Pharmacology

E-Cigarettes More Successful Than Willpower Or Nicotine Patches For Quitting Smoking

People attempting to quit smoking without professional help are approximately 60% more likely to report succeeding if they use e-cigarettes than if they use willpower alone or over-the-counter nicotine replacement therapies such as patches or gum, accordi ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2014 - 8:57am

Crazy Joe Mercola Vs. Aspartame: Who Wins?

Is life great or what? We have all kinds of wonderful choices available to us. Yankees or Mets (better still, neither), Frosted Flakes or Cap'n Crunch, Homeland or The Walking Dead. Awesome.  And now we get to choose between an old artificial sweetene ...

Article - Josh Bloom - May 22 2014 - 7:31am

Vitamin E Is Bad? Canola, Soybean And Corn Oils Linked To Asthma

A large study may upend our understanding of vitamin E, a vital antioxidant, and ties the increasing consumption of supposedly healthy vitamin E-rich oils such as canola, soybean and corn  to the rising incidence of lung inflammation and, possibly, asthma ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2014 - 5:30pm

Medical Catfish: A Quicker Way To Determine Who's Faking It On The Internet

Counterfeit medicines have skyrocketed in recent years and the gullibility of the public has been bolstered by conspiracy theories about profits by pharmaceutical companies- they believe that every country must be making the same products free, or at leas ...

Article - News Staff - May 21 2014 - 8:07am

Cannabis For Seizures? Weeding Through Evidence

The therapeutic potential of marijuana and pure cannabidiol (CBD), an active substance in the cannabis plant, for neurologic conditions is debatable- though so far the debate has mostly been anecdotes against science. A series of articles published in Epi ...

Article - News Staff - May 22 2014 - 11:29am

Heroin: Because It's Cheaper And Easier To Get Than Prescription Painkillers

A nationwide survey indicates that heroin users are attracted to heroin not only for the high, but because it is less expensive and easier to get than prescription painkillers. ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2014 - 6:30pm

Why There May Never Be A Birth Control Pill For Men

A new study in mice has shown that a previously developed male hormonal (testosterone) oral contraceptive method is unable to stop the production and / or the release of sperm.   ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2014 - 9:32am

Antidepressants And Obesity Linked

Anti-depressants are having a bad decade. They've been increasingly implicated in acts of violence- it used to be that if a person had been treated by multiple therapists, society had done its part, and now society wonders if over-medicating and creat ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2014 - 3:00pm

Cannabis Use Linked To Sperm Size, Shape And Infertility In Men

Young men who use cannabis may be putting their fertility at risk by inadvertently affecting the size and shape of their sperm according to research published today (Thursday 5 June 2014). In the world's largest study to investigate how common lifest ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2014 - 8:58pm

How To Understand A Pharmaceutical Label

Active pharmaceutical ingredient is the term used to refer to the biologically active component of a drug product, such as a tablet or capsule.  Drug products are usually composed of several components and the active pharmaceutical ingredient is the prima ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 5 2014 - 9:56am