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Marine Corps combat veteran Matt Metzger poses for a portrait with a plate of mushrooms that he grows himself for microdosing psilocybin, Wednesday, March 26, 2025, in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Believers say microdosing psychedelics helps them. Scientists are trying to measure the claims

Microdosing is gaining popularity with a new breed of health seekers. These self-experimenters take a very small amount of psilocybin mushrooms or LSD to reduce anxiety, stress and depression.

This electron microscope image provided by the National Institutes of Health shows human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) virions, colorized blue, and anti-RSV F protein/gold antibodies, colorized yellow, shedding from the surface of human lung cells. (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH via AP, File)

Experts recommendations on RSV and meningitis vaccines will go to ex-prosecutor now at CDC

The Biogen Inc., headquarters is pictured on March 11, 2020, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

European regulators OK Alzheimer’s treatment Leqembi after initial doubts

A healthcare worker fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Jackson Memorial Hospital on Oct. 5, 2021, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Key vaccine committee meets for the first time under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr speaks during a Make Indiana Healthy Again initiative event in Indianapolis, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Translating what Kennedy’s anti-vaccine allies hear in his response to the measles outbreak

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Believers say microdosing psychedelics helps them. Scientists are trying to measure the claims

Microdosing is gaining popularity with a new breed of health seekers. Some claim the practice gives them access to joy, creativity and connection they can’t get otherwise. (AP video: Manuel Valdez, Javier Arciga)

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Shingles is awful, but there may be another reason to get vaccinated. It may fight dementia

Swiss town lets doctors prescribe free museum visits as ‘art therapy’ for patients

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This photo provided by eGenesis on Jan. 18, 2024 shows a genetically modified pig liver in Massachusetts before transportation to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in December 2023. (eGenesis via AP)

FDA OKs trial of pig livers as dialysis-like treatment for liver failure

Pfizer signage is displayed at the Pfizer NYC Headquarters, Thursday, April 10, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Pfizer ends development of potential pill obesity treatment

A vaccination that includes a polio dose is prepared for a child at the Dallas County Health and Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Takeaways from AP’s report on how flat funding set stage for Texas measles outbreak, might fuel more

Cesar Acevedo, left, holds his infant son, Adriel Acevedo, as as nurse Tracey McElroy, right, prepares to give him a vaccination that included a polio dose at the Dallas County Health and Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Measles exploded in Texas after stagnant vaccine funding. New cuts threaten the same across the US

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., right, is accompanied by Susan Levy, Native Health Communications and Community Relations director, during a tour of the Native Health Mesa Food Distribution Center, in Mesa, Ariz., Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Kennedy says Health and Human Services will determine the cause of autism by September

A patient suffering from meningitis receives treatment at the University teaching hospital in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Hamza Suleiman)

Nigeria struggles to rein in a widespread meningitis outbreak that has killed at least 150

Former Food and Drug Administration vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks testifies during a hearing, May 11, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP, File)

Ex-official says he was forced out of FDA after trying to protect vaccine safety data from RFK Jr.

Sarah Makowicki sits in the Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford, Conn., on Thursday, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh)

The skyrocketing cost of weight-loss drugs has state Medicaid programs looking for a solution

Zainab Sakoteh sits in the Kingtom landfill in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Thursday, March 13, 2025, a place she frequents to meet the cartel that provide her with Kush. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)

Sierra Leone declared an emergency over a powerful synthetic drug but women were left behind

Donna Cooper holds up a dosage of Wegovy, a drug used for weight loss, at her home in Front Royal, Va., on Friday, March 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File)

Trump administration nixes plan to cover anti-obesity drugs through Medicare

Nigeria has received more than 1 million vaccines to fight an ongoing meningitis outbreak

A doctor looks at PET brain scans at Banner Alzheimers Institute in Phoenix on Aug. 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)

Shingles is awful, but here’s another reason to get vaccinated: It may fight dementia

Layoffs have begun at US health agencies charged with tracking disease, conducting research, regulating food and drugs

A Missouri and American flag fly outside Planned Parenthood in St. Louis, June 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Planned Parenthood St. Louis resumes surgical abortions, while Missouri blocks others

This image provided by Eli Lilly shows the company's new Alzheimer's drug Kisunla. (Eli Lilly and Company via AP)

European committee says Lilly Alzheimer’s drug shouldn’t get marketing approval

Health officials prepare to administer a vaccine in the Malawi village of Tomali with the world's first vaccine against malaria in a pilot program in Tomali, Dec. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Vaccines group Gavi says U.S. has not confirmed it will end funding

Mifepristone tablets are seen in a Planned Parenthood clinic Thursday, July 18, 2024, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Debate over the abortion pill mifepristone resurfaces after Makary is confirmed to head the FDA

Mariama Soriba undergoes a procedure for a contraceptive implant at the Marie Stopes Sierra Leone Reproductive Choices clinic in Njagbahun, Sierra Leone, Saturday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Caitlin Kelly)

Sierra Leone debates decriminalizing abortion as women and girls endanger their lives

West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey speaks during a news conference at the State Capitol in Charleston, W.Va., Jan. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham, file)

One state jumps into the fray over vaccine exemptions

Marianne de Reynier Nevsky, the cultural mediation manager in Neuchatel, left, and town council member Julie Courcier Delafontaine chat about a new "museum prescription" program outside the Ethnographic Museum of Neuchatel in Neuchatel, Switzerland, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Jamey Keaton)

Stressed? Sick? Swiss town lets doctors prescribe free museum visits as art therapy for patients

Jake Heinrichs hugs his wife, Rachel Chavkin, after speaking about early-stage Alzheimer's disease while inside their home in New York, on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)

Researchers find a hint at how to delay Alzheimer’s symptoms. Now they have to prove it

A barber cuts a client's hair at a barber shop in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Tuesday, March 17, 2020. (C.B. Schmelter/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP, File)

This cutting edge hair loss treatment is a repurposed drug from the 1990s

Purdue Pharma submits opioid lawsuit settlement plan, including up to $7 billion cash from Sacklers

A man waits for his drug's lab results at the Check Your Substance booth that offers free drug testing, where people can confirm their drug does not contain adulterants or fentanyl, at a three-day electronic music festival in Mexico City, late Friday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Aurea Del Rosario)

Facts, not fear: Inside Mexico’s pioneering drug harm reduction programs

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arrives before Ireland's Prime Minister Micheál Martin and President Donald Trump speak during an event in the East Room of the White House in Washington, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

RFK Jr.’s first month as health secretary: Touting French fries and casting doubts on vaccines

A Red Star hen, a hybrid breed that lays large brown eggs, stands on eggs inside her coop at Historic Wagner Farm, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in Glenview, Ill. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley, File)

Vaccinating poultry could help cut soaring egg prices but US remains hesitant

Former Congressman Dr. David Weldon speaks in The Villages, Fla., on May 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Brendan Farrington, File)

CDC nominee Dave Weldon is likely to be pressed on his vaccine views at Senate hearing

Mifepristone tablets are seen in a Planned Parenthood clinic Thursday, July 18, 2024, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Louisiana woman pleads not guilty to a felony in historic abortion case

This photo provided by the National Institutes of Health shows the James H. Shannon Building on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md., in 2015. (Lydia Polimeni/NIH via AP)

Researchers are learning the Trump administration axed their work to improve vaccination

Martin Makary nominated to serve as Commissioner of Food and Drugs at the Department of Health and Human Services, testifies before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Capitol Hill Thursday, March 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

FDA nominee sidesteps questions on abortion pill, agency layoffs and other issues