Drugs

Health & Medicine
Analysis
There are pros and cons for weight loss medications like Ozempic
Drugs like Mounjaro and Wegovy have led to a sudden shift in treatment, but also to a lot of questions about how we think about and treat obesity

Health & Medicine
Analysis
What are drugs like Ozempic doing to the brains of people that binge eat?
New medications are reshaping how people eat, but we need to be wary of their potential impact on people with eating disorders

Health & Medicine
Research
Australia’s largest pharmaceutical companies need to do more to reduce their carbon footprint
Big pharma is big carbon, but multi-billion-dollar drug companies have a mixed record on efforts towards net-zero

Health & Medicine
Opinion
Pill testing is the right choice
The Victorian government’s decision to introduce drug testing demonstrates it takes its duty to prevent harm seriously

Sciences & Technology
Drugging plants to learn their secrets
Discovering chemicals that affect plant circadian rhythms could improve crop yields – bringing us a step closer to ‘chronoculture’

Health & Medicine
The new weapon against malaria’s drug resistance
Over the last 50 years, malaria parasites have developed resistance to seven drugs, but a new way to identify future antimalarials holds promise

Health & Medicine
A remedy for false COVID-19 cures?
Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration has been more vigilant in policing advertisements for unproven COVID-19 ‘treatments’. But have some slipped through the cracks?

Politics & Society
A precarious high
The Australian Capital Territory’s new cannabis laws are at odds with Australia’s federal laws, but should the federal government stay out of it?

Health & Medicine
Preventing the spread of malaria
Scientists have discovered a new drug target to block the world’s deadliest malaria parasite from spreading

Health & Medicine
How babies may be more vulnerable to medication
New research has found a mechanism that may make fetuses and newborns more exposed to drugs, providing a pathway to better understanding of what is a safer dosage for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers