Patients suffering from the agony of cluster headaches will take anything to dull the pain, even LSD, it turns out. Results from a pilot study presented at the International Headache Congress reveal that six patients treated with 2-bromo-LSD, a nonhallucinogenic analog of LSD, showed a significant reduction in cluster headaches per day; some were free […]

Recent research has shown that a low levels of the sunshine vitamin, vitamin D, may contribute to chronic pain among women. This does not apply to men, suggesting hormones may be involved, according to a study published in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases. In succession of the research, studies are now investigating if vitamin D […]

Fingerprints could be used to detect traces of drugs or explosives in one of the most significant improvements in the technology for years. Police now have the ability to analyse the traces of cannabis, cocaine and other drugs, or explosives, in a fingerprint itself. The new technique reveals, in extraordinary detail, the chemical compounds that […]

The research department of Philips has developed a pill, the iPill, which navigates individually in the intestines to locate the right destination to release the medicines. The trick is that the pill is equipped with sensors that measure the acidity and temperature, therefore the location of the gastrointestinal tract. The sensors are controlled by a […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is always on the edge when dealing with technology and innovations. As DARPA is a military organisation, they test a lot of products which can improve the physical and mental performance of the army. The scientists of DARPA have now found a drug that eliminates sleepiness of a key brain hormone. The drug, a naturally occurring brain hormone orexin A, […]