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Ketamine is easier to prescribe than ever, and the FDA is not happy about it

Ketamine is easier to prescribe than ever, and the FDA is not happy about it

So is at-home ketamine safe? William Dudney, a psychiatrist in Tampa, Florida, has been offering patients ketamine for five years in the form of “troches,” waxy lozenges about the size of a Chiclet. The troche gets tucked between the lip and gum until it melts. His patients do take ketamine at home, but he prescribes […]

Everything you need to know about artificial wombs

Everything you need to know about artificial wombs

The technology would likely be used first on infants born at 22 or 23 weeks who don’t have many other options. “You don’t want to put an infant on this device who would otherwise do well with conventional therapy,” Mychaliska says. At 22 weeks gestation, babies are tiny, often weighing less than a pound. And […]

Lab-grown meat just reached a major milestone. Here’s what comes next. 

Lab-grown meat just reached a major milestone. Here’s what comes next. 

That sounds like a lot, but in the grand scheme of food production, it’s pretty tiny. Large commercial meat facilities produce millions of pounds of meat each year—and that’s the sort of scale Upside is targeting for its first commercial facility, said Eric Schulze, VP of global scientific and regulatory affairs at Upside foods, in […]