Pharmacology

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Eli Lilly and Company's Reyvow (lasmiditan) tablets for acute treatment of migraine headaches in adults. Though used colloquially by everyone who…

Though prebiotics are a fad outside the chemotherapy sector, there is little evidence they do anything positive or negative in humans. Except in horses, where they seem to do something negative…

Malaria is an infectious disease causing more than 400,000 deaths per year predominantly among children and pregnant women. While the disease originates in sub-Saharan Africa and various tropical…

If human beings go to Mars, they need food - and that means macaroni and cheese.  Currently, plastic packaging can keep food safe at room temperature for up to twelve months but a new paper in…

A recent paper has linked two types of heart problems and one of the most commonly prescribed classes of antibiotics. Data from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's adverse reporting system plus a…

Though "medical" marijuana has long been available to much of the public, to the medical community it's been a joke. For example, over 60 percent of pain patients are older women, but the majority of…

Though Johnson  &  Johnson and Purdue Pharma are on the hook for big judgments due to their marketing practices related to opioids, claims that they "created" an opioid epidemic are the…

If marijuana has analgesic properties, people will try it to potentially manage their pain, but it is unclear if it does or not. Fortunately, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration signaled it…

Increased consumption of omega 3 fats is widely promoted because of a recent belief that it will protect against, or even reverse, conditions such as type 2 diabetes.  Fads always start with a…

A few years ago, a study by the British Cheese Board queried 200 volunteers on whether or not they had nightmares after eating cheese prior to bedtime. Nary a one did.  Why would they ask such a…