New Scientist

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Artificial intelligence helped screen millions of chemical compounds to find a class of antibiotics capable of killing two different types of drug-resistant bacteria

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New Scientist

JANUARY 3, 2024

A newly discovered drug treated infections in mice caused by a strain of bacteria that is resistant to most available antibiotics

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Scientific American

JANUARY 19, 2024

The allergy and asthma drug montelukast, also known as Singulair, can cause psychiatric side effects—and researchers aren’t sure why

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New Scientist

APRIL 22, 2024

Forensic investigators can reliably measure drug and explosive residue using gels that lift fingerprint samples

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Frontiers

AUGUST 30, 2023

by Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Image/Shutterstock.com Maintaining a regimen of antipsychotic drugs can be difficult, but going off them unexpectedly can have disastrous health consequences for patients. Traditionally, monitoring patients on these drugs involves blood tests, which can be painful and time-consuming.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2021

If expert advice is ignored when making drug approval decisions, what is the point of establishing these committees?

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APRIL 25, 2024

The DEA has offered National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day since 2010 with the goal of fighting prescription drug misuse by creating convenient ways to dispose of medication that could otherwise be at risk of misuse. Since the inception of Pennsylvania’s drug take-back program in 2015, more than 1.3

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Scientific American

MARCH 25, 2024

The Supreme Court’s mifepristone decision could make abortions harder to access and challenge the FDA’s authority to regulate all drugs and devices

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New Scientist

JANUARY 26, 2024

A rubbery patch studded with suction cups that imitate the suckers on octopus limbs can make drugs penetrate the skin without breaking it or causing irritation

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Covid-19 viruses with distinctive patterns of mutation are appearing in countries that use a drug called molnupiravir, however, none of these is a variant of concern

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A drug called tirzepatide and sold under the name Zepbound has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for use as a weight-loss medication

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NRDC

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Senate leaders face expiration of the Animal Drug User Fee Act later this month. In their rush to get a reauthorized ADUFA passed, urgently needed provisions to protect the public must not be left behind.

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New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Organs from older donors can accelerate cellular ageing in transplant recipients, but research in mice suggests this can be reduced with the help of so-called senolytic drugs

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

An oral medicine called anastrozole has been approved by the UK's drug regulatory agency for reducing the risk of breast cancer in post-menopausal women at moderate-to-high risk of the condition

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Frontiers

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Polish scientists revealed the potential for new cancer drugs to be formulated from bioactive compounds found in plants from the genus Solanum , like potatoes and aubergines. Scientists around the world are still searching for the drugs which will be lethal to cancer cells but at the same time safe for healthy cells,” said Winkiel. “It

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Scientific American

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Ozempic and similar drugs are ushering in a new era of weight management and obesity treatments, and researchers are racing to understand their impact

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 31, 2023

Applying sewage waste … Continue reading Scientists study how a diabetes drug affects soils Even at low concentrations, medications can affect water ecosystems and soil health.

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Recently approved in the US, the weight-loss drug Zepbound will reach more people in 2024, with research suggesting its effects trump those of the much talked-about Wegovy and Ozempic

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Scientific American

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Most hospitals typically test people for drugs that drove overdoses 15 to 20 years ago. We need a national system for expanded testing to help patients get the treatment they need today

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A drug called tirzepatide and sold under the name Zepbound has been approved in the US and the UK for use as a weight-loss medication

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Scientific American

JANUARY 23, 2024

It’s a longstanding government failure to never use federal “march-in” licensing rights to lower drug prices. It’s also a mistake to limit them to only a few cases

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New Scientist

MARCH 24, 2023

A stretchable sticking plaster detects whether an injury is healing well and uses stimulating electrodes and microinjections of drugs to speed up the process

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Physics World

JULY 20, 2021

A new type of stent with “pop-up/fold-down” needles that deliver drugs to tubular organs such as the gastrointestinal tract, vasculature and airway has been designed by a team of US-based engineers and physicians. These needles penetrate tissue, injecting drug-containing degradable microparticles that release the drugs over a period of time.

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Physics World

JANUARY 24, 2022

Researchers in the UK and the US have discovered a novel photonic effect that could make it far easier for chemists to assess the chirality of new drug candidates. Their findings could be key to maintaining the rapid pace of modern drug discovery. Today, drug development techniques are highly automated.

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Scientific American

AUGUST 22, 2023

More than 100,000 Americans die every year from drug overdoses. We should warn people in real time about dangerous adulterants in the illicit drug market

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Scientific American

JUNE 15, 2023

In some states, punitive drug laws require physicians to report a pregnant person with a substance use disorder, leading to the removal of their child after birth

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New Scientist

MAY 2, 2023

Penetrating the blood brain barrier via pulses of ultrasound waves led to a 3-fold increase in the concentration of a chemotherapy drug in people with the brain cancer glioblastoma multiforme

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Frontiers

AUGUST 10, 2021

The technology could be useful for delivering drugs to the nervous system. Would you let a tiny MANiAC travel around your nervous system to treat you with drugs? A recent study in Frontiers in Robotics and AI is the first to investigate how such tiny robots might perform as drug delivery vehicles in neural tissue. Good climbers.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 12, 2024

Prescription drugs and vaccines have revolutionized healthcare, but how do researchers and industry decide what diseases to pursue?

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New Scientist

MAY 4, 2023

The experimental treatment donanemab is now the second antibody drug to slow cognitive decline in people with early stage Alzheimer’s disease, but questions remain about its real-world benefits and safety

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New Scientist

DECEMBER 29, 2021

In 2021, the US approved the first drug designed to treat the cause of Alzheimer's, but the European Union rejected it. Whether the drug can actually treat the chief symptoms of the disease will be a point of contention in 2022

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Yale E360

MARCH 11, 2021

The Santa Martha territory of Peru is experiencing unprecedented deforestation as drug traffickers and land grabbers encroach. Owned by the Indigenous Cacataibo community, a majority of this 14,485-hectare territory had been officially preserved as forestland.

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Physics World

MAY 4, 2021

In the field of drug discovery, we expect quantum computing to help tackle currently intractable problems that stand in the way of discovering better and safer drugs for more diseases. In drug discovery, we follow a well-established path to find the best candidates for a new drug. What are the disadvantages of using AI?

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New Scientist

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Lyme disease, a tick-borne illness that is becoming more common in many countries, could be eradicated using a drug that kills the disease-causing bacterium

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MARCH 12, 2024

Three new diabetes drugs have recently taken the world by storm: Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy – because they also help users lose weight. But in recent months over 50 lawsuits have been filed against Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, the drug makers, for alleged side effects such as stomach paralysis.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 5, 2022

The DarkNPS algorithm has predicted the formulas of millions of potential drugs. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.

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New Scientist

MAY 17, 2023

A variety of drugs, including metformin, rapamycin and a host of new senolytics, are finally showing promise in clearing out zombie cells that cause age-related diseases. Here's what you need to know

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