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Achieve Life Sciences Announces Statistically Significant Smoking Cessation Results in Phase 3 ORCA-2 Clinical Trial of Cytisinicline in Adult Smokers

Medika Life - April 27, 2022

Clinical results in primary and secondary endpoints for 6- and 12-week experimental smoking cessation treatment reported by company sponsor.

Has Therapeutic Touch Lost Its Way in Medicine? Or Is It Lawsuits?

Pat Farrell PhD - May 16, 2022

Touch has become a subject of lawsuits and medical interventions. The MeToo movement pulled touch into an unexpected, negative spotlight in our culture.

The MDMA-Assisted Therapy for PTSD Study. What You’ll Get Wrong

James Coyne - May 25, 2021

Readers, including even experts, are falling for a hard sell job by venture capitalists who launder their funding of the study through a nonprofit foundation and seek not legalization

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