Pharmacology

Opioid Addicts Are Less Likely To Use Legal Opioids At The End Of Their Lives

With a porous southern border, street fentanyl continues to enter the United States and be purchased by recreational drug users, all while the U.S. government continues to treat suffering cancer patients like criminals when it comes to legitimate pain medi ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 29 2024 - 10:22am

Kratom: This Supplement Can Kill Godzilla But You Can Buy It In Gas Stations

U.S. Marshals, acting on a request from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration seized yet another ridiculous "dietary supplement," and this one's a doozy. About 90,000 bottles of a bunch of garbage with the brand name RelaKzpro, which is sold ...

Article - Josh Bloom - May 2 2024 - 11:00am

Amanita Muscaria Mushrooms Are An Alternative Medicine Fad More Toxic Than Fentanyl

Online supplement marketers prey on consumers by exploiting the margins of President Bill Clinton's 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, which exempts supplements from FDA oversight if they state in fine print, "This statement has no ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 10 2024 - 12:27pm

Sickle Cell Disease: A Pill Cure In Mice And Monkeys

Scientists led by Dr. Pamela Ting have reported the discovery and characterization of the first molecular glue degraders of the WIZ transcription factor for fetal hemoglobin derepression in Sickle Cell Disease, which means a pill-based therapy for humans c ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2024 - 9:47am

Just Correlation, Not Science: Ozempic 'Leads' To Less Dementia

If epidemiologists were held accountable for the high costs, drug shortages, and food and chemical misinformation they cause, nonsense like claiming a type 2 diabetes drug that is popular off-label for weight loss in rich people also prevent dementia would ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 16 2024 - 3:24pm

Trust: Why Pharmacists Do More To Lower Blood Pressure Than Doctors

A recent paper did something interesting with data from 100 hypertension trials around the world- it compared blood pressure reductions by the type of healthcare professionals who led the interventions. The results were that pharmacists achieved the greate ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2024 - 9:24am

Government Created High Insulin Costs, But Here Is How One State Got Around It

American health care is expensive as are drugs. Both are due to government involvement. If a company is forced to spend 10 years and a billion extra dollars in clinical trials that don't improve safety, they are just placebos so government can say the ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 9 2024 - 1:51pm

Mpox Vaccine Effective In Preventing Infection

A health data simulation has concluded that a single dose of the Modified vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic (MVA-BN) was 58% effective in protecting again mpox infection, a disease caused by infection with the Monkeypox virus, which is most likely in men who ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2024 - 10:55am

Marijuana For ADHD?

Cannabis and THC, its main psychoactive compound, have been endorsed by people suffering from anxiety, sleep problems, epilepsy, and cancer pain. What is missing from such claims is a plausible biological hypothesis for how it can be everything to everyone ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 2 2024 - 1:22pm

Alcohol Increases Your Pain Threshold- And Your Threshold For Inflicting It

"I feel your pain" is a common empathy cliché but we know the opposite is true in some, and it changes how they interact with the world.  After Dutch film director Theo van Gogh put out "Submission: Part 1", which criticized the treatme ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 6 2024 - 4:14pm