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Drugs

July 2024

  • Kate Bingham wearing an orange jacket and standing on some grass

    UK needs Covid-style push on dementia drugs, says ex-head of vaccine taskforce

    Kate Bingham says ageing population means tackling dementia must be treated as economic imperative
  • JAPAN-HEALTH-SCIENCE-STATINS-ENDO-OBIT<br>This undated photo released by Jiji Press on June 11, 2024 shows professor Akira Endo from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Tokyo. Endo, the Japanese biochemist whose pioneering research on fungi led to the development of cholesterol-lowering statins, has died at the age of 90, Japanese media reported on June 11, 2024. (Photo by JIJI Press / AFP) / Japan OUT (Photo by STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images)

    Akira Endo obituary

    Japanese biochemist whose work on fungal extracts led to the creation of the first statin

    • The long read
      Revolution in the air: how laughing gas changed the world

    • FDA approves second Alzheimer’s drug that can slow onset of disease

    • The Audio Long Read
      ‘Natty or not?’: how steroids got big – podcast

June 2024

  • North Tees General hospital

    Seven people treated in UK hospital after taking sleep medication zopiclone

  • ozempic

    ‘Skinny jabs’: weight-loss drugs set for new boom as generic versions emerge

  • A doctor in a white coat takes notes from a patient

    Slow-release ketamine tablets help prevent depression relapses, UK trial finds

  • Older man asleep in bed wearing a cpap machine mask

    Weight loss drug could ease sleep apnoea in people with obesity, study says

  • Bugs, drugs and electric venom: is this the most deadly library in the world?

  • Almost half of UK adults struggling to get prescription drugs amid shortages

  • EU drugs watchdog probes painkiller linked to deaths

  • Why we are sceptical about this study of antidepressant withdrawal symptoms

  • Magic mushrooms helped a Navajo woman deal with trauma. Now she wants to help others

  • Akira Endo, ‘remarkable’ scientist who discovered statins, dies aged 90

  • The myth that antidepressants are addictive has been debunked – they are a vital tool in psychiatry

    Carmine M Pariante

  • ‘Off the charts’: the key breakthroughs giving new hope in treating cancer

  • The high road
    I have lifelong anorexia. MDMA and mushrooms showed me remission is possible

  • ‘Enormous potential’: weight-loss drugs cut cancer risk by a fifth, research shows

  • Full Story
    A journey on weight-loss drug Ozempic – Full Story podcast

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