Pharmacology

Does Corn Sugar Make You Fatter Than Sucrose?

Does high-fructose corn syrup, a common ingredient in soft drinks and snacks and too many products to count, make you fatter than sugar?   The Sugar Association, Inc., which represents sugar growers, certainly wants you to think so. But, like cultural pund ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 7 2011 - 6:53pm

STELARA(R) Shows Significant Improvement In Quality Of Life In Japanese Psoriasis Patients

SEOUL, South Korea, May 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/--  New data presented at the World Congress of Dermatology (WCD) have shown treatment with STELARA(R) significantly improved the health-related quality of life in Japanese psoriasis patients.[1]  Psoriasis, a ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - May 27 2011 - 1:48pm

ImmunoCAP(R) Used In Largest Cross-sectional Allergy Study Ever

UPPSALA, Sweden, May 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/-- Phadia, the worldwide leader of in vitro allergy diagnostics, is pleased to contribute to the largest cross-sectional allergy study ever conducted through the use of its ImmunoCAP(R) Specific IgE blood test, th ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - May 27 2011 - 1:49pm

An Invisibility Cloak For Living Cells

Using living cells as more efficient tools for delivering medicines  to diseased parts of the body has  gotten a little closer.    In a new report, Dayang Wang and colleagues explain that the human body's efficiency in getting rid of foreign substance ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 15 2011 - 10:39am

Want Rotting Skin? Enjoy Some Cocaine

Maybe your need to feel like a Hollywood celebrity outweighs the long-published perils of cocaine use and you just need a little something to push you back over the edge to sanity- if so, crusty, purplish areas of dead skin that are extremely painful and c ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2011 - 3:29pm

Is There A Coffee Drinking Pathology?

Addiction is a beast, I am told.  Perhaps I am addicted to coffee- I have given it up on occasion for a few months, like I have meat, pastas and breads, but never quit like people quit smoking or heroin.  If it's my only vice, and it would seem to be ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 23 2011 - 4:29pm

That Diet Soda May Be Fooling You

A pair of studies presented Saturday and today at the American Diabetes Association's Scientific Sessions in San Diego suggest diet sodas may be a dietary head fake for the body.  Epidemiologists from the School of Medicine at The University of Texas ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2011 - 4:18pm

Glandular Supplements A 'Waste Of Money' In Bodybuilding

Glandular nutritional supplements, sold on the premise that they can help bodybuilders, have been slammed as "bogus" by the founder of a British nutritional company.  The supplements in question include those containing the trace mineral Boron a ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jun 29 2011 - 11:25am

I Am Going Nuts, Really

Over all that quantum physics lately, I have totally neglected a much more important issue: our happiness. And I mean true happiness of course, not the fake stuff you get from a loving family and friends as the slave drivers try to make you believe is wha ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 17 2011 - 10:04am

Nutty Pictures

“ I am going Nuts ” introduced a misunderstood little gem, the Nutmeg, and expounded a little on its preparation. Pure myristicine without safrole, elemicin, and likely unknown ones inside nutmeg, does not result in the same effects as freshly ground nutm ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 17 2011 - 10:06am