Health Blog Obit: Murray Jarvik Studied LSD, Developed Nicotine Patch

Murray Jarvik, a UCLA pharmacologist who did early research on LSD and later contributed to the invention of the nicotine patch, died last week of congestive heart failure. He was 84. His work on LSD began in 1953, when he accepted a fellowship at Mount Sinai in New York. Though he didn’t know it at [...]