Pharmacology

The Harlem Globetrotters had very little to worry about. After all, they had won 2,499 straight exhibition games against their foils, the Washington Generals. What could possibly go wrong?…

This one had all the suspense of a Harlem Globetrotters – Washington Generals game. (1) In what can be seen, at the very least, as an appalling lack of creativity, our old friends the EWG —…

Cigarette smoking is bad because it's nicotine that is addictive but it is the hundreds of carcinogens in smoke that kills people. They are a deadly combination. For that reason, advocates often…

For hundreds of millions of people around the world, chewing betel nut produces a cheap, quick high but also raises the risk of addiction and oral cancer. The betel nut, a seed of the areca palm, is…

Earlier this week, former National Basketball Association star Lamar Odom was found unconscious in a Nevada brothel, after taking what the owner said was a large quantity of “herbal Viagra.” He is…

Biologists have developed a nonsurgical method to deliver long-term contraception to both male and female animals with a single shot - but only in mice.- The road map is to as an alternative to…

OK, so I'm a 62-year old moron. Like *you're* so perfect?  This probably explains why I couldn't pass on this one. The word "green" has become so ubiquitous that it has become a parody of…

Hormonal treatments administered as part of the procedures for sex reassignment have well-known and well-documented effects on the secondary sexual characteristics of the adult body, shifting a…

The human organism is composed of numerous types of molecules, both simple and complex, and all fundamental processes in a living body occur in water solutions. Therefore, for a drug to work, it must…

It's a lovely narrative. Modern medicine fails, but ancient Chinese medicine comes to the rescue!The only problem is that it is completely false. But you wouldn't know that from reading the news.…