7:09 p.m. Aug. 22, 2025: An earlier version of this story reported that Dr. Sunil Aggarwal filed a lawsuit after a 2020 petition seeking to reschedule psilocybin was denied. He filed that petition in ...

Lately, Dr. Ruth Namazzi and her colleagues have been stopping one another in their hospital ward with worried looks. Between treating patients, she says, they voice their concerns: "'Malaria's very ...

Dr. Casey Means, a Stanford-educated surgeon and wellness influencer with no active medical license, is President Donald Trump’s pick to become the next U.S. Surgeon General. But what you might not ...

Psilocybin—the psychedelic compound that occurs naturally in certain "magic" mushroom species—has been shown in trials to ...

A bill that would legalize medical magic mushrooms in New Jersey has landed on the desk of Gov. Phil Murphy. The legislation, ...

A single dose of psilocybin, a compound found in "magic mushrooms" provides long-term relief from anxiety and depression in cancer patients, a new study finds.In fact, cancer patients who were given ...

A hand in a blue glove plucks a white mushroom from a dense stand of mushrooms. Mature magic mushrooms are carefully harvested to minimize damage. Credit: Filament Health Some scientists theorize that ...

“We are in the middle of a rapidly evolving cultural, media, and legal landscape when it comes to psychedelics,” says Nora D. Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

Regulation of psilocybin — the “magic” substance in psychedelic mushrooms — has been a hot-button issue for Californians in recent years, but repeated attempts by state lawmakers to allow medical use ...