LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have unravelled how a horse tranquiliser and hallucinogenic night club drug known as “Special K” can ease depression, researchers said on Friday.
Ketamine, which can also cause feelings of detachment, could pave the way for new treatments for people suffering from depression, the researchers added.
Their study, published in the Archives of General [...]

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Nearly a third of children who stay in a paediatric intensive care unit have delusional memories, including vivid and frightening hallucinations that put them at far higher risk of post traumatic stress disorder, British researchers said on Thursday.
They said children were five times more likely to report delusions or hallucinations if they [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - A new, viral web site conceived by U.S. college students challenges stereotypes about who might be infected with HIV using a model pioneered by a campaign to raise awareness about Darfur.
The site, www.PosorNot.com, was unveiled on Wednesday by MTV, the Kaiser Family Foundation and POZ Magazine and presents viewers with [...]

LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline’s incoming chief executive said on Wednesday he would make emerging markets a priority for future growth by creating a new region targeting such countries.
Andrew Witty, who takes over at the head of world’s biggest drugmaker by sales next month, said emerging markets were already contributing close to 25 percent of current [...]

ZURICH (Reuters) - Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD, has died aged 102, the organisation that republished his book on the mind-altering substance said.
Hofmann died at his home in Basel, Switzerland on Tuesday, the California-based Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies said on its website.
Born January 11, 1906, Hofmann discovered LSD [...]

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Families who claim the corpses of more than 1,000 relatives were dismembered and sold in an illegal body-parts scandal sued funeral directors and others on Tuesday.
The class action suit represents hundreds of people who claim their relatives' body parts were harvested for medical use without their consent.
It charges seven individuals, and the [...]