A study led by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, in collaboration with the University of East London UK, and Swansea University UK, is the first to show the effects of the drug ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The research that the FDA considered was spearheaded by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), which ...

A panel of advisers to the U.S. health regulator on Tuesday voted against a therapy based on the party drug MDMA for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder, in a major setback to the nascent ...

FDA staff raised concerns about the available safety data and limitations in the study design for midomafetamine (MDMA) to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in briefing documents released ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo provided by the Center for Psychedelic Therapy Research shows a Yehuda Lab MDMA-assisted therapy treatment room at the ...

Efforts to make MDMA legally available as a psychotherapeutic catalyst hit a daunting roadblock on Tuesday when an expert panel overwhelmingly voted to recommend that the Food and Drug Administration ...

Only two drugs are formally approved for post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and they don’t help everyone. A lack of effective treatment options has led some patients to seek out the psychedelic ...

On Tuesday, an expert panel advising the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on the use of MDMA, or ecstasy, in combination with talk therapy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder rejected the ...

There are no 'safe use guarantees', but it's possible to reduce harm.

When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declined to approve MDMA-assisted psychotherapy as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) last year, the details of its objections were not ...

Federal health regulators are questioning the safety and evidence behind the first bid to use MDMA, the mind-altering club drug, as a treatment for PTSD, part of a decadeslong effort by advocates to ...