Pharmacology

Herbal Medicines Found To Have Dangerous Levels Of Toxic Mold

Up to 64% of people worldwide use medicinal plants to treat illnesses and relieve pain, and the herbal medicine market is worth $60 billion annually. Despite the increasing popularity of herbal medicine, the sale of medicinal plants is mostly unregulated, ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 23 2014 - 11:53am

DRIVE-AB To Tackle Policy Problem Of Near Empty Pipeline Of New Antibiotics

We never miss pharmaceutical companies until they are gone. Lawsuits, terrifically expensive drug development cycles and trials coupled with a short window for sales before a drug is declared out of patent and therefore generic has meant companies are aban ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2014 - 2:30pm

Organic Movement Rejects Science, Embraces ‘Natural’ Ebola Cure

As the death toll of Ebola continues to rise, especially in the hard-hit West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, the need for a viable cure is growing more and more urgent. Even more concerning is the possibility that once approved, v ...

Article - Jon Entine - Oct 28 2014 - 2:18pm

Mandatory Ebola Quarantine Is About Politics, Not Public Health

The risk to the Australian community from doctors and nurses returning from Ebola-affected countries is minimal. Credit: EPA/ARIE KIEVIT By Grant Hill-Cawthorne, University of Sydney and Adam Kamradt-Scott, University of Sydney Governments have a duty to ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 28 2014 - 11:26pm

Resveratrol Reverses Benefits Of Exercise- Study

Resveratrol has long been touted in news outlets and health blogs as a 2000s miracle product, with little evidence it helps people. It instead benefited from a kind of 'Glaxo would not paid $720 million if it didn't work' veneer. One of the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 31 2014 - 3:49pm

Chocolate Is Brain Food? Not So Fast

Chocolate as brain food? Credit: John Loo/Flickr By Meredith Knight, Genetic Literacy Project Scanning headlines last week, one may have been persuaded that chocolate consumption preserves and improves memory functions for aging brains. In reality, this n ...

Article - Genetic Literacy ... - Nov 2 2014 - 9:43am

Gulf War Syndrome- CoQ10 Antioxidant Helps In Small Study

Over 200,000 United States troops who fought in the 1990-1991 campaign to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi invaders have been diagnosed with a set of chronic health problems dubbed Gulf War Syndrome. The symptoms range from fatigue, muscle pain and weakness to ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 3 2014 - 3:13pm

Looking for the next Big IC50

Low standards breed poor results. ...

Blog Post - Ryan Walsh - Nov 13 2014 - 4:56pm

Testing Could Reduce Unnecessary Antibiotics Prescriptions

Fast testing for bacterial infections may help to reduce excessive antibiotic use, finds a systematic review. When doctors tested for the presence of bacterial infections, they prescribed fewer antibiotics. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 6 2014 - 9:00am

Success For Olaparib In BRCA-Related Cancers

Olaparib, an experimental twice-daily oral cancer drug, produces an overall tumor response rate of 26 percent in several advanced cancers associated with BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations, according to results of a Phase II study. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2014 - 9:00am