Meditating on psychedelics. A randomized placebo-controlled study of DMT and harmine in a mindfulness retreat.

Background: In recent years, both meditation and psychedelics have attracted rapidly increasing scientific interest. While the current state of evidence suggests the promising potential of psychedelics, such as psilocybin, to enhance meditative training, it remains equivocal whether these effects are specifically bound to psilocybin or if other classical psychedelics might show synergistic effects with meditation practice. One particularly promising candidate is -dimethyltryptamine (DMT), an active ingredient of ayahuasca.

Willingness to donate organs - an anonymised survey in the emergency department.

Background: In Switzerland, 519 patients received an organ in 2020. In total, 2124 patients were on the donor organ waiting list in 2020. There are many more people who need an organ than people willing to donate one.