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“Fasting and Wegovy”: Elon Musk uses new weight loss drug
With celebrities pressured to have an unrealistic physical aesthetic, is it surprising that having personal trainers, nutritionists, and dieticians to lose weight simply isn’t enough?

I joined a clinical trial, here’s what you should know
Jess Ferguson shares her experiences of participating in a clinical trial for the drug psilocybin

Drug testing crisis: Only 250 kits for 40,000 students
Unadvertised and unavailable: drug testing kits for students still not readily accessible

Can pharmacogenomics be introduced to the NHS?
We have the technology to precisely match peoples drugs to their DNA, but should it be introduced to the NHS?
Students say no to zero tolerance
A Mancunion Investigation has raised questions over the effectiveness of the University of Manchester’s zero tolerance drug policy

New UoM study suggests targeting two faulty genes to treat leukaemia
This study is thought to lead to the development of a more efficient treatment in some patients, and represents a major step towards fighting AML, a rare form of blood cancer with a high mortality rate

The mysterious vaping illness: an epidemic?
A new vaping-related illness has afftected at least 530 people, the CDC said last week, bringing the latest fatality to nine

Science research has caused Spice to become such a big problem
The synthetic drug problem across Europe and North America has been created inadvertently by scientific journals’ research

Our relationship with antibiotics: cure and concern
Tom Allen looks at antibiotics, and if it is time to reform the way in which we use them