Pharmacology

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 - Anna Ohlden - 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 - Anna Ohlden - 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

Glandular Supplements A 'Waste Of Money' In Bodybuilding

Glandular nutritional supplements, sold on the premise that they can help bodybuilders, have been slammed as "bogus" by the founder of a British nutritional company.  The supplements in question include those containing the trace mineral Boron a ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 29 2011 - 11:25am

I Am Going Nuts, Really

Over all that quantum physics lately, I have totally neglected a much more important issue: our happiness. And I mean true happiness of course, not the fake stuff you get from a loving family and friends as the slave drivers try to make you believe is wha ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 17 2011 - 10:04am

Nutty Pictures

“ I am going Nuts ” introduced a misunderstood little gem, the Nutmeg, and expounded a little on its preparation. Pure myristicine without safrole, elemicin, and likely unknown ones inside nutmeg, does not result in the same effects as freshly ground nutm ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 17 2011 - 10:06am

Nutmeg Liquor

“ I am going Nuts ” introduced a misunderstood gem, the Nutmeg, and mentioned the problem of the nuts being very diverse, as you can see in the picture below, and thus a little difficult to dose. One solution is to produce liquor, or in other words, perfo ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 17 2011 - 2:06pm