Top doctors raised concerns about domestically made drugs, saying Beijing’s effort to lower costs is sacrificing quality. By Alexandra Stevenson and Zixu Wang Reporting from Hong Kong A rare ...

It’s time to move on from treating heroin as Europe’s main drug problem, according to the head of the European Union’s drugs agency. That’s not to say heroin isn’t still a major problem.

Criticism over how the Chinese government buys drugs for its public health care system has ignited frustration over the quality of medicine. By Alexandra Stevenson and Zixu Wang Reporting from ...

The drug she received — a new kind of analgesic being tested in a clinical trial — eased her discomfort, without the grogginess or nausea of opioids. “I felt very lucid,” says Vairin ...

(Beyond Pesticides, January 31, 2025) A recent cross-sectional study in Heliyon highlights the link between sleep disorders in Thai farmers and pesticide exposure. The authors find pesticide exposure ...

The authors surveyed nearly 350 people about how many attempts it took to quit a substance before they were finally able to maintain their sobriety - revealing which drugs could be the most addicting.

Here, azadirachtin is co-assembled with plant secondary metabolites for efficient drug delivery, demonstrating pest management, the activation of plant defensive capacity, while increasing the ...

(Beyond Pesticides, January 30, 2025) A research article in Biology Letters, published by The Royal Society, finds that the neonicotinoid insecticide imidacloprid disrupts survival and reproductive ...

A new study indicates that the drug bimagrumab can counteract the side ... Jan. 15, 2025 — In patients with high-risk HER2-positive breast cancer, post-surgery, or adjuvant, treatment with ...

Drug-resistant infections occur when pathogens change in ways that render antimicrobial drugs ineffective. As a result, the pathogens survive and continue to spread. When infections are treatable with ...

It can occur with prescription or nonprescription drugs. It can also range from mild to severe. Substance use disorder, formerly known as “drug abuse,” develops when substance use interferes ...

Organic dairy produce especially organic milk is thought to be free of the pesticide lindane which has been linked to breast cancer. Lindane - the chemicals found in non-organic milk is part of a ...