Alternative Medicine - news, reports, trials and publications

Traditional Chinese Medicine (simplified Chinese: 中医; traditional Chinese: 中醫; pinyin: zhōng yī: "Chinese Medicine") refers to a broad range of medicine practices sharing common...

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Alternative medicine are whole medical systems that did not fit with conventional medicine as they have completely different philosophies and ideas on the causes of disease, methods of diagnosis and...

iBioLaunch

The iBioLaunch™ platform is a  proprietary gene expression technology that causes non-transgenic plants to rapidly produce high levels of target proteins.  The plants are easily and...

Spectinomycin

Spectinomycin is an aminocyclitol antibiotic, closely related to the aminoglycosides, produced by the bacterium Streptomyces spectabilis. It is used against gonorrhea infections by interrupting prot...

Enzymes - news, views, reports

Enzymes are proteins that catalyze (i.e., increase the rates of) chemical reactions. In enzymatic reactions, the molecules at the beginning of the process, called substrates, are converted into diff...

IPC Relieves Dyspnea More Than Talc Pleurodesis

Researchers found that indwelling pleural catheters (IPCs) relieve dyspnea more effectively at 6 months, but talc pleurodesis causes fewer adverse events. Medscape Medical News

SpiritDetox.com Publishes Article Warning of Dangers of Talc

Bakersfield, California (PRWEB) April 23, 2013 As a continuing effort to inform the community of important findings relating to health, SpiritDetox.com has published an article about the hidden d...

What you need to know about the new EU legislation on needle stick injuries

Although the incidence of needle stick injuries in the pharmacy profession is low, Mark Santillo explains why new EU legislation relating to needle stick injuries still matter

10-20-30 Training Concept Improves Health With Less Exercise

Runners can improve their performance and health in only 20-30 minutes by following the new 10-20-30 training concept, say researchers. The 10-20-30 training concept, developed by researchers from the...

Technique shows how drops, bubbles stick to surfaces

Understanding exactly how droplets and bubbles stick to surfaces is a “100-year-old problem” that has eluded experimental answers, says Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Kripa Varan...

French women trailing behind their European neighbors when it comes to sport and exercise

(World Heart Federation) French women are less likely to spend any time on physical activities including sport, exercise or even household chores, compared to women in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and the...

Effectiveness of early sport specialization limited in most sports, sport diversification may be better approach at young ages

Ever-increasing requirements for success in competitive sports has created added pressure for young athletes to train with greater intensity at earlier ages. The goal to become the next Olympian or mo...

Survey: 44% of German women do not play sport or spend any time on intensive workouts

A new survey reveals that 44 per cent of German women did not play competitive sport or spend any time on intensive workouts such as running or cycling, in a given week. German women remain reluctant...

Effective and rapid technique to ensure uniform talc pleurodesis.

The use of talc for inducing chemical sclerosis in the pleural cavity dates back to 1935. Insufflation (also known as talc poudrage) and instillation have been the techniques used for administering ta...

Suitable device for thoracoscopic talc poudrage in malignant pleural effusion.

Chemical pleurodesis is widely used in symptomatic patients with malignant pleural effusion to relieve symptoms, prevent fluid recurrence, and improve quality of life. Talc has been repeatedly found t...

Molecular explanation for why talc surfaces can be both hydrophilic and hydrophobic.

While individual water molecules adsorb strongly on a talc surface (hydrophilic behavior), a droplet of water beads up on the same surface (hydrophobic behavior). To rationalize this dichotomy, we inv...

Changes in the pleural cavity by pleurodesis using talc or OK-432: An experimental study.

To define the changes in the pleural cavity after pleurodesis induced by talc or OK-432.

Isolation and characterization of an antibacterial biflavonoid from an African chewing stick Garcinia kola Heckel (Clusiaceae).

The use of African chewing sticks in maintaining oral health is widely practiced in African countries. It has been reported that chewing stick users have a lower rate of dental caries and a better gen...