Pharmacology

Screening Microorganinism To Find New Antibiotics

Biologists have found used to characterize new antibiotics can screen natural products quickly for compounds capable of controlling antibiotic resistant bacteria. Antibiotic resistance is increasing at an alarming rate. The Review on Antimicrobial Resista ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2015 - 7:39am

Cough Medicines That Contain Codeine- Warning From Doctors Or Health Scare?

An article describes the first published case of confusional state in a healthy 14-year-old girl attributed to excessive consumption of over-the-counter cough medicine that contained codeine. Codeine is a widely prescribed painkiller, but it can also be p ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 23 2015 - 10:51am

Vitamin D Does Not Change Risk Or Severity Of Sleep Apnea

Supplement fads come and go and the most recent one to take the U.S. by storm has been to list vitamin D as both cause and cure of just about everything- and make some money selling vitamin supplements. It takes a while for science to catch up to spurious ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 26 2015 - 11:06am

The Hidden Cost Of Legal Marijuana: More Alcohol Abuse Too

Recreational marijuana use is now legal in four states and "medical" marijuana in 23 states. Research on legalization policies has focused largely on direct impact- how they impact marijuana access and use. What is little discussed is that marij ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2015 - 8:00am

Palbociclib Breast Cancer Drug May Be Effective Against Other Types Of Cancer

Palbociclib, a new oral drug with efficacy in combating breast cancer both alone and in combination with endocrine therapy, also has potential to combat other types of cancer, according to a literature review and additional research in JAMA Oncology. Palb ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2015 - 8:00am

Perhaps Rethinking Chronic Pain Can Curb The Opioid Abuse Epidemic

Over the last few decades, medicine has witnessed a sea change in attitudes toward chronic pain, and particularly toward opioids. While these changes were intended to bring relief to many, they have also fed an epidemic of prescription opioid and heroin a ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 12 2016 - 12:04am

Ayahuasca: A Psychoactive For The Shamanist In You

Ayahuasca, known by various names by different indigenous groups in South America, is a generic term commonly associated with preparations of the mildly psychoactive vine Banisteriopsis caapi. Ayahuasca literally translates from the Quechua language of th ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 23 2016 - 9:00am

Teens In Hawaii Who Use E-cigarettes More Likely To Try The Real Thing Later

There are not many "nicotine naïve" teens using e-cigarettes- who have never tried cigarettes- but of those few who do, they are more likely to try the real thing a year later than those who have never vaped, indicates survey results in the jour ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 25 2016 - 8:30pm

Painkiller Use During Rat Pregnancy Linked To Drop In Female Offspring Fertility

Epigenetics is spreading its wings out to the painkiller world, at least in an animal model. Of course, it is well-known that just about everything has been linked to causing cancer in rats. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has studi ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2016 - 8:46am

Texas A&M Suggests Carnitine Supplement Reduces Risk Of Autism

Folic acid has long been touted as an important supplement for expectant mothers, to prevent defects in the baby’s developing brain and spinal cord. It is added as a supplement to breads, pastas, rice and cereals to help ensure that women are exposed to s ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2016 - 12:30pm