Pharmacology

Vilca-Chicha: Peruvians Created A Literal Opiate Of The Masses To Exercise Control

As Peru's Wari kingdom sought to shore up their crumbling empire over 1,000 years ago they did it with their own form of bread and circuses- cocaine, ayahuasca, and a beer with psychedelics mixed in. Since the concoction was only made by elites withou ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 12 2022 - 6:24pm

Magnesium Helps The Immune System, Including Against Cancer

Magnesium is important in the immune system’s ability to tackle pathogens and even cancer cells but that doesn't mean you should run to a supplement huckster or naturopath. It is magnesium in blood that is needed for T cells to operate efficiently and ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2022 - 11:51am

Randomized Trial Reveals How Impaired People Who Drive After Smoking Marijuana Become

As of now, 18 states have legalized recreational marijuana use while 36 have 'medical' cannabis laws but there is still debate about how cannabis may affect the abilities, real and perceived, of drivers under the influence. A two-year randomized ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2022 - 4:13pm

The Alarming Number Of COVID-19 ICU Patients With Severe Bleeding After Full-Dose Blood Thinners

A new analysis of data shows the medical community may need to rethink the optimal strategy for treating blood clots and bleeding in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Patients with COVID-19 in the intensive care unit (ICU) prescribed full-dose blood thinners ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2022 - 2:59pm

Aspirin Doesn't Reduce Risk Of Major Cardiovascular Events

You probably know someone who takes an aspirin to reduce chances of a heart attack, just like you may know someone who says wine, containing alcohol, a true class 1 carcinogen, is 'good for you.' They were never settled science, they were instead ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 29 2022 - 1:23pm

The Dose Makes The Poison- And That Is Why Venom May Soon Be A New Medicine

In the 16th century, it was shown by Paracelsus that 'the dose makes the poison'- too much medicine or anything else could kill while too little did nothing. In the 21st century activists have sought to dispel that. They claim homeopathic effects ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 16 2022 - 4:19pm

Media Hype Creates Demand For Black Market Knockoffs Of Molnupiravir And Nirmatrelvir

Antivirals, such as Merck’s molnupiravir and Pfizer’s nirmatrelvir, are given to people infected with COVID-19 when prescribed by a doctor or as part of a clinical trial. Yet entire websites exist that sell it without prescription anyway. COVID-19 caused n ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 1 2022 - 9:07am

Moderna Spikevax COVID-19 Vaccine Linked To Higher Myocarditis Risk Than Pfizer BioNTech

Heart inflammation after a COVID-19 vaccine is very rare but epidemiology exists to vreate exploratory between products and outcomes and a recent analysis showed incidence of myocarditis, pericarditis or myopericarditis is two- to threefold higher after a ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2022 - 3:55pm

Waterhemp Weed Has Evolved Into A Major Pest- Blame Farmers?

Over 200 years ago, the age of modern agriculture began with fertilizer that wouldn't give you food poisoning if traces of it remained, like manure will. A new paper found what you would expect, and a key reason why legacy pesticides used in the organ ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 9 2022 - 10:43am

A Drug To Burn Brown Fat And Keep You Warm

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding basic research on non-genetic drugs that can temporarily enhance the human body’s ability to endure extreme cold exposure. The human body’s response to cold involves two biological proce ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2023 - 8:43am