Other examples of self-medication in animals include Alaskan brown bears and North American bisons. “To rid themselves of tapeworms, brown bears consume sharp-edged sedge grass, while bison ...

May 24 (UPI) --Animals self-medicate with plants − behavior people have observed and emulated for millennia A goat with an arrow wound nibbles the medicinal herb dittany. O. Dapper, CC BY ...

Birds do it, chimps do it, even monarch butterflies do it – and by paying more attention to how animals self-medicate, we can find new treatments for ourselves ...

Mr. de Roode, a biology professor at Emory University, chronicles animal self-medication in everything from caterpillars and bees to pigs and dolphins. The drugs take the form of minerals ...

Quick administration of naloxone – also known as Narcan – by a first responder, loved one or bystander can revive an opioid user who has overdosed. If administered in time, naloxone is effective in ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) I conducted this new systematic review to collate information on the prevalence of ...