Swiss generic drug manufacturer Sandoz plans to launch unbranded weight-loss drugs in Canada at discounts of up to 70% compared to branded versions once patents begin to expire next year, CEO Richard ...

A new study shows that LSD is highly effective at treating generalized anxiety disorder for up to 12 weeks with just a single dose. And it is fast-acting.

LSD was initially synthesized from ergot in 1938 by Dr. Arthur Stoll, Sandoz’s director (and Hofmann’s boss). The junior researcher stumbled upon it while looking for a drug that could treat ...

Hofmann at the time worked for Sandoz in Basel, investigating the medicinal properties of alkaloids in rye ergot, a common fungus. LSD-25, as it became known, was marketed as a psychiatric drug under ...

A phase 3 trial is still needed. However, if a single dose of LSD does work for 12 weeks, then this is truly remarkable. We could be on the verge of a new era of treatments for mental health problems.

For a time, Sandoz sold LSD 25 under the name Delysid, encouraging doctors to try it themselves. It was one of the strongest drugs in medicine — with just one gram enough to drug an estimated ...

Working in his lab at the pharmaceutical company Sandoz in 1938, chemist Albert Hoffmann was investigating an alkaloid from the ergot fungus in search of a new drug that would act on the brain to ...