When Are You Going to Get Your Prescription MDMA?
Not long ago, the idea of walking up to a clerk behind a counter and getting a baggie of weed seemed ludicrous. Now, in states where recreational or medical marijuana is approved and regulated, it’s a routine, mundane part of life. Are psychedelics next? It may seem like a similar scenario isn’t far off for…
Just How Safe Is Laser Eye Surgery?
The offers began arriving by email in January: a chance at clearer vision for the special price of US$299 per eye. Over the next four months, I received 20 ads from the same company – each offering the same deal for the “safe, FDA approved” surgery. “Individual results will vary,” each ad said in the…
Can Scientists Create a One-Click Shop For Cancer Treatments?
What if there were a vast library of crowd-sourced samples of rare cancers, and scientists could order them simply using ‘one-click shopping’? At the end of the 1990s, none of the world’s pharmaceutical companies were working on therapies to treat brain tumours in children. It wasn’t a profitable market; brain tumours are rare in comparison…
Smog Causes More Than 3 Million Premature Deaths a Year Worldwide
Air pollution is rarely a major concern for most people in Western Europe. You seldom notice it except when sitting in heavy traffic or when it obscures the far horizon at a scenic spot. However until the middle of last century it was a different story, with heavy industry and domestic heating filling city air…
