Pharmacology

Green Tea Is Probably An Endocrine Disruptor

Add green tea to the growing list of substances that activists will soon be calling an endocrine disruptor; a study has found that, rather than bring health benefits, as Big Tea proclaims, excessive consumption adversely affects development and reproducti ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 8 2015 - 7:37am

Tylenol Provides No Benefits Against The Flu

Some doctors may recommend that patients with the flu take acetaminophen, or paracetemol, to relieve their symptoms; however, a new randomized clinical trial found no benefits to the over-the-counter medication in terms of fighting the influenza virus or ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 7 2015 - 5:44pm

Chipotle's GI Jihad

Where is Mel Brooks when you need him? Ever since Chipotle's self-righteous claim (which isn't even true) that the company was removing GM ingredients from its food because "it doesn't align with [the company's] position," jus ...

Article - Josh Bloom - Dec 12 2018 - 5:49pm

Screening Microorganinism To Find New Antibiotics

Biologists have found used to characterize new antibiotics can screen natural products quickly for compounds capable of controlling antibiotic resistant bacteria. Antibiotic resistance is increasing at an alarming rate. The Review on Antimicrobial Resista ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2015 - 7:39am

Cough Medicines That Contain Codeine- Warning From Doctors Or Health Scare?

An article describes the first published case of confusional state in a healthy 14-year-old girl attributed to excessive consumption of over-the-counter cough medicine that contained codeine. Codeine is a widely prescribed painkiller, but it can also be p ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 23 2015 - 10:51am

Vitamin D Does Not Change Risk Or Severity Of Sleep Apnea

Supplement fads come and go and the most recent one to take the U.S. by storm has been to list vitamin D as both cause and cure of just about everything- and make some money selling vitamin supplements. It takes a while for science to catch up to spurious ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 26 2015 - 11:06am

The Hidden Cost Of Legal Marijuana: More Alcohol Abuse Too

Recreational marijuana use is now legal in four states and "medical" marijuana in 23 states. Research on legalization policies has focused largely on direct impact- how they impact marijuana access and use. What is little discussed is that marij ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2015 - 8:00am

Palbociclib Breast Cancer Drug May Be Effective Against Other Types Of Cancer

Palbociclib, a new oral drug with efficacy in combating breast cancer both alone and in combination with endocrine therapy, also has potential to combat other types of cancer, according to a literature review and additional research in JAMA Oncology. Palb ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2015 - 8:00am

Perhaps Rethinking Chronic Pain Can Curb The Opioid Abuse Epidemic

Over the last few decades, medicine has witnessed a sea change in attitudes toward chronic pain, and particularly toward opioids. While these changes were intended to bring relief to many, they have also fed an epidemic of prescription opioid and heroin a ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 12 2016 - 12:04am

Ayahuasca: A Psychoactive For The Shamanist In You

Ayahuasca, known by various names by different indigenous groups in South America, is a generic term commonly associated with preparations of the mildly psychoactive vine Banisteriopsis caapi. Ayahuasca literally translates from the Quechua language of th ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 23 2016 - 9:00am