the marijuana science industry will be employing about 300,000 individuals.
Retails drug price varied by more than 600% among 10 high-income countries
Average expenditures are lower among single-payer financing systems, the study found.
For $20, high school students create medicine which sells for between $35,000 and $110,000
We all know drugs are overpriced, but do you have any idea just how overpriced they are?
Scientists film bacteria becoming virtually drug-immune — and it took them only 10 days
A fascinating glimpse at how life overcomes adversity.
Untreatable bacteria identified in the US
A strain of E. coli resistant to last-resort antibiotics has been identified on United States soil for the first time. ...
Acetaminophen affects the ability to detect errors
Acetaminophen, commonly sold as Tylenol or Paracetamol may affect our ability to solve errors, a new study has found. The ...
A drug used for decades for liver diseases could effectively slow down Parkinson’s
It seems like re-purposing drugs can be a gold mine for future drug development. Now, scientists have discovered that a ...
Use of Psychedelics Could Reduce Suicide Rates
Suicide rates have generally remained the same for decades, with slight increases in some areas of the world. Basically, scientists ...
Common Anti-Anxiety drug wakes man up from coma
A patient who has been in a near-vegetative state for two years has been awaken after receiving a common anti-anxiety ...
No, people, Oreos are not as addictive as drugs!
A recent study was picked up a lot by the media, claiming that "Oreos are as addictive as drugs". Just ...
An analgesic molecule discovered in its natural state in Africa
Nauclea latifolia (also know as the pin cushion tree) is a small shrub, relatively common, used in traditional medicine throughout ...
