The move to reclassify cannabis from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug could spark new studies into pain, aging and women's health, Dr. Staci Gruber tells GBH's All Things Considered.

Moving cannabis to a category of drugs that includes some common medicines will have implications for research, businesses ...

Acute toxicity data in laboratory animals are required to provide classification and labelling warning of a chemical, including drugs. The drugs are classified into different hazard categories based ...

Scientists at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and University center Unisanté classified 35 commonly used drugs in Switzerland based on their impact on the aquatic biodiversity. Scientists at the ...

Drugs are classified into different groups according to their chemical characteristics, structure and how they are used to treat specific disease. Medindia brings you the list of eighty six such broad ...

The government has today rejected calls for a change in the way illegal drugs are classified, saying the current system is coherent and effective. MPs on the science and technology committee had ...

The definition of a drug target is crucial to the success of mechanism-based drug discovery. It is also increasingly important for efforts to link drug response to genetic variation, understand ...

The ABC system of classifying drugs should be scrapped and replaced with one that is clearer about its aims and more firmly based on the evidence, MPs warn today. In a highly critical report, the ...

There are an estimated 380,000 "problem drug users" in the UK The penalties for drug misuse should be relaxed so that possession of small amounts would no longer be a criminal offence, the government ...

Drugs are classified into different groups according to their chemical characteristics, structure and how they are used to treat specific disease. Medindia brings you the list of eighty six such broad ...

The penalties for drug misuse should be relaxed so that possession of small amounts would no longer be a criminal offence, the government has been urged. The recommendation comes in a report from the ...