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Some of your favorite products have absurd medicinal histories
PxHere Before they were staples in your fridge or household supply cabinet, many ordinary products were used in extraordinary (and often totally absurd) medical contexts. The most popular example is...
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This drug can stop an opioid overdose—and you should carry it
In 2016, 42,292 people died of an opioid overdose in the United States alone. It’s part of a heartbreaking epidemic that continues to consume individuals, families, towns, and cities across the...
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The FDA approved a drug that treats opioid addiction that isn’t addictive itself
This week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave final approval for a drug shown to mitigate the symptoms associated with opioid withdrawal. It’s not the first treatment designed to help those...
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These are the actual side effects of Ambien
Pixabay Ambien is one of the top 20 drugs prescribed in America. You probably know it as a sleeping pill, but it’s more accurately classified as a sedative-hypnotic, and doesn’t actually induce...
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Psychedelics gave me my life back
Grim trippin'. Julia Rothman ↑ Dinah Bazer, ovarian cancer survivor and ice skating coach In May 2010, doctors diagnosed me with ovarian cancer. As I went through surgery and six rounds of...
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Can this flu drug really stop Ebola in its tracks?
Experimental drug treatments have been approved for use on Ebola patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo. DepositPhotos On June 4, an ethics committee in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
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The truth behind 8 common misconceptions about drugs
Drugs, especially illegal ones, are notorious for their misinformation. Without a reliable knowledge base, users—from recreational ones to addicts—often rely on friends, online forums, and other...
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The weirdest things we learned this week: skin-peeling soup, secret drug...
The Chlorine Five don't really live on in infamy, but they should. DepositPhotos What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer if...
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K2’s deadly mystery: Nobody knows what’s actually in synthetic marijuana
DEA This week, more than 70 people overdosed on the synthetic marijuana known as K2 during a single 24 hour period in New Haven, Connecticut, stretching the resources of the city’s emergency medical...
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32 kids’ medicines are getting recalled. Here’s what you need to know
On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a statement that the homeopathic drug company King Bio is recalling 32 of its children’s pain-relievers. According to the FDA, a “small...
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A new painkiller promises relief without addiction, but there’s still lots to do
The United States is currently grappling with a crisis in opioid addiction. The federal government estimates that 2.1 million people had an opioid use disorder in 2016, spurring the Department of...
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If you want personalized medicine, we’ll need to know what time it is in your...
Back in 1960, researchers discovered that a specific toxin, given to a mouse at one time of the day, would kill it. Administer the same poison at a different time, and the mouse was fine. The study of...
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Everything you need to know about ricin poison
Update: On October 2, 2018, news outlets reported that envelopes suspected of containing ricin had been found in the Pentagon’s Central Processing Center. The FBI is currently testing the suspicious...
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The weirdest things we learned this week: Sheep on meth, hopping space...
Ice delivery was a booming business—including during World War I, when women took over some of the manual labor. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration What’s the weirdest thing you learned...
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Nobody really knows what smoking pot does to your lungs
In case you missed the news, Canada legalized marijuana last week, leaving the country’s 13 provinces and territories to each figure out how it will be sold in their jurisdiction, and pot users across...
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The FDA just approved the first new flu drug in 20 years. Here’s what you...
Our arsenal in the endless, roving, ever-evolving battle against the influenza virus just got slightly larger. The Food & Drug Administration just announced that they had approved the aptly-named...
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As states scramble to find execution drugs, experts say it’s time to let...
The drugs started flowing at 10:24 a.m. First came a high dose of diazepam—more commonly known as valium—to render Carey Dean Moore unconscious. Then came fentanyl, an opioid painkiller, followed by...
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Do we need an opioid 1,000 times more powerful than morphine? The FDA thinks so.
Opioid Crisis The opioid crisis is an official public health emergency in the U.S. A new, super-powerful opioid drug just received a stamp of approval from the Federal Drug Administration (FDA). The...
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This vaccine could help people with celiac eat gluten again, but it’s not for...
Despite the explosion of gluten-free food in the last few years, actually being on a physician-prescribed GF diet isn’t easy. Millions of people with celiac disease spend their lives fretting over...
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How we turned guns and opioids into epidemics
Heather Mount via Unsplash A North Texas teacher marching in the March for Our Lives rally held in Denton, Texas on March 24th, 2018. Heather Mount via Unsplash Not all epidemics come from things you...
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