Pharmacology

The Lizard Of Oz Takes His Own Medicine

We all have bad days. Sometimes "bad" is a woefully insufficient adjective. Ask Dr. Mehmet Oz (henceforth known as The Lizard of Oz). He had a really bad day this week, courtesy of Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO).  She is not someone you want as ...

Article - Josh Bloom - Oct 15 2014 - 8:15pm

Cancer Drug Rapamycin May Lead To Gene Therapy For Blood Disorders

Scientists working to make gene therapy a reality say they have figured out how to bypass a blood stem cell's natural defenses and efficiently insert disease-fighting genes into the cell's genome. The drug rapamycin, which is commonly used to sl ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2014 - 2:00pm

The Next Big Cancer Drug Could Already Be In Your Medicine Cabinet

Antihistamines, which help reduce watery eyes and runny noses during allergy season, might also help ward off tumors too. A new report suggests that antihistamines may have significant anti-cancer properties as they interfere with the function of a type o ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2014 - 11:02am

St. John's Wort Herbal Supplement Causes Dangerous Interactions With Real Medicine

It's unclear why there is a natural medicine craze in the modern era. Real medicine was invented because natural medicine didn't help people. If natural medicine survived double-blind clinical trials, it became regular medicine. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2014 - 11:49am

So Much Viagra Is Taken Illegally, Maybe Governments Should Buy Out The Patent Before 2017

The argument for making marijuana legal despite its health risks is that so many people use it anyway that it creates a society of casual criminals at best- maybe they are getting a bogus prescription for 'pain' or glaucoma or inventing some way ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 3 2014 - 1:30am

Ecstasy Use Linked To Burst Spinal Artery Aneurysm

Taking the street drug Ecstasy could lead to a potentially fatal weakening and rupture of the spinal cord artery, according to a new paper. Posterior spinal artery aneurysms- a blood-filled swelling of the spinal cord artery, caused by a weakening and dis ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2014 - 2:01am

Antidepressant Drugs Don't Improve Well-Being In Children And Adolescents

Recent meta-analyses of the efficacy of second-generation antidepressants for youth have concluded that they possess anadvantage over placebo in terms of clinician-rated depressive symptoms, but no meta-analysis has included measures of quality of life, gl ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2014 - 12:30pm

Dream State And Lower Sense Of Self- Psychedelic Drugs Get A Science Explanation

Hippies on LSD in the 1960s described it as a 'dream state' and a new study finds that is a pretty accurate description. Researchers recently examined the brain effects of the psychedelic chemical in magic mushrooms, called psilocybin, using data ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2014 - 11:00am

Arsenic Linked To Cancer In Mice

Mice exposed to arsenic in drinking water developed lung cancer in a new study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health have found.  In the study, researchers gave mice orders of magnitude acceptable limits of arsenic in water- 5X the EPA maxim ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2014 - 11:31am

Combination Drug Controls Tumor Growth And Metastasis

Researchers have created a combination drug that controls both tumor growth and metastasis. By combining a COX-2 inhibitor, similar to Celebrex, and an epoxide hydrolase (sEH) inhibitor, the drug controls angiogenesis (blood vessel formation), limiting a ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2014 - 5:21pm