How farmers on an island off the coast of Australia emerged as the world’s leading suppliers of opioid alkaloids, the raw material for making painkilling drugs.
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This is a story about opioids in one Kentucky community. And it’s also about how unfounded fears can do real harm, and what it means to do good.
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Ray Finucane devised a series of computational algorithms to track the progression of Parkinson’s disease. Now he’s looking for approval.
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Deep in the Adirondacks, the unexpectedly death of small-town police sergeant reopened the debate about banning kratom.
A warmer, wetter world probably means one thing for humanity’s fears about mold: Things are going to get worse.
Nobody scours Central Park looking for drugs quite the way Sean Brady does. A look into the revitalized search for new antibiotics.