Archive for the 'Medicines' Category

 Effective Gout Cure – Cure it Before It is Too Late

Gout is quite common among Americans, actually there are far more than 5 million people in the United States alone still fighting with it. Although there are many medicine/pills to remove gout, these medicines are simply helpful in eliminating gout for simply a period of time.



 You Might Need This Some Day

Here’s a green living idea – a survival tool that you might need in the future after a few decades of climate change and peak oil. You might want to bookmark this page. IDE; which describes itself as “creating income opportunities for the rural poor”, has invented a very simple-tech treadle device for [ You Might Need This Some Day from Green Living Ideas ]



 Choosing Natural Herbal Remedies Over Drug Treatments

Choosing natural herbal remedies is something that you can consider especially when you find that conventional medicine is not helping you with your symptoms. A recent study showed that more and more people are turning to alternative remedies to help them with their illnesses



 The Truths Based on Alternative and Complementary Medicine

Alternative or complementary medicine is an approach for treating disease, illness and medicine other than the common methods used by modern medicine as dispensed by most doctors today, and marketed worldwide through the pharmaceutical industry.



 Lower Percentage of Forest Loss in Brazil & Indonesia than in US & Canada

There is a large global effort to stop the deforestation of Brazilian and Indonesian forests. This is an important thing to do in order to stop or slow global warming, to preserve biodiversity and numerous unique species of plants and animals, and for human health



 Birch Herb Description-drug Interactions, Dosage and Some of Its …

However, until more clinical research becomes available, these agents have no role in modern medicine. The risk of hypersensitivity reactions makes OTC use a cause for concern.



 The lull before the Dendreon storm?

Today’s post is going to be relatively short as I’m knee deep (literally) reviewing poster handouts from the recent AACR meeting , but while reading translational medicine data I came across a poster on sipuleucel-T basically explaining that it engages the immune system and activates or stimulates priming of T-cells in asymptomatic disease.   Like many out there I’m quietly wondering what will happen tomorrow with Dendreon’s PDUFA date due on Saturday May 1st



 The biology of pancreatic cancer

The cause of pancreatic cancer is still unknown, although there are risk factors involved, such as increased exposure to tobacco smoke and a family history of the disease.  It is usually detected late when advanced stage disease has set in because most patients are asymptomatic for a long period and then it is too late



 Clorox Accuses Method of Violating Federal Laws Over Daisy Label

It’s an old story: a major corporation targets its small competition over alleged trademark infringement. McDonald’s attacked McDharma’s, a vegetarian fast food restaurant in Santa Cruz, California over “Mc”



 New Product Marketing

One of the things about oncology or any other therapeutic are new product development and marketing is that you get to spend a LOT of time at scientific congresses like AACR in DC the other week, which means early to rise and late to sleep: Source: Personal iPhone – view of over the Potamac and Georgetown, DC from Arlington, VA.  Anyone who thinks these meetings are junkets or jollies should join me on my schedule next trip;sometimes there isn’t time to eat or by the time you do have a free slot it’s too late.  Often, it means 18 hour days and a day back in the office is a relative rest.  There’s always thought leaders to talk to, sessions to attend, media briefings, poster sessions (you can walk miles at those alone), plenaries etc, not to mention clients as well