Pharmacology

Might antioxidant vitamins such as vitamins C and E or provitamin A (beta-carotene) be able to prevent cancer and other chronic diseases and hence prolong life? A recent study indicates that vitamins may play an important role in the prevention of such di ...

Article - Newswire - Aug 25 2011 - 9:56pm

New Mothers And Pain: Oxycodone No Safer Than Codeine For Breastfed Infants

Postpartum pain management using the opioid codeine has been common and, until recently, it was considered safe to breastfeed- the death of an infant exposed to codeine through breast milk led health care providers to question the safety of the drug when ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 6 2011 - 11:09am

Ephedra Aphrodisiac From The Axis Of Evil

Yesterday, I enjoyed a stimulating tea that has been enjoyed all over the northern hemisphere for thousands of years. We prepared (see pictures below) and consumed early in the morning together with some nutmeg, after which we went shopping, exercised, pl ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 9 2011 - 12:46pm

NHS Criticized For Overspending Nearly $1 Billion On Synthetic Insulin

The National Health Service (NHS), the United Kingdom's public health care systems, wasted $976 million during the years 2000-2009 on synthetic forms of insulin, when the recommended human alternatives, which are considerably cheaper, would have been ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 22 2011 - 5:01am

Women: More Coffee, Less Depression

Women who increase consumption of caffeinated coffee have lower risk of depression, according to a report in Archives of Internal Medicine. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 26 2011 - 6:30pm

Is Coffee A Gateway Drug To Cocaine?

It took years of mismanagement, printing Monopoly money by the federal government, and runaway unemployment to get groups claiming to represent 99% of Americans protesting progressive fiscal policy on Wall Street and in other cities. You may disagree on t ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2011 - 11:06am

EGCG: Green Tea May Help Lose Weight Too

Once a product starts to get credit for doing everything, there is a chance you may be in the crackpot zone. If so, look for the downfall of green tea in 2012 because a new study says the Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) in green tea prevents weight gai ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2011 - 2:49pm

Antidepressant Study In Mothers May Show Autism Link In Offspring

Rats exposed to the antidepressant citalopram, a serotonin-selective reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), just before and after birth showed substantial brain abnormalities and behaviors, according to a new study. The long-distance connections between the two hemi ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 25 2011 - 7:30am

Tacca Chantrieri- Bat Plant May Have Cancer Fighting Power

Researchers have pinpointed the cancer-fighting potential in the bat plant, or Tacca chantrieri. Susan Mooberry, Ph.D., leader of the Experimental Development Therapeutics Program at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, has been wo ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2011 - 3:00pm

Avastin Study Proves Drug Delays Ovarian Cancer Progression

An international clinical trial shows that treating ovarian cancer with the drug bevacizumab ("Avastin") delays the disease and may also improve survival. The findings in the New England Journal of Medicine report that the drug halted the cance ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2011 - 9:30am