Pharmacology

A novel RP-HPLC method for analysis of paracetamol, pseudoephedrine, caffeine and chlorpheniramine maleate in pharmaceutical dosage forms

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: To develop a RP-HPLC method for the determination of Caffeine, Paracetamol, Pseudoephedrine hydrochloride and Chlorpheniramine maleate in pharmaceutical products.METHOD: HPLC analysis was carried out by using a C18 (150mm, 4.6mm and 3μm ...

Blog Post - Dr. Varaprasad Bo... - May 14 2011 - 3:54am

'Clot Busters' No Better Than Traditional Blood Thinners For Lung Blood Clots

Thrombolytic agents, commonly called "clot-busting" drugs, are frequently used in the treatment patients with blood clots in the lungs but a new study says clot-busting drug are no more effective than traditional blood thinners for the majority o ...

Article - News Staff - May 16 2011 - 1:49pm

An Ode To The Health Miracle That Is Coffee

There are perennials in the plant kingdom, flowers that bloom each year, and in culture as well.  Each year, for example, there will be a new go-to cliché in football.    Many of us who have watched for a long time can even tell you what year a broadcast w ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 22 2011 - 6:55pm

Does Corn Sugar Make You Fatter Than Sucrose?

Does high-fructose corn syrup, a common ingredient in soft drinks and snacks and too many products to count, make you fatter than sugar?   The Sugar Association, Inc., which represents sugar growers, certainly wants you to think so. But, like cultural pund ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 7 2011 - 6:53pm

STELARA(R) Shows Significant Improvement In Quality Of Life In Japanese Psoriasis Patients

SEOUL, South Korea, May 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/--  New data presented at the World Congress of Dermatology (WCD) have shown treatment with STELARA(R) significantly improved the health-related quality of life in Japanese psoriasis patients.[1]  Psoriasis, a ...

Article - Newswire - May 27 2011 - 1:48pm

ImmunoCAP(R) Used In Largest Cross-sectional Allergy Study Ever

UPPSALA, Sweden, May 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/-- Phadia, the worldwide leader of in vitro allergy diagnostics, is pleased to contribute to the largest cross-sectional allergy study ever conducted through the use of its ImmunoCAP(R) Specific IgE blood test, th ...

Article - Newswire - May 27 2011 - 1:49pm

An Invisibility Cloak For Living Cells

Using living cells as more efficient tools for delivering medicines  to diseased parts of the body has  gotten a little closer.    In a new report, Dayang Wang and colleagues explain that the human body's efficiency in getting rid of foreign substance ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 15 2011 - 10:39am

Want Rotting Skin? Enjoy Some Cocaine

Maybe your need to feel like a Hollywood celebrity outweighs the long-published perils of cocaine use and you just need a little something to push you back over the edge to sanity- if so, crusty, purplish areas of dead skin that are extremely painful and c ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2011 - 3:29pm

Is There A Coffee Drinking Pathology?

Addiction is a beast, I am told.  Perhaps I am addicted to coffee- I have given it up on occasion for a few months, like I have meat, pastas and breads, but never quit like people quit smoking or heroin.  If it's my only vice, and it would seem to be ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 23 2011 - 4:29pm

That Diet Soda May Be Fooling You

A pair of studies presented Saturday and today at the American Diabetes Association's Scientific Sessions in San Diego suggest diet sodas may be a dietary head fake for the body.  Epidemiologists from the School of Medicine at The University of Texas ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2011 - 4:18pm