May 2015
DEA approves MDMA (Ecstasy) study
For many years, psychotherapy has been used to treat anxiety in people suffering from life-threatening illnesses. Now, it has a new partner in that fight: MDMA. A new trial in Marin, California, approved by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), has both...
Generic drug safety concerns
A quirk in drug law mandates that the warning label on generic drugs must follow that of their brand-name counterpart. So what happens when the brand name prescription becomes less popular and loses interest in updating their warning? Still popular generic...
Heroin Use Rises in Individuals Abusing Painkillers
Health professionals have historically warned that the recreational use of pharmaceuticals can lead to more serious drug addiction. Recently, Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health released a study that confirms the link between opiate abuse and...
Exposure to Air Pollution Could Age the Human Brain
As humans age, the neurons in the brain begin to deteriorate and it shrinks in size. A new study illustrates that constant exposure to air pollution may decrease the volume of the brain just as aging does, leading to issues such as silent strokes and cogni...
FDA Reevaluating Homeopathic Remedies
Homeopathy is an alternative branch of medicine that was invented at the end of the 18th century by Samuel Hahnemann, a man who believed that the dilution of a substance increases its potency. Since 1988, homeopathic medicine has not been regulated by the Fo...
E-Cig Use in High Schoolers Rises to 2 Million
Electronic cigarettes, also known as e-cigarettes or vaporizers, are battery-powered devices that produce similar effects to smoking tobacco. Although the health risks and benefits are controversial, the popularity of these nicotine vapor devices has increas...
Single-Dose Ebola Vaccine is Effective
Researchers, doctors and politicians across the globe have been working to put an end to the Ebola outbreak that ravaged West Africa and killed almost 10,000 people in 2014. As scientists attempted to discover the best preventative option, certain vaccine ...
IKEA recalls 300,000 crib mattresses over safety concerns
IKEA has recalled nearly 300,000 crib mattresses in fear that babies could become caught between the mattress and the crib. Two infants have already been reported to have been entrapped. Luckily, both escaped without injury.The U.S. Government has stri...
Diabetes Medication Mutates Freshwater Fish
Scientists have discovered that transgendered fish in freshwater systems worldwide have been mutated by an unlikely culprit.Studies show that these fish have been physically mutated by Metformin, an oral medication prescribed to regulate blood sugar in...