Pharmacy

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Why Oral Insulin Is So Hard to Make—and How Close We Are Science

Why Oral Insulin Is So Hard to Make—and How Close We Are

Over 150 million people worldwide inject insulin daily. Scientists have spent a century trying to put it in a pill, but the human gut destroys the hor...

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How Nav1.8 Painkillers Work Without Causing Addiction Health

How Nav1.8 Painkillers Work Without Causing Addiction

Nav1.8 sodium channel blockers represent the first new class of non-opioid painkillers in over two decades, targeting peripheral pain signals before t...

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What Is Fatty Liver Disease and Why Is It So Common? Health

What Is Fatty Liver Disease and Why Is It So Common?

Fatty liver disease, now called MASLD, silently affects nearly one in three adults worldwide. Here is how it develops, why it often goes undetected, a...

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How Photopharmacology Works: Drugs Controlled by Light Science

How Photopharmacology Works: Drugs Controlled by Light

Photopharmacology embeds tiny molecular switches into drugs so doctors can turn them on or off with light, targeting treatment to exact body locations...

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Medical Cannabis: Ineffective Against Anxiety and Depression Science

Medical Cannabis: Ineffective Against Anxiety and Depression

The largest systematic review ever conducted, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, concludes that medical cannabis is not effective in treating anxiety...

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Scientists Disable Alzheimer's 'Death Switch' in Mice Health

Scientists Disable Alzheimer's 'Death Switch' in Mice

Heidelberg University neurobiologists identified a toxic protein complex driving Alzheimer's progression and used a novel compound to disrupt it in mi...

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What Is Quantum Advantage and How Does It Work? Technology

What Is Quantum Advantage and How Does It Work?

Quantum advantage is the point where quantum computers solve useful problems faster or more cheaply than any classical machine. Here is how it works,...

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Ozempic Reduces Depression and Anxiety, Major Study Shows Health

Ozempic Reduces Depression and Anxiety, Major Study Shows

A large Swedish study of nearly 95,000 patients published in The Lancet Psychiatry has confirmed that semaglutide (Ozempic) reduces the risk of worsen...

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Probiotic Bacteria Engineered to Hunt and Kill Tumors Health

Probiotic Bacteria Engineered to Hunt and Kill Tumors

Scientists are programming gut-friendly bacteria to infiltrate tumors and produce cancer-fighting drugs on-site, showing dramatic results in mice and...

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How Pharmaceuticals Get Into Crops Via Wastewater Science

How Pharmaceuticals Get Into Crops Via Wastewater

As water scarcity pushes farmers worldwide to irrigate with treated wastewater, research reveals that crops absorb trace pharmaceuticals—and where exa...

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How Smart Bandages Work—and Why They Matter Science

How Smart Bandages Work—and Why They Matter

Smart bandages use embedded sensors, wireless electronics, and on-demand drug delivery to monitor wounds in real time and accelerate healing—a leap be...

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How Engineered Bacteria Fight Cancer From Inside Tumors Science

How Engineered Bacteria Fight Cancer From Inside Tumors

Scientists are programming harmless bacteria to infiltrate tumors and produce anti-cancer drugs on site. Here's how bacterial cancer therapy works, wh...

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