Oriental Medicine, African Medicine, Indigenous American Medicine and Traditional Western Medicine have always made use of mushrooms to cure a variety of ailments. But only recently have we found ...
In the heady world of the pharmaceutical industry, the most profitable industry in the world - where world sales doubled in the last five years - the pressure is always intense to develop new product.
One of the drug industry's holy grails is to discover an effective treatment for HIV/AIDS, and they've spent billions in the quest. But researchers have stumbled on something that seems to be effective, and it's already in plentiful supply - the...
An aspirin a day may not, after all, be the great cancer preventative suggested by several studies. ...
Q:I learned through your articles that I, along with possibly many thousand other health workers across the country, had been vaccinated in the late Eighties with the serum hepatitis B vaccine. ...
A strain of the polio vaccine could have been responsible for transferring the HIV virus to humans, according to a recent article in Rolling Stone, extracted in The Economist. ...
The range of anti arthritis drugs known as NSAIDs (non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs) can increase the risks of high blood pressure, especially if taken in large doses. ...
Hypertension (high blood pressure) is not a ‘disease’ per se; it is believed to be a significant risk factor in other diseases, including heart attack, heart failure, stroke and kidney disease.
America's drug 'watchdog', the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), had a nice Christmas present for the pharmaceuticals. On Christmas Eve it told all doctors in the USA to treat with extreme caution the entire family of NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti...
Patients taking drugs for HIV may be taking them for life, suggests the latest research published in Science magazine.
