Pharmacology

Side Effects Update: Lecanemab To Slow Alzheimer's

In 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration an Alzheimer’s therapy shown in clinical trials to modestly slow disease progression but side effects, brain swelling and bleeding, occurred in some. Though clinical trials have taken twice as long and cost tw ...

Article - News Staff - May 12 2025 - 11:16am

Is Everything You Eat A Drug?

Did you ever have breast milk or spinach? You might as well start shooting up heroin. If dihydrogen monoxide doesn't scare you enough, food activists have been rehashing an old term- opiates.  ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 23 2025 - 8:42am

Mountain Doomed: CO2 Bubbles And Heart Attacks

"Carbonated drinks linked with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of cardiac origin" Right away, this looks suspicious.  "Linked with" is a standard junk science term that translates roughly into:  "Let's see if I can get some he ...

Blog Post - Josh Bloom - Jun 5 2025 - 11:49am

New Vaccine For 21 Strains Of Pneumococcal Disease

A new international, randomized clinical trial is evaluating a vaccine developed to protect against 21 strains of pneumococcus, up from the current 13 strains covered now. That means greater protection to babies against the common infection that causes pne ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2025 - 1:47pm

What To Do If The Dog Gets Into Your Cocaine

Cocaine toxicosis in animals is a real thing. You shouldn't do cocaine, even during the Biden administration it didn't become legal and it's more dangerous than that kratom people buy in a gas station. Drug dealers secretly despise their cus ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 25 2025 - 10:27am

Antibiotics 1700 Years Ago- In Beer!

Want to make people healthier?  Put more goof stuff in beer.  And don't count out the smarts of ancient people in fun ways to stay healthy. While antibiotics officially date to the discovery of penicillin in 1928, a chemical analysis of the bones of a ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2025 - 10:11pm

Coca Leaf: Native Heritage Or Dangerous Drug?

Due to President Clinton's 1994 DSHEA law (Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994), and diverting science funding to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a large number of people believe acupuncture works and th ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 16 2025 - 8:45am

American Heart Association: Thank Ozempic For Less Type 2 DIabetes

At the upcoming American Heart Association meeting, participants will learn of the epidemiological results of 63,656 military veterans with Type 2 diabetes in the Million Veteran Program who took GLP-1 receptor agonists (semaglutide- "Wegovy", du ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 3 2025 - 10:58am

Metformin Diabetes Drug Used Off-Label Also Reduces Irregular Heartbeats

Adults with atrial fibrillation (AFib) who are not diabetic but are overweight and took the diabetes medication metformin after a rhythm-correction procedure had decreased risk of AFib episodes for a year. Weight loss would usually be a confounder, since l ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 10 2025 - 3:32pm

$0.50 Pantoprazole For Stomach Bleeding In ICU Patients Could Save Families Thousands Of Dollars

The inexpensive medication pantoprazole prevents potentially serious stomach bleeding in critically ill patients and can save consumers and the government thousands of dollars. The results of a new study show that when prescribed in hospital for mechanical ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 3 2025 - 10:09am