Pharmacology

Aspirin Doesn't Reduce Risk Of Major Cardiovascular Events

You probably know someone who takes an aspirin to reduce chances of a heart attack, just like you may know someone who says wine, containing alcohol, a true class 1 carcinogen, is 'good for you.' They were never settled science, they were instead ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 29 2022 - 1:23pm

The Dose Makes The Poison- And That Is Why Venom May Soon Be A New Medicine

In the 16th century, it was shown by Paracelsus that 'the dose makes the poison'- too much medicine or anything else could kill while too little did nothing. In the 21st century activists have sought to dispel that. They claim homeopathic effects ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 16 2022 - 4:19pm

Media Hype Creates Demand For Black Market Knockoffs Of Molnupiravir And Nirmatrelvir

Antivirals, such as Merck’s molnupiravir and Pfizer’s nirmatrelvir, are given to people infected with COVID-19 when prescribed by a doctor or as part of a clinical trial. Yet entire websites exist that sell it without prescription anyway. COVID-19 caused n ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 1 2022 - 9:07am

Moderna Spikevax COVID-19 Vaccine Linked To Higher Myocarditis Risk Than Pfizer BioNTech

Heart inflammation after a COVID-19 vaccine is very rare but epidemiology exists to vreate exploratory between products and outcomes and a recent analysis showed incidence of myocarditis, pericarditis or myopericarditis is two- to threefold higher after a ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2022 - 3:55pm

Waterhemp Weed Has Evolved Into A Major Pest- Blame Farmers?

Over 200 years ago, the age of modern agriculture began with fertilizer that wouldn't give you food poisoning if traces of it remained, like manure will. A new paper found what you would expect, and a key reason why legacy pesticides used in the organ ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 9 2022 - 10:43am

A Drug To Burn Brown Fat And Keep You Warm

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding basic research on non-genetic drugs that can temporarily enhance the human body’s ability to endure extreme cold exposure. The human body’s response to cold involves two biological proce ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2023 - 8:43am

Albicidin: It Kills Sugar Cane But May One Day Help Humans

Antibiotics are popular in America among everyone but pharmaceutical companies. Part of the reason is cultural; everyone wants antibiotics to be cheap, but want to be able to sue companies if anything new causes a side effect. Meanwhile, the government has ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2023 - 11:16am

CBD Has Broken Desire For Clinton-Era Free Passes Of Supplements By FDA

IN 1994, President Bill Clinton and Senator Tom Harkin set off a supplement boom- by decreeing that supplements could be exempt from real FDA oversight as long as they didn't claim to cure cancer or kill anyone (which companies in that market continue ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 26 2023 - 11:11am

Hong Kong Had 90% Fewer COVID-19 Deaths After Booster Shots

The booster dose of either the BNT162b2 mRNA (Fosun-BioNTech, equivalent to Pfizer-BioNTech outside China) or CoronaVac (Sinovac) COVID-19 vaccine was correlated to a 90 percent reduction in death in people with multiple co-morbidities compared to 2 doses, ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2023 - 10:56am

New Potential Treatment For Benzodiazepine-Resistant Epilepsy

A new small molecule may help people with benzodiazepine-resistant epilepsy. Epilepsy affects an estimated 3.4 million people in the U.S. and millions more worldwide and drugs work for most, but for the rest, Uncontrolled epilepsy and resulting frequent an ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 15 2023 - 12:45pm