The growing global population of elderly individuals has led to a dramatic rise in chronic diseases, including neurocognitive ...

The earliest evidence for the use of plants as drugs—possibly for medication or a pick-me-up—may have been found amid human remains in a 15,000-year-old cave burial in North Africa.

Northeastern University researchers resurrected an extinct plant gene, turning back the evolutionary clock to pave a path forward for the development and discovery of new drugs. Specifically ...

Psychopharmacologist Ronald Siegel most famously raised public and scientific awareness of the unmistakable fact that animals seek out intoxicating substances in his 1989 book, Intoxication ...

The firms that are overdue for safety and quality inspections represent about 42% of the 4,700 plants that are currently registered to produce drugs for the U.S. and previously underwent FDA ...

But the recently published book, Brutalist Plants, does just that, as its contents are derived from author Olivia Broome’s Instagram account. It is unusual for a book review to begin by ...

Find Your Next Book Thrillers N.Y.C. Literary ... Calvo concludes that both animals and plants are “knocked out” by the same drugs, indicating certain similarities. In a fascinating chapter ...

The firms that are overdue for safety and quality inspections represent about 42% of the 4,700 plants that are currently registered to produce drugs for the U.S. and previously underwent FDA review ...

Federal regulators responsible for the safety of the U.S. drug supply are still struggling to get back to where they were in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic upended factory inspections in ...