Pharmacology

A biopharma is hoping to add to the deluge of drugs by the end of this year, but in virgin territory for the pharma industry. A new orphan indication? A disease that has previously been ignored? Nope- for that horrific debilitating disease that strikes fea ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Sep 25 2009 - 9:00am

Dabigatran Blood Thinning Drug Is Safer Than Rat Poison- Study

In an article reviewed by Faculty of 1000: Biology and Medicine, Faculty Members Robert Ruff, Brian Olshansky and Luis Ruilope say the blood-thinner dabigatran is shown to protect against stroke, blood clotting and major bleeding as effectively as warfarin ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2009 - 10:21am

Smartness In A Bottle: Nootropics Reach Concern Levels In Students

Estimates can be funny things because usually they're brought up by people with agendas rather than people interested in objective analysis. Some estimates in competitive sports put athletic doping usage at 95%, for example, which sounds ridiculously ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2009 - 8:24pm

Can Herbal Medicines Reduce Risk Of Diabetes?

Herbal medicines are more common in Asian countries to treat pre-diabetes (impaired glucose tolerance or IGT), the precursor of diabetes but is there any hard scientific evidence to confidently recommend their use? No. That doesn't mean they aren ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2009 - 10:06am

Mediterranean Diet And Depression

Can diet make you less likely to develop depression? A new report from the University of Navarra published in Archives of General Psychiatry. says people who follow 'Mediterranean dietary pattern' heavier in nuts and fish appear less likely to ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2009 - 9:56am

Why Don't Antidepressants Work?

Antidepressants are ineffective in fully 50% of the people who take them. It is clearly early 20th century medicine, where you keep trying things and hope something happens while pharmaceutical companies who impress doctors the most make the most money. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 26 2009 - 3:01pm

M2 Protein And Antioxidants May Be Key To Reducing H1H1 Influenza A Damage

With all of the concern/hype/hysteria over vaccines for H1N1 influenza, a team of Alabama researchers say they may have found a way to protect lungs from all strains of the flu—antioxidants. In an article appearing in the FASEB Journal they say that antiox ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 29 2009 - 11:51am

Advil, Tylenol And Others May Blunt The Power Of Flu Vaccine

Richard P. Phipps, Ph.D., professor of Environmental Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester Medical Center cautions that during flu vaccination season many common pain killers – Advil, Tylenol, aspirin – at ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2009 - 11:33am

Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) Nanoparticles In Household Products Linked To Cancer In Mice

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles are found in everything from cosmetics to sunscreen to paint and vitamins, and have caused systemic genetic damage in mice, according to a study conducted by researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 17 2009 - 10:07am

Passive Smoke Exposure Results In Nicotine Dependence?

If you start smoking cigarettes, chances are you'll become addicted. But that's only part of the story, according to new research published in Psychopharmacology. After exposing rats to passive smoke and studying how their brains responded, the ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2009 - 2:50pm