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• Prozac may be harming bird populations, study suggests

  21 Oct 2014: Starlings who fed same levels of antidepressant drug found in sewage earthworms suffered loss of libido and appetite

• HIV prevention pill is at hand, but will it be left untaken?

  17 Oct 2014: Sarah Boseley: Trials of PrEP show not everyone can or will use it all the time, and there are concerns those taking it will take more sexual risks

• Afroman's Because I Got High gets pro-marijuana remake

  17 Oct 2014: Remix of the 2001 No 1 song promotes medical benefits and crime-reduction claims before drug-legalisation votes in several US states

• Drugs flushed into the environment could be cause of wildlife decline

  13 Oct 2014: New studies show antidepressants causing starlings to feed less and contraceptive drugs reducing fish populations in lakes
  

• Ebola vaccine trials with placebo group would be unethical, scientists say

  10 Oct 2014: Experts call for speedy testing of drugs to fight the killer disease, insisting urgent needs of patients should come first

• We can't 'cure cancer', but we can stay one step ahead of it

  10 Oct 2014: Naomi Elster: Cancer’s ability to evolve drug resistance makes it impossible to eradicate, but we may one day transform it from a killer into a long-term illness

• Ebola: how can we stop it spreading? - video report

  Video (2min 41sec), 9 Oct 2014:

  What could we do to prevent Ebola spreading further?

• Chemotherapy is brutal, but targeted drugs can reduce collateral damage

  9 Oct 2014: Targeted cancer therapies are like heat-seeking missiles programmed to find and attack cancer but leave healthy cells alone

• Cancer tumours destroyed by berry found in Queensland rainforest

  8 Oct 2014: Drug derived from the fruit of the blushwood tree kills cancerous tumours long-term in animals in 70% of cases

• Addictive and probably carcinogenic: scientist reveals dangers of Daily Mail

  7 Oct 2014: Dean Burnett: An extensive study reveals that reading the Daily Mail has many damaging consequences for health and mind. Honest

• From the archive, 4 October 1971: Spiders on LSD take a tangled trip

  4 Oct 2014: Originally published in the Guardian on 4 October 1971: Drugs experiment makes stoned spiders spin webs which are both ugly and inefficient at catching flies

• Stephen Fry: I took cocaine at Buckingham Palace and House of Lords

  26 Sep 2014: Writer and presenter tells readers of his new autobiography how he ‘brought noble properties into squalid disrepute’

• Mind-altering plants and fungi from peyote to coffee at Kew Gardens – in pictures

  24 Sep 2014: From the ancient Aztecs to Woodstock hippies, mind-altering plants have been used by various cultures for thousands of years, for everything from religious ceremonies to staying awake. A new exhibition at London’s Kew Gardens looks at some of the most popular

• Statins increase risk of diabetes but benefits are still worth it, say experts

  24 Sep 2014: Research finds strong evidence drugs cause weight gain and increase risk of disease

• Ebola epidemic: experimental drugs to be rushed to Africa

  23 Sep 2014: Vaccine trials under way as experts fear disease could become endemic in worst-hit areas of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia

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