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psychoactive drugs

protesters

Health

Who should pay when medical drugs become too expensive to buy?

We depend on private companies to develop new drugs and treatments, but their need to profit has far-reaching consequences

Leader

Antidepressants

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Antidepressants

A drug may prevent Alzheimer’s but there are no plans to find out

Health

A drug may prevent Alzheimer’s but there are no plans to find out

Analysis

UK campaigners protesting for access to the Orkambi in 2017

Health

A generic drug from Argentina offers cystic fibrosis families hope

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people meditating

Health

Brain scans reveal magic mushroom drug enhances mindfulness meditation

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Batte Shankar

Health

How antibiotic resistance is driven by pharmaceutical pollution

Features

Cannabis

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Cannabis

Oil seed rape is now farmed in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau area

Life

Cannabis plant evolved super high (on the Tibetan Plateau)

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The black mamba is the largest venomous snake in Africa

Health

The quest for better snakebite treatments gets a funding boost

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Can the UK avoid having a lethal opioid crisis like the one in the US?

Health

Can the UK avoid having a lethal opioid crisis like the one in the US?

Doctors in the UK are concerned that it could follow the US into an opioid crisis, yet measures to prevent this could go too far and leave people in pain

Insight

Life

Anti-ageing drugs are coming that could keep you healthier for longer

Features

Health

Statins may not lower cholesterol enough in half those who take them

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Health

Promising treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome fails large trial

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Health

From the archives: Pop a pill to change your personality

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