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TA-CD has been over a decade in the making, but the science behind it goes back much further. In the 1950s, researchers developed a vaccine to block fatal overdoses of the heart drug digitalis. In the 1970s University of Chicago researchers prompted monkeys to develop antibodies to heroin by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Drug to End Drug Addiction | 1/9/2008 | See Source »

Naturopathy is an interesting belief system based on the premise that the myriad ingredients in whole plant parts cancel out the side effects of the "drug" in the plant. And many drugs do come from plants. The classic example is digitalis leaf. The foxglove plant contains a chemical, digitalis, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Before You Pop That Pill | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

So who doesn't love the new movie deal? Well, some studio chiefs, who are worried that a movie on disc is much easier to dupe, and piracy is a huge drain on their income. But mainly theater owners. When they hear the word digital, they reach for their digitalis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Man Save The Movies? (Again?) | 3/12/2006 | See Source »

In an age in which so much of medical science is utterly incomprehensible--even to other scientists--it's comforting to remind ourselves from time to time that a lot of what passes for modern medicine is simply the refinement and repackaging of ancient remedies. Digitalis from foxglove. Opiates from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Future Of Drugs | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

In an age in which so much of medical science is utterly incomprehensible--even to other scientists--it's comforting to remind ourselves from time to time that a lot of what passes for modern medicine is simply the refinement and repackaging of ancient remedies. Digitalis from foxglove. Opiates from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Future Of Drugs | 1/7/2001 | See Source »

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