Alex Aguilar left his family and farm hand job in Honduras seven years ago to pursue a better life, eventually finding work cleaning stables and feeding thoroughbreds six days a week at a New Jersey horse farm.
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Twenty percent of scientists admit to using performance-enhancing prescription drugs for non-medical reasons, according to a survey released Wednesday by Nature, Britain's top science journal.
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Photo: About brain-boosting drugs, Leon Kass, in a report on human enhancement, said, 'In seeking by these to be better than we are or to like ourselves better than we do, we risk «turning into someone else,» confounding the identity we have acquired through natural gift cultivated by genuinely lived experiences.' More on this site Are 'brain…
A large, phase III clinical study showed the drug modafinil alleviated severe cancer-related fatigue for many patients, paving the way for the first reliable treatment for this debilitating and common side…
Neuro-enhancers like Adderall and Ritalin are invading academia and the office as users attempt to improve their performance in the workplace.
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The U.S. National Institutes of Health is spending $10.8 million on three clinical trials investigating whether modafinil — a drug used to treat narcolepsy — is effective as a treatment for cocaine addiction.
Nora D. Volkow, MD, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, report[s] evidence that Provigil might be more addictive than thought.
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