Doctors have begun trialling in hundreds of patients the world’s first personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma, as experts hailed its “gamechanging” potential to permanently…
View More ‘Real hope’ for cancer cure as personal mRNA vaccine for melanoma trialledTag: Drugs
Drug shortages, now normal in UK, made worse by Brexit, report warns
Drug shortages are a “new normal” in the UK and are being exacerbated by Brexit, a report by the Nuffield Trust health thinktank has warned.…
View More Drug shortages, now normal in UK, made worse by Brexit, report warnsBritain’s drug shortages are caused by regulator’s failure | Letters
News that European countries are working together to safeguard drug supplies with a stockpile of 200 critical products comes at a time when the UK…
View More Britain’s drug shortages are caused by regulator’s failure | LettersCould exercise pills help create a healthier society?
In a hospital in northern Norway, just south of the Arctic Circle, a landmark experiment is taking place that could transform the way we treat…
View More Could exercise pills help create a healthier society?3D-printed chip showing body’s reaction to drugs could end need for animal tests
Scientists have developed a pioneering 3D-printed device that could speed up patient access to new medicines and eliminate the need for animal testing. Thousands of…
View More 3D-printed chip showing body’s reaction to drugs could end need for animal tests‘They thought I had cancer’: painkiller banned in UK linked to Britons’ deaths in Spain
A patients group representing several British victims has launched legal action against the Spanish government over claims it failed to safeguard people against the potentially…
View More ‘They thought I had cancer’: painkiller banned in UK linked to Britons’ deaths in SpainIs the therapeutic potential of hallucinogens risky and overhyped?
In June 2021, 32-year-old actor Kate Hyatt travelled to a farmhouse near Great Malvern in Worcerstershire for a plant medicine retreat that she hoped would…
View More Is the therapeutic potential of hallucinogens risky and overhyped?Study finds 11% of patients in cardiac intensive care have taken recreational drugs
More than one in 10 patients admitted to cardiac intensive care have taken recreational drugs, research has found. Researchers in France tested the urine samples…
View More Study finds 11% of patients in cardiac intensive care have taken recreational drugsCIA experiments, Mormon ravers and reformed racists: the untold history of MDMA
It was in 1975, when Carl Resnikoff and his girlfriend, Judith Gipson, took a bucolic ferry ride to Sausalito, a city located on the north…
View More CIA experiments, Mormon ravers and reformed racists: the untold history of MDMAHigh levels of drugs found in sea off south England coast
A study looking at water pollution on the south coast of England has revealed high levels of potentially harmful chemicals including recreational drugs and antidepressants.…
View More High levels of drugs found in sea off south England coast