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Cluster busters

Ignored by mainstream medicine, people who suffer bizarrely painful headaches are helping to test hallucinogenic drugs as a cure. Arran Frood talks to these citizen scientists.

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Frood, A. Cluster busters. Nat Med 13, 10–11 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0107-10

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