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Here’s what you can realistically expect and what you need to know if you’re considering this treatment.
Sampling marine sponges for bioprospecting.
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A marine sponge from Mauritius has shown potential as the source of compounds that kill liver cancer cells.
Pharmacogenetic testing is a form of precision medicine, using your genes to personalize your care.
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Genetic testing can help take the guesswork out of finding the right treatment. For certain diseases. To an extent.
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Psychiatrists rely on guidelines to prescribe medication for bipolar disorders. But beyond side-effects and clinical trials, ‘real-world’ effectiveness should be considered thoughtfully.
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People have died after taking the banned frog secretion Kambô, and even when things go right there’s a lot of vomiting.
Package inserts contain information on the pharmacology of a drug.
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Don’t be intimidated by the package insert that comes with your medication. Learning how to read it can help you better understand how drugs work.
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It’s mushroom season in many parts of Australia. Here’s what you need to know before you go foraging.
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The risk of a severe allergic reaction when pholcodine is combined with common medicines used in anaesthesia has lead to their recall in Australia.
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If you think your medicine may be contributing to overheating, it’s very important you keep taking your medicine. Discuss your symptoms with your pharmacist or doctor.
Both the Khoi and the San believed in a mythical animal, resembling a cow, whose horns were thought to have medicinal attributes.
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The medicine container was found in a painted rock shelter. A radio carbon date of the horn container places it at around AD 1461-1630.
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Drinking alcohol with some medicine means they may not work so well. With others, you risk a life-threatening overdose.
Chronotherapeutic drug delivery aims to maximize treatment effectiveness and minimize side effects.
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There is a best time to take your medications, but your doctor may not know when that is. Researchers are still figuring it out, one drug at a time.
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The combination of codeine and ibuprofen is considered safe by many consumers, but inappropriate use can lead to health problems.
Constraining drugs to a single function in the body may be limiting their full potential.
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Despite technological advancements, many challenges remain in getting a drug from lab to pharmacy shelf. Reframing what is a “medicine” could expand treatment options for researchers and patients.
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What happens when drug testing experts come across a substance they have never seen before?
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Do you know zoopharmacognosy is? Some animals use trees to treat themselves.
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Sometimes, it’s best to take your medicine sitting up. Other times, lying down is safer. Here’s what we know so far.
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Each of these five drugs have brought some incredible benefits. But they’ve usually also come with a legacy of complications.
Having multiple prescriptions is difficult enough to keep track of, let alone ones with complicated names.
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Believe it or not, medication names are intended to be easy to remember and descriptive of the function they serve in the body.
The pink periwinkle is used as a tonic and emetic for the treatment of many health conditions.
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Thousands of plant species are used in African traditional medicine. Extracts from some of these plants are part of important pharmaceutical drugs.