Bicycle Day is observed around the world on April 19th, though it’s not exactly a celebration of the bicycle. Instead, the international holiday honors the fortuitous trip made on a bicycle on the day ...

Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered LSD and thereby gave the psychedelic generation the pharmaceutical vehicle to turn on, tune in and drop out, has died. He was 102. Mr. Hofmann died ...

Robert Burns Woodward is generally considered to be the greatest synthetic organic chemist of the 20th century. From the 1940s to the 1970s, he led the syntheses of numerous natural products and ...

ALTHOUGH several species of animals (including spiders, fighting fish, pigeons and rats) have been used for the quantitative evaluation of the effect of hallucinogenic and psychotomimetic agents it is ...

Malformations of the brain, spinal cord, liver, and other viscera; body edema; and localized hemorrhages were found in fetal hamsters from mothers injected subcutaneously with a single dose of ...

NO drug used by man has stimulated greater public-debate than lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). This brief review of the current status of the drug will summarize its pharmacology, medical uses and ...