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When you play pickleball, chances are your knees will hurt. When I play pickleball, chances are everything will hurt (including my hair).
In the annals of medical and political history, few episodes better illustrate the conflict between environmental conservation and medical necessity than the effort to bring Taxol to patients.
There is no doubt that GLP-1s induce weight loss, with a rising percentage with each new generation targeting multiple sites in the metabolic pathways underlying obesity.
In case you are "nova" to this site, here's what to expect: Some terrible puns and juvenile humor, a little about drug pollution in water, and a smear of chemistry in the form of drug metabolism. Don the life jackets. It's time to sink or swim.
One of TikTok’s seemingly endless stupid “challenges” has resurfaced after six years in hiding.
I intended to write about rocket fuel. So, how did I end up writing about “ayahuasca,” a hallucinogenic brew originating from Indigenous Amazon traditions? Well, here we go.
We live in a nation of needless pain!
