NEWS
Organic Medicinal Plant
Wed, 03 Feb 2010
There are a few different types of hemorrhoids, each with their own specific characteristics. External hemorrhoids are visible and can be felt outside the anal canal. They can be very uncomfortable and make you feel like there is something there that doesn’t belong. They can itch, be painful, and swell up to make sitting difficult. They can also make it painful to have a bowel movement and to wipe afterwards...
Various plant hormones
Tue, 02 Feb 2010
Plants are not as defenceless as they may seem. Various plant hormones work together to specifically fend off attacks. Dutch-sponsored researcher Antonio Leon-Reyes has now shown how these hormones cooperate. By 'consulting' with each other plant hormones determine which defence mechanism they shall set in motion...
Hospital Prescription Records
Tue, 02 Feb 2010
A recent study led by Dr. Khaled El Emam, the Canada Research Chair in Electronic Health Information at the CHEO Research Institute, found that the information in hospital prescription records can quite easily re-identify patients...
"Devil's claw"
Tue, 02 Feb 2010
Deep in Africa's Kalahari Desert grows the "Devil's claw," a plant that may hold the key to effective treatments for arthritis, tendonitis and other illnesses that affect millions each year. Unfortunately, years of drought have pushed the Devil's claw toward extinction, so scientists are scrambling to devise new ways to produce the valuable medicinal chemicals of the Devil's claw and other rare plants..
New anti-flu drugs could become a reality
Tue, 02 Feb 2010
Antivirals such as Tamiflu act on surface proteins, which are highly variable among different viruses. But the researchers found that, if they went deeper than the surface proteins, they could identify proteins which remain constant in evolution and therefore can be targeted more effectively with antivirals...
Recreational Drugs
Tue, 02 Feb 2010
2 University of Hertfordshire academics are releasing new evidence about the dangers of ‘Spice’ drugs today at the first International Psychonaut Web Mapping Conference in Ancona, Italy. Professor Fabrizio Schifano and Dr Ornella Corazza from the University’s School of Pharmacy will describe the pharmacological aspects of novel drugs of abuse and provide an overview of ‘Spice’ drugs at the conference which takes place as a result of a two-year European Commission-funded study to implement a regular monitoring of the World Wide Web in respect to novel recreational drugs...
Get Medicines Online
Mon, 01 Feb 2010
In recent years, the world has become an online store. Especially, the medication field is also changed its way of transactions after the internet revolution. Nowadays, there are so many online pharmacies are helping their valuable customers to get medicines through online in a short span of time..
Health care costs associated with diabetes
Mon, 01 Feb 2010
Diabetes costs the U.S. economy about $174 billion in 2007 in medical expenses and lost productivity, but that figure does not take into account the national economic costs associated with undiagnosed diabetes, which could raise the estimate to more than $192 billion...
Antipsychotic Drugs
Mon, 01 Feb 2010
A new study concludes that many doctors appear to have largely ignored a FDA warning to screen users of new antipsychotic drugs for high blood sugar and cholesterol, which poses risks to their health and raises questions about the efficacy of warning protocols in general...
Health News
Mon, 01 Feb 2010
Effective communication of health news is needed to raise awareness and encourage behavior changes in populations who experience health disparities, or inequalities in health status, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...