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Nightlife Young people - especially women - increasingly fear being drugged, and the phenomenon is more widespread and complex than previously assumed.

Over-the-counter or prescription? Most of us have one or more medicinal products lying around at home.

What does a lack of knowledge about women's health actually mean? Here are five clear answers to why both research and the healthcare system must focus more on women's health - with insights from Prof

Economics Grief over the sudden death of a partner leads one in six surviving partners to experience such severe psychological distress that they begin taking sedatives or antidepressants. If the death also results in a noticeable loss of income, the share of widows and widowers using psychotropic medication is significantly higher.

Zoonotic diseases The infectious and multi-resistant cattle disease Salmonella Dublin can be fatal to both humans and animals and causes significant losses for farmers.

Biotech The demand for the widely used cancer drug Taxol is increasing, but it's difficult and expensive to produce because it hasn't been possible to do it biosynthetically.