Pharmacology

Fish Oil Supplements Don't Give You An Advantage

An investigation on the effect of fish oil supplements for muscle growth reveals the tablets do not give gym-goers an advantage in the weight room. Supplements are a protected class in the United States, easily claiming drug effects without being forced to ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 23 2016 - 3:06pm

Botswana Study Shows 96 Percent Rate Of Viral Suppression For Patients On HIV Drugs

Boston, MA- Botswana appears to have achieved very high rates of HIV diagnosis, treatment, and viral suppression--much better than most Western nations, including the United States--according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health a ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2016 - 8:09am

Cold-fX Works As Well As Homeopathy Or Any Other Placebo- And Valeant May Lose A Lot Money Denying That

Valeant Pharmaceuticals is in the British Columbia Supreme Court hoping to avoid lawsuit class-action status for ignoring their own scientists and claiming the popular "cold and flu remedy" Cold-fX actually works for cold and flu. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 4 2016 - 10:34am

Disparities In Pain Management To Racial Bias

A new survey has documented that black Americans are systematically under-treated for pain relative to white Americans, and the authors allege it is due to the over-prescription and over-use of pain medications among white patients and the under-prescript ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 5 2016 - 6:30am

Treat Sugar Like A Drug?

Type II diabetes is booming in the developed world and obviously obesity is the primary driver. A new paper contends sugar is a primary driver of that obesity, rather than consuming too many calories and not exercising, and so sugar addiction should be tr ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2016 - 10:15am

Why LSD Is So Groovy, Man

When people take the psychedelic drug LSD, they sometimes feel as though the boundary that separates them from the rest of the world has dissolved. Now, the first functional magnetic resonance images (fMRI) of people's brains while on LSD help to exp ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2016 - 11:30am

Debunked: Claims That Chantix And Zyban Smoking Cessation Drugs Boost Risk Of Psychiatric Side Effects

The smoking cessation aids varenicline (Chantix) and bupropion (Zyban) do not show a significant increase in neuropsychiatric adverse events compared to the nicotine patch and a placebo, according to data published in The Lancet. After reports claiming va ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 24 2016 - 9:39am

Accutane: Despite Birth Defects Risk, 50 Percent Of Canadian Women Don't Comply With Requirements

Isotretinoin (popularly marketed as Accutane) is used to treat severe acne and has been approved in Canada since 1983. The average age of isotretinoin users in Canada is estimated to be 24 years, and half of all prescriptions are written for females, a co ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 25 2016 - 3:51pm

Too Much Folate In Pregnant Women Linked To Autism

Supplements gone awry. Pregnant women are told they need folate to ensure proper neurodevelopment of their babies, but new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests there could be serious risks in having too much of it. ...

Article - News Staff - May 12 2016 - 5:49am

Alternative Medicine: What The Public Needs Is Responsible, Critical Assessments

As I am new here, it might be a good idea to briefly introduce myself. I am a physician, trained in Germany, whose very first post as a freshly-backed doctor happened to be in Germany’s only homeopathic hospital. At the time (mid 1970s), I had no idea tha ...

Article - Edzard Ernst - May 12 2016 - 7:10am