Olivia Goldhill

Big pharmaceutical companies are getting more comfortable with psychedelic drugs, despite the FDA’s rejection of MDMA last year.

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Insecure about their looks, more men than ever are getting plastic surgery.

The people most at risk from suicide aren’t adolescents in angst or those experiencing a midlife lull, but men age 75 and older.

Compass Pathways said Monday it achieved its primary endpoint in an early readout from the largest-ever study of psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression.

HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared that the FDA’s “suppression of psychedelics” was about to end. Now he and his allies may be in position to do something about it.

he Food and Drug Administration rejected MDMA as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder on Friday, in a blow to drug activists and veterans who’ve long campaigned for the psychedelic treatment. Although two Phase 3 trials suggested the…

decades-long campaign to legalize MDMA as a mainstream medical treatment will reach a climax as soon as Friday, with the Food and Drug Administration poised to decide whether the psychedelic should be approved as a treatment for post-traumatic stress…

n a speech earlier this year, former President Trump was mocking President Biden’s ability to walk through sand when he suddenly switched to talking about the old Hollywood icon Cary Grant. “Somebody said he [Biden] looks great in a bathing suit,…

t a contentious advisory committee meeting in June, the Food and Drug Administration announced it was investigating allegations of data suppression and misconduct in clinical trials of MDMA-assisted therapy. The agency was “quite concerned” by claims…

ays after an advisory committee resoundingly voted for the Food and Drug Administration to reject MDMA as medical treatment, the founder of the company that applied for approval was ebullient. Rick Doblin, who has spent decades driving forward MDMA…

t a heated advisory committee meeting convened by the Food and Drug Administration last week, regulators repeatedly expressed frustration that Lykos, a company seeking approval of MDMA-assisted therapy to treat PTSD, failed to follow instructions and…

ood morning, and welcome to STAT’s live blog of the Food and Drug Administration’s scientific advisory committee meeting to review safety and efficacy data for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. The discussion will…

n less than three months, the Food and Drug Administration will decide whether to approve MDMA as the first new treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder in more than two decades. It’s a landmark moment for advocates of using psychedelics as…

he MDMA study was her last hope. She had read headlines celebrating a 83% response rate in one small, early study of the psychedelic for treating PTSD, and was counting on the new clinical trial to alleviate her own post-traumatic stress disorder.…

he Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has transformed not just abortion access but maternal health care across the United States, causing physicians in states with restrictive laws to shift treatment of conditions including ectopic…

bortion access organizations say they are confronting an imminent crisis with Florida’s forthcoming six-week ban on abortion. The state, whose neighboring states also have imposed abortion restrictions, was home to more than 84,000 abortions last…

he Texas Medical Board, responding to pressure from the state Supreme Court and widespread uncertainty among physicians, proposed draft guidance Friday in an attempt to clarify what constitutes emergency grounds for a legal abortion. A summary of the…

cientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have spent years trying to unravel the details of Down syndrome: What happens inside the womb, how the genetic disorder alters the formation of neurons, and what specific processes affect brain…

ecisions made by the Food and Drug Administration more than 20 years ago have come under heightened scrutiny thanks to a lawsuit calling for increased restrictions around the pregnancy-terminating drug mifepristone. The Alliance of Hippocratic…