Pharmacology

Prescription Opioid Use By Congressional District

If you want to map opioid prescription use, you can do it, right down to Congressional district. The highest rates are in the southeastern U.S., Appalachia and the rural west, all areas where there is more manual labor, according to an analysis  in America ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2018 - 4:41pm

Pfizer Drug Tafamidis Reduces Risk Of Rare Heart Disease 30 Percent

Tafamidis meglumine (trade name: Vyndaqel®) was approved in November 2011 for the treatment of transthyretin amyloidosis in adults, a rare disorder ("orphan disease") caused by a defective gene and is associated with progressive nerve damage. Now ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 27 2018 - 8:43am

KCNK13- A Potential Target For The Treatment Of Alcohol Abuse

Alcohol is a drug which needs no introduction given its (multi)age-old impact on humanity. One crucial question is “what makes some people crave alcohol in excess acutely ie a single sitting and/or chronically over time”? Scientists have long known that th ...

Article - Scott Beers - Nov 27 2018 - 12:44pm

NanoFlu And ResVax: Make Or Break For Novavax

In 2016, a Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine candidate named the RSV F Vaccine failed in Phase III trials, which could have been a crippling blow for Novavax, but they may be on the road to recovery. Companies have to have Phase III trials before t ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 8 2018 - 5:45pm

Compounds From Coffee Offer Hope For Alzheimer's And Parkinson's Diseases.

An exciting new class of potential inhibitors of both Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease has been isolated from coffee. Dr. Donald Weaver, co-director of the Kembril Brain Institute in Toronto, Canada explains: “The consumption of coffee seems to ...

Article - Scott Beers - Nov 27 2018 - 12:43pm

Could A Vaccine Help Stop The Fentanyl Crisis?

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis of five years of death certificates (2011-2016) found that among drug overdose deaths 29 percent were due to fentanyl by 2016, a huge leap from 4 percent in 2011, when oxycodone was most dangerous at 13 ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 18 2018 - 10:19am

Pomegranates Provide Potent Lead Compounds for the Treatment of IBD

     Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) consists of Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis. Both are the result of dysregulation of the immune system leading to intestinal inflammation and microbial dysbiosis. ...

Blog Post - Scott Beers - Jan 24 2019 - 12:20pm

The Good News And Bad News Of Cannabis-Infused Drinks

Former Denver Broncos running back Terrell Davis, who trained by running with tractor tires strapped to his waist and all that, has an easy marketing hook for his new cannabis 'athletic recovery' drink; if I am wrong, then why do I have two Super ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 15 2019 - 1:35pm

FDA Approves Oral Drug Mayzent To Treat Multiple Sclerosis, Novartis Expected To Get $1.7 Billion In Revenue By 2026

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Mayzent (siponimod) tablets by Novartis to treat adults with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS), to include clinically isolated syndrome, relapsing-remitting disease, and active secondary progre ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2019 - 9:37am

Supplements Can't Prevent Cancer But They Are Linked To It

Supplements are a huge industry that ballooned after President Bill Clinton turned the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 into law and took control of the controversial industry away from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in return for ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2019 - 2:44pm