Pharmacology

Do You Prefer Soda, Cola, Or Beer? It May Not Be That You Just Prefer The Taste

Using dietary logs of recalls of ~336,000 individuals in the UK Biobank along with a genome-wide association study of bitter beverage consumption and of sweet beverage consumption., scholars have determined that your preference for dark roast coffee and a ...

Article - News Staff - May 6 2019 - 9:46am

FDA Warns Public Of Homeopathic 'Remedies' That May Actually Do Something- Like Kill Your Kids With Natural Rat Poison

Homeopathy, now two centuries old, proceeds from a fascinatingly bizarre premise; that there is a u-shaped curve for dose. Reasonable people know the dose makes the poison; a medicine that can help you at normal levels can be harmful at high levels.  Homep ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 14 2019 - 12:53pm

Reducing Use Is Not The Answer: Here Are 5 Ways To Tackle Antibiotic Resistance

An entire generation of parents was brought up believing that if hospitals used antimicrobial soap, then homes deserved it too. An entire generation of doctors were brought up in a defensive medicine culture and taught that if a patient really wanted somet ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2019 - 9:34am

Women Of Childbearing Age, Stop Taking Supplements Containing Vinpocetine

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expressing concern supplements containing vinpocetine, a supplement (e.g. Vinca minor extract, lesser periwinkle extract, common periwinkle extract) which is a derivative of the vinca alkaloid vincamine, an extract ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2019 - 1:40pm

Health Advisory: Marijuana And Infertility

People who smoke marijuana and are considering having children in the future need to be aware about four serious issues that may impact both men and women according to an article (" Five things to know about... marijuana and fertility "- the tit ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 10 2019 - 9:52am

The Chinese Were Smoking Genetically Engineered Cannabis 2,500 Years Ago

Cannabis, known as marijuana in the U.S., Cannabis has been cultivated for millennia in East Asia and like many drugs exported from there to become one of the most widely used psychoactive drugs in the world today. But now archaeologists have tracked down ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 12 2019 - 3:14pm

Gingivitis and its Implication in Alzheimer's Disease

     Porphyromonas gingivalis is the pathogen responsible for chronic periodontitis (CP) or gingivitis. A prospective observational study of patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and active CP showed a notable decline in cognition (Alzheimer’s Disease As ...

Blog Post - Scott Beers - Jun 13 2019 - 6:01pm

Scorpion Venom Provides Two Benzoquinones With Antimicrobial Activity

 A paper published in ...

Blog Post - Scott Beers - Jul 2 2019 - 3:17pm

Not Just The West Coast Any More: Survey Now Says 45% Worry About The Safety Of Vaccines

No one admits to being swayed by celebrities, Facebook groups, or media coverage, but their impact is clear. Whereas 10 years ago vaccine denial was only prominent among wealthy elites on the west coast, a new The Harris Poll paid for by the American Osteo ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2019 - 1:14pm

Buprenorphine Is A Schedule III Drug For Opioid Addiction- Taking It Off Prescription Will Save Lives

There is no question the government and its hand-picked advisors have hyped claims of opioid addiction beyond all sense. Doctors, pharmaceutical companies, and legitimate pain patients have all been steamrolled in an effort to stop what is really a recrea ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2019 - 5:00am