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Ketamine has received a Hollywood makeover. It used to be known as a rave drug (street name special K) and cat anesthetic.

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Scientists discovered years ago that the hypothalamus—which helps to manage body temperature, hunger, sex drive, sleep and ...

Sotagliflozin, a drug recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat type 2 diabetes and kidney disease with ...

In the first 18 months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, most states with abortion bans saw a rise in ...

A global research collaboration has revealed how certain gut cells switch on pain signals, which can linger long after the ...

Researchers present the most comprehensive study on U.S. health care spending and variations across 3,110 counties by four ...

Our brain and eyes can play tricks on us—not least when it comes to the expanding hole illusion. A new computational model ...

Researchers from Cologne, Bochum, Padova and Angers have discovered a novel connection between mitochondrial function, ...

The SYNGAP1 gene, which supports the production of a protein called SynGAP (Synaptic Ras GTPase-Activating Protein), is known ...