A UCC researcher is to travel to Silicon Valley in California next week in a bid to commercialise a new malaria vaccine patch that has been developed in Cork.

EXPERTS have issued warnings over a new generation of head shop drugs containing “mysterious and unknown” substances which could be toxic.

WHILE legislation banning all mind-altering drugs is just days away from becoming law, manufacturers of head shop products are still busily churning out new drugs.

NINE new legal highs are being sold in head shops, replacing drugs banned by the Government last month.

FOR something not fit for human consumption, it’s a strange sales pitch: “Introducing our New Party Powder, Pure NRG. This 1 gram Party Powder gives a little lift to any party and keeps you going all night long.”