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Superstar Bradley Cooper didn’t beat around the bush and said he’s lucky to have been sober — for nearly 20 years now — following a battle with alcohol and drug addiction early in his career.During the 48-year-old actor’s appearance on…

This June, Akili released EndeavorOTC, an “over-the-counter” version of the game for adults. It uses the same FDA-approved technology under the hood, but isn’t yet authorized by the agency (although Akili announced last week that they’re…

Next, Parker wondered how general this effect is. Most antipsychotics developed over the past 70 years stick to dopamine receptors, but a new generation binds to other sites, like acetylcholine receptors. Might these new drugs still be…

About one in eight women in the United States experiences postpartum depression after giving birth. Soon, there may finally be a convenient, fast-acting medication to treat it—if the Food and Drug Administration gives it the green…

Back to the study. The Connecticut group chose a site where they could monitor a small, contained deer herd: a peninsula jutting into Long Island Sound where the property surrounding a decommissioned power plant is returning to a wild…

Early clinical trials of norgestrel, the active ingredient in Opill, have shown that the pills can be up to 98 percent effective at preventing pregnancy, but only when the drug is taken exactly as indicated and used along with a back-up…

Nearly ten years ago, the sprawling dark-web drug market known as the Silk Road was torn offline in a law enforcement operation coordinated by the FBI, whose agents arrested the black market's boss, Ross Ulbricht, in a San Francisco…

Campaign of drug prohibition led by the US government US timeline graphs of number of people incarcerated in jails and prisons The war on drugs is a global campaign, led by the United States federal government, of drug prohibition,…

That isn’t surprising, says John Wilding, an obesity researcher at the University of Liverpool who led a major study on the use of semaglutide to treat overweight or obese adults. “Clinical trials tell us about the biology–whether the…

Gov. John Bel Edwards (D-LA) vetoed the Stop Harming Our Kids Act, legislation that would have protected children and teens from transgender hormone drugs and surgeries, claiming “there was never any evidence or testimony” that gender…