After surgery and radiotherapy for breast cancer, Marie Jones was prescribed a daily pill to reduce the chances of the disease returning. But just three weeks into the planned five-year course of treatment, she ditched the tablets.
‘I know some people might think I’m mad for not doing everything possible to reduce my risk,’ says Marie, 54, a PR consultant, who lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland, with husband Paddy, 56, a decorator, and has three grown-up children.
‘But my menopause
As 4/20 rolls around once again, the unmistakable smell of cannabis will soon be filling parks and student accommodations across the country.
Despite remaining illegal in the UK, the drug is regularly smoked, eaten, or vaped by an estimated 3.1 million people.
But understanding the science of what cannabis does to your mind can be tricky, especially if you happen to have just smoked some.
From boosting your libido to triggering auditory hallucinations, not all the effects of cannabis are
As I step among poop-covered rocks toward the plateau of a small island in the Galápagos, a part of me rejoices. Not only am I about to see the archipelago’s famed blue-footed boobies for the first time, but the sight of guano everywhere, and birds to make fresh batches, serves as a reminder: The ongoing avian influenza outbreak has not yet ravaged this picturesque place.
Ghostly, leafless Palo Santo trees and saltbushes sprinkle the island, surrounded by boulders in varying
A pilot who had previous taken magic mushrooms who nearly cut the engines on a plane mid-flight should serve as a cautionary tale about wide access to psychedelics, experts warn.
Joseph Emerson, an off-duty pilot riding on an Alaska Airlines flight had taken magic mushrooms 48 hours prior to taking off in Everett, Washington to San Francisco when he had a nervous breakdown, nearly cutting off the engines of the plane mid-flight, potentially sending 84 people to their deaths.
The
A nationwide social experiment launched by a wave of marijuana legalizations is finally bearing results in the form of higher depression rates and addiction.
It started in 2012 in Colorado and Washington, setting off a domino effect that has seen restrictions lifted across nearly 40 states, including 23 where it’s legal to use marijuana recreationally.
The Biden administration now aims to demote the drug from its schedule I status, which lumped it in with heroin and LSD, to schedule III,
It has already been heralded as the ‘turning point’ in the decades-long war against Alzheimer’s.
But questions about whether donanemab — and two similar drugs — are really the answer to combating the devastating disease remain unanswered.
Landmark trial findings published today revealed that donanemab, given as a once-monthly infusion, slowed the decline of Alzheimer’s by up to 60 per cent.
Patients in the earliest stages of the memory-robbing disease were spared from the inevitable worsening of their symptoms.
Pharmaceutical
In 1990, the U.S. government began mailing out envelopes, each containing a presidential letter of apology and a $20,000 check from the Treasury, to more than 82,000 Japanese Americans who, during World War II, were robbed of their homes, jobs, and rights, and incarcerated in camps. This effort, which took a decade to complete, remains a rare attempt to make reparations to a group of Americans harmed by force of law. We know how some recipients used their
Ever since I read media scholar Julie Turnock’s The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light & Magic and the Rendering of Realism, I haven’t been able to watch a movie or TV show that contains special effects without focusing on the wrong things. Instead of dragons or landscapes from the past, I see particles everywhere: fog and dust and mist and dirt and shrapnel and rain. These digital details
One afternoon not long ago, I sat entering notes into a patient’s medical record. She was in her forties, and her labs showed anemia. The causes of anemia range from menstruation to cancer, and so pinpointing the correct underlying diagnosis is critical. Physicians are trained to formulate a full roster of possibilities, known as the differential diagnosis, and then to work down the list systematically. We’re taught to cast a wide net—celiac disease, parasitic infections, thalassemia, lead poisoning, liver disease,
In keeping with the grand tradition of tubby cats, a newly created quantum “cat” is particularly massive — at least for the quantum realm.
Scientists put a jiggling piece of sapphire crystal in what’s known as a “cat state,” in which an object exists in two different states simultaneously. It’s a situation reminiscent of physicists’ favorite imaginary feline, Schrödinger’s cat, known for being alive and dead at the same time.
The new sapphire cat is a relatively hefty 16 micrograms,
