The drug ecstasy reduces the brain’s defences, reveals a new study of rats, leaving it vulnerable to invasion by viruses and other pathogens. The researchers behind the study warn of “clinical ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For a glimpse into real-world drug use, Australian researchers went to parties where people were using a drug known as ecstasy - and discovered that users' brains were at ...

A new study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry trumpeting the dangers of Ecstasy use received A. In fact there is nothing new to this claim. Government-funded researchers have been making ...

Scratch what you’ve heard about ecstasy being bad for the brain. Tests that found nonusers more mentally competent than users are now being called “flawed,” according to a press release today from the ...

LONDON (AP) _ Ecstasy, the increasingly popular party drug, may cause more brain damage in women than in men, new research suggests. A study published this week in The Lancet medical journal compared ...

Just like shoulder pads and bleached tips, drugs fall in and out of fashion with the scientific and medical establishment. And perhaps none is having such a renaissance moment as MDMA. Whether you ...

New research has escalated a decades-old scientific and political battle over the risks inherent in the popular street drug known as Ecstasy. A synthetic chemical cousin of "speed," Ecstasy already ...

WASHINGTON -- Taking Ecstasy several times a night, a common practice among users of the illegal drug, may damage key neurons in the brain and hasten onset of Parkinson's disease, according to a study ...

Researchers at Rush Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago have shown that 21-day-old rat pups exposed in the womb to the drug MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, often called Ecstasy) ...

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