Pharmacology

Less Salt Intake Credited With Lower Cardiovascular Disease Deaths

The 15% fall in dietary salt intake, which is implicated in increased blood pressure, over the past decade in England is likely to have had a key role in the 40% drop in deaths from heart disease and stroke over the same period, according to a paper in BM ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2014 - 11:10am

Casual Marijuana Use Linked To Brain Abnormalities

Young adults who used marijuana recreationally show significant abnormalities in two key brain regions that are important in emotion and motivation, according to a study in the Journal of Neuroscience. The authors document how casual use of marijuana is r ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2014 - 5:24pm

If Parents Won't Give Their Kids Vaccines, Will They Give Their Child A Drug For Measles?

Though measles outbreaks remain somewhat under control, they aren't going down. Deaths have held steady at around 150,000 per year since 2007. The developing world can get something of a pass for not being able to contain measles. In anti-science hot ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 16 2014 - 4:06pm

Probiotics Ineffective For Infant Colic Symptoms

Colic affects about one in five infants in the United States annually and accounts for numerous pediatric visits during the first several months after birth. Among the many claims of probiotic marketing is that it helps with reduction of colic symptoms bu ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2014 - 3:58pm

28 Percent Of Morning After Pills In Study Are Counterfeit

Emergency contraceptive pills haven't reduced teen pregnancies or abortions but at least in America those incidents have not risen- in South America, unprotected sex is really taking a pregnancy gamble, even if there is access to a morning after pill ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 18 2014 - 5:34pm

10 Edible Chinese Flowers That Work As Well As Any Other Antioxidant

The latest fad in implied health benefits that can slip under the regulatory radar are edible flowers from China.  Why implied? Because they are rich in phenolics and have good antioxidant capacity.  What will that do? No one knows. Antioxidants haven ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 21 2014 - 11:08am

Tart Cherry Juice Increases Sleepy Time For Insomniacs

Tart cherry juice in the morning and evening may help you sleep better at night, according to a paper presented today at the American Society of Nutrition meeting. Insomnia is a common health problem among older adults, impacting an estimated 23 to 34 per ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 28 2014 - 6:00pm

Antidepressants Increase Risk Of Suicide In Kids And Young Adults

Matthew Miller, M.D., Sc.D., of the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, and colleagues, writing in JAMA (doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.1053) analyzed data from 162,625 people (between the ages of 10 to 64 years) with depression who started antidepre ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 28 2014 - 5:19pm

Figuring Out The Mystery Of Thalidomide

In the 1950s and 1960s, pregnant women with morning sickness were often prescribed thalidomide. Shortly after the medicine was released on the market, a reported 10,000 infants were born with an extreme form of the rare congenital phocomelia syndrome, whi ...

Article - News Staff - May 1 2014 - 11:00am

ADHD Medication Misuse Isn't Cheating, It's A Competitive Advantage- If You're Rich

In the 1960s, "speed freaks", people hooked on amphetamines, still avoided Ritalin. It was too dangerous. In the 1990s, Ritalin suddenly became a medication. For kids diagnosed with ADD, it sped them up so much it basically slowed them down. But ...

Article - News Staff - May 3 2014 - 9:30am