The announcement on Wednesday that Johns Hopkins Medicine was starting a new center to study psychedelic drugs for mental disorders was the latest chapter in a decades-long push by health nonprofits and wealthy donors to shake up psychiatry from the outside, bypassing the usual channels. “Psychiatry is one of the most conservative specialties in medicine,”… Read More »
Approximately half of the world’s population experiences, will experience, or has experienced menstruation, and yet myths about this biological process still abound. In this Spotlight feature, we debunk some of the most widespread menstruation misconceptions. In this Spotlight feature, we debunk some widespread myths surrounding menstruation. As of 2017, the world’s population numbers 7.53 billion… Read More »
Little Annabelle Pott’s paralysed cheeks struggle to give us a smile. The five year-old Canberra girl is battling DIPG (diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma), a brain cancer that targets only kids, is fatal and has an average survival time of around nine months. That’s exactly how long Kathie and Adam Potts were told that they had… Read More »