Pharmacology

Calcium Supplements Linked To 30% Increased Risk Of Heart Attack

Calcium supplements are commonly taken by older people for osteoporosis but have now been associated with an increased risk of a heart attack, according to a study published in BMJ-British Medical Journal.    The results seem to indicate that a reassessmen ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 1 2010 - 12:47am

Would You Like Statins With That Big Mac?

One solution to the heart risk caused by obesity, although an obtuse one, is to add things to the junk food industry instead of taking away some junk food. Researchers at Imperial College London writing in the American Journal of Cardiology suggest fast fo ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 12 2010 - 10:41am

Pharmaceutical Companies: Car Salesmen Without The Lemon Laws?

Donald Light, professor of comparative health policy at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, says the pharmaceutical industry is a market for 'lemons'-  a market in which the seller knows much more than the buyer about the prod ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2010 - 10:45am

Hallucinogens In Your Medicine Cabinet

One of the crazy repercussions of the idiotic “war on drugs”, apart from destruction of innocent lives and whole countries like Mexico and the US, is that you cannot openly buy many quite harmless substances while relatively dangerous ones are freely avail ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 14 2011 - 2:54am

Antibiotics 1700 Years Ago- In Beer!

Want to make people healthier?  Put more goof stuff in beer.  And don't count out the smarts of ancient people in fun ways to stay healthy. While antibiotics officially date to the discovery of penicillin in 1928, a chemical analysis of the bones of a ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2015 - 5:43pm

Fish Oil's Anti-Inflammatory Secret Revealed

Fish oil has been used as an anti-inflammatory (and a lot of other things) but scientists haven't been sure how the omega-3 fatty acids in fish oil work in that capacity but a new report in Cell shows how omega-3 fatty acids both shut down inflammatio ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 2 2010 - 12:17pm

Psychotropic Medications Linked To Birth Defects

Psychotropic medications-  psychostimulants like Ritalin,  antidepressants like Prozac and antipsychotics like Haldol- during pregnancy increase the probability of birth defects, according to a  University of Copenhagen study.   In Denmark, psychotropic me ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 6 2010 - 12:46pm

Glucosamine And Chondroitin Don't Work For Joint Pain- Study

Two popular supplements taken by millions of people around the world to combat joint pain, glucosamine and chondroitin, do not work, according to research published today- but they don't hurt you either.  Basically, they are expensive placebos. Glucos ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2010 - 4:11pm

Medicinal plants of the Himalayan region

Maharanga emodi (Wall.)A.D.C. syn Onsoma emodi Wall (O. emodi Wall.=Maharanga emodi (Wall.) DC.,) (Boraginaceae) Flower and roots are used as medicine. The plants are distributed in Alpine Himalayas of Nepal from 3000 to 3900 m. also found from Garhwal to ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 18 2010 - 12:59pm

Ethnobotany And India's Natural Medicine Cuture

India, due to its unique variety of geographical and climatic factors, has a rich and varied flora of medicinal plants. No wonder that out of a total number of over 15,000 plant species in India, about 2,000 are known to have medicinal properties and some ...

Article - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 18 2010 - 12:58pm