Pharmacology

Albicidin: It Kills Sugar Cane But May One Day Help Humans

Antibiotics are popular in America among everyone but pharmaceutical companies. Part of the reason is cultural; everyone wants antibiotics to be cheap, but want to be able to sue companies if anything new causes a side effect. Meanwhile, the government has ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2023 - 11:16am

CBD Has Broken Desire For Clinton-Era Free Passes Of Supplements By FDA

IN 1994, President Bill Clinton and Senator Tom Harkin set off a supplement boom- by decreeing that supplements could be exempt from real FDA oversight as long as they didn't claim to cure cancer or kill anyone (which companies in that market continue ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 26 2023 - 11:11am

Hong Kong Had 90% Fewer COVID-19 Deaths After Booster Shots

The booster dose of either the BNT162b2 mRNA (Fosun-BioNTech, equivalent to Pfizer-BioNTech outside China) or CoronaVac (Sinovac) COVID-19 vaccine was correlated to a 90 percent reduction in death in people with multiple co-morbidities compared to 2 doses, ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2023 - 10:56am

New Potential Treatment For Benzodiazepine-Resistant Epilepsy

A new small molecule may help people with benzodiazepine-resistant epilepsy. Epilepsy affects an estimated 3.4 million people in the U.S. and millions more worldwide and drugs work for most, but for the rest, Uncontrolled epilepsy and resulting frequent an ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 15 2023 - 12:45pm

Ivermectin Same As Placebo In Clinical Trial

If you buy TheraFlu or some other product and swear it helps, you may be right. The placebo effect is real and while OTC "remedies" and supplements can be sold with no proof needed, to be called actual medicine it can't simply work as poorly ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 22 2023 - 9:40am

Merck Appeals EMA Opinion On Cladribine Tablets In MS

Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announced today that it has notified the European Medicines Agency (EMA) of its intention to request a re-examination of the opinion issued by the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use ( ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 13 2023 - 8:34am

Hydrocortisone As Adjunctive Treatment For Septic Shock

Sepsis causes 11 million deaths annually so preventing that requires prompt recognition, source control, antibiotics, fluids and vasopressors. Sometimes adjunctive therapies such as orticosteroids help but the science is inconclusive. A recent study was de ...

Article - News Staff - May 22 2023 - 1:44pm

21%: Marijuana Addiction In Washington State, The First State To Make It Legal For Recreation

A recent analys if of primary care patients at Kaiser in Washington state, where recreational cannabis use is legal, found that addiction was common among patients who used it. Moderate and severe cases were more prevalent among patients who reported recre ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 5 2023 - 9:52am

Antidepressants May Also Improve Memory

A new study finds that while antidepressants reduce negative memories in individuals suffering from depression they may also be improving overall memory function. But don't go all Ozempic and rush to find a boutique physician willing to prescribe the ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2023 - 12:07pm

Dual Treatment Drugs Have Increased Life Of Men With Metastatic Prostate Cancer By 6 Months

Since the introduction of ‘dual treatment’ drugs, survival rates for men with metastatic prostate cancer have increased by an average of six months, according to National Prostate Cancer Register data of all Swedish men diagnosed between 2008 and 2020. Dua ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2023 - 11:49am