Mechanical eye will help wine-makers improve vintages
An automated grape counter will help growers see which parts of their vineyards need special attention (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - June 28, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Global crackdown seizes fake drugs worth $41 million
An Interpol campaign has netted 9.9 million doses of counterfeit pharmaceuticals offered online, including fake antibiotics and cancer drugs (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - June 27, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
New Zealand law permits 'low risk' designer drugs
Under proposed legislation, suppliers can sell new recreational drugs in New Zealand if they can show that they carry a "low risk of harm" (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - June 14, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Marijuana legalisation creates new hurdle for drivers
Colorado now allows recreational marijuana use, but some are questioning its newly defined limit on how much of the drug drivers can have in their blood (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - June 4, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Acid trips down memory lane
Books about and by Albert Hofmann, the chemist who discovered LSD, show just how deeply the drug has penetrated our culture (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - June 4, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Mon dieu! French wine is from Italy
French wine is renowned. But Parisians would be shocked by the wine their ancestors started out making around 500 BC: it was an Italian white (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - June 4, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Not just athletes – now horses are on steroids
Eleven of 45 racehorses from the world-renowned Godolphin stable in the UK have tested positive for prohibited anabolic steroids (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - April 24, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
More antibiotics may not always be better
A new study questions conventional wisdom on antibiotics – that a course should be taken to completion and that drug combinations can be more effective (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - April 23, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Memory drug trialled in people with Down's syndrome
Former UK government adviser David Nutt is acting as a consultant on a pilot study of a drug aimed at improving memory problems associated with Down's (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - April 11, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
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Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - April 3, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Anti-doping agency warns athletes of black market drug
Drug cheats have been warned to stay away from a drug called GW501516 that rapidly causes cancers in rodents (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - March 26, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
UK is 'sick man of Europe' – and getting worse
Ill health related to alcohol, drugs and dementia have set the UK back in a comparison of disease trends throughout Europe (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - March 5, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
E-cigarettes may soon be sold as life-saving medicine
Some countries ban them, but British regulators are considering electronic cigarettes on prescription – we take a puff on the evidence (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - February 20, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Chinese pig farms breed drug-resistant bacteria
Use of antibiotics in pig feed is favouring the emergence of superbugs on farms in China, the world's top pig producer (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - February 13, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Widespread high-tech doping blights Australian sport
"Blackest day" for sport as a new report finds perfomance-enhancing drug use is rife in Australia (Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol)
Source: New Scientist - Drugs and Alcohol - February 7, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
