Pharmacology

Why I Changed My Mind About Vitamin D

Everyone loves D, the sunshine vitamin. Doctors, patients and the media have been enamored with vitamin D supplements for decades. As well as their clear benefit in curing severe vitamin D deficiencies, endless headlines hail their magical ability to redu ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 31 2016 - 12:22pm

Dietary Supplements Could Seriously Mess With Your Medication

Doctors typically prescribe several drugs to patients with mental health conditions in order to treat the various symptoms. For example, a person with bipolar disorder may be prescribed one drug to treat mania and another to treat depression. But there’s ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 3 2016 - 8:30am

Generic Drug Price Gouging Has Physicians Raising Red Flags

Pharmaceutical companies take a lot of cultural heat for high prices, politicians routinely criticize them to score political points, but at least they did real discovery. One out of 5,000 candidates will make it to market, and then it has to be successful ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2016 - 8:28am

AKT1 Gene Could Help Identify Psychosis, Memory Loss Risk In Marijuana Users

Researchers have identified a gene which can be used to predict how susceptible a young person is to the mind-altering effects of smoking marijuana, an increasing concern as the cultural movement shifts toward legalization.  Around one percent of cannabis ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2016 - 11:41am

Antidepressants Linked To Tooth Implant Failure

Antidepressants, commonly used to treat anxiety, pain and other disorders, may play a role in dental implant failure, according to a new pilot study which found that the use of antidepressants increased the odds of implant failure by four times.  While th ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 8 2016 - 2:44pm

Vitamin Supplement Cocktail Linked To Slowed Hereditary Deafness

A regimen of beta carotene (precursor to vitamin A), vitamins C and E and magnesium has been linked to slow progression of hereditary deafness in the mice with a connexin 26 gene deletion. Mutations in this gene are a leading cause of genetic hearing loss ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2016 - 8:30am

Cat Noses, Beards And All The Other Places Scientists Are Looking For New Antibiotics

Many of the drugs we use in hospitals, such as antibiotics, antifungals and anti-cancer drugs, are produced by bacteria that live in the soil beneath our feet. ...

Article - Matt Hutchings - Mar 22 2016 - 6:37am

Fish Oil Supplements Don't Give You An Advantage

An investigation on the effect of fish oil supplements for muscle growth reveals the tablets do not give gym-goers an advantage in the weight room. Supplements are a protected class in the United States, easily claiming drug effects without being forced to ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 23 2016 - 3:06pm

Botswana Study Shows 96 Percent Rate Of Viral Suppression For Patients On HIV Drugs

Boston, MA- Botswana appears to have achieved very high rates of HIV diagnosis, treatment, and viral suppression--much better than most Western nations, including the United States--according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health a ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2016 - 8:09am

Cold-fX Works As Well As Homeopathy Or Any Other Placebo- And Valeant May Lose A Lot Money Denying That

Valeant Pharmaceuticals is in the British Columbia Supreme Court hoping to avoid lawsuit class-action status for ignoring their own scientists and claiming the popular "cold and flu remedy" Cold-fX actually works for cold and flu. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 4 2016 - 10:34am