The Food and Drug Administration informed healthcare professionals that a Boxed Warning was added to prescribing information for Regranex that describes an increased risk of death from cancer in patients treated with three or more tubes of Regranex compared with those patients who did not use the product. FDA recommends that Regranex be used only [...]
Researchers have developed a virus which is used to kill cancer cells in patients with advanced end stage cancers. The treatments which are experimental offer an alternative for patients who have exhausted other options and can’t take any more chemotherapy or radiation. The virus approach to killing cancer cells has the advantage of leaving normal [...]
Here is an interesting story showing that the development of autism has a strong genetic component. A number of parents who used the same sperm donor had children who developed autism. The sperm donor was an individual with high intelligence and other desirable characteristics according to the sperm bank information.
The first child described is [...]
A report in the May 28 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, rperts that gabapentin (aka Neurontin), a drug often prescribed for chronic pain and seizures, helps to decrease alcohol intake in alcohol addicted rats by improving chemical communication between brain cells, that is affected by chronic alcohol use.
The central amygdala, a component [...]
Chocolate has gotten a great deal of press lately and most of the news has been positive. The latest news is again good and it suggests that drinking hot cocoa is good for you if you have type 2 diabetes. The beneficial effects are caused by an improvement in blood flow following consumption of cocoa [...]
Herbal Medicine that is used in non-western medicine may have some promise in compounds to treat many diseases. A new study by Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Kimmel Cancer center has identified a compound that appears to have value as an anticancer drug against pancreatic cancer cells. The compound thymoquinone is a derivative of Nigella Sativa [...]
Huge bugs that don’t bite,look interesting and make strange sounds–that’s what has made Madagascar hissing cockroaches popular pets and teaching tools. But the giant cockroaches also have an undesireable trait: Their hard shells and their waste products contain numerous mold species that can trigger allergies in children and adults who handle the bugs, according [...]
Bisphenol A, or BPA a chemical found in numerous plastics that contain our foods and make up some water bottles and baby bottles has been linked to the development of obesity.
Bisphenol A, or BPA exposure during the development of a fetus in the womb and exposure while in infancy is associated with obesity later in [...]
A study in the Archives of Internal Medicine recently has shown that there is a link between exposure to small air pollution particles and development of blood clots in the deep veins. They showed that exposure to increased concentrations of particulate air pollution in the year before diagnosis was associated with increased Deep Vein [...]
