Medicine now rightly recognizes addiction as a neurobiological disorder that may require long-term pharmacologic treatment.

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Scientists claim to have detected a bizarre collection of organic molecules in ancient Martian rocks, including compounds ...

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Coffee may be America’s favorite daily drug, and dementia one of its most feared diagnoses. So, when a large study suggests ...

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Here’s a rare treat. It’s one thing to read about Taxol, one of the most important breakthroughs in modern cancer treatment. It’s another thing to hear the story from someone directly involved in the ...

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Melanoma is among the most preventable skin cancers when found early, yet it remains the skin cancer most likely to spread ...

Synthetic pesticides: they're the ultimate bogeyman in the mind of today's chemophobic health "influencer." As popular as ...