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ancient brazier

Humans

Tombs in China reveal humans were smoking cannabis 2500 years ago

Chemical traces on 2500-year-old wooden braziers are the earliest evidence that people had begun growing mutant marijuana strains that could get them stoned

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protesters

Health

Who should pay when medical drugs become too expensive to buy?

Leader

Antidepressants

Definition

Antidepressants

A drug may prevent Alzheimer’s but there are no plans to find out

Health

A drug may prevent Alzheimer’s but there are no plans to find out

Analysis

UK campaigners protesting for access to the Orkambi in 2017

Health

A generic drug from Argentina offers cystic fibrosis families hope

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people meditating

Health

Brain scans reveal magic mushroom drug enhances mindfulness meditation

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Batte Shankar

Health

How antibiotic resistance is driven by pharmaceutical pollution

Features

Cannabis

Definition

Cannabis

Oil seed rape is now farmed in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau area

Life

Cannabis plant evolved super high (on the Tibetan Plateau)

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The black mamba is the largest venomous snake in Africa

Health

The quest for better snakebite treatments gets a funding boost

A multimillion-pound programme has been launched to improve treatment for snakebites, which are thought to kill up to 138,000 people each year

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Health

Can the UK avoid having a lethal opioid crisis like the one in the US?

Insight

Life

Anti-ageing drugs are coming that could keep you healthier for longer

Features

Health

Statins may not lower cholesterol enough in half those who take them

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Health

Promising treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome fails large trial

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