Professor Mehdi Beniddir, both a researcher in chemistry and a pharmacist, explains how pharmacognosy makes it possible to develop new medicinal drugs from substances found in nature.
When asked what advice an eminent surgeon might give other doctors, I brace myself for another mountain I can’t climb“What’s a Festschrift?” my youngest asks.“In German it means ‘celebration writing’,” I say, “I’m going to an academic conference to honour a doctor.” Continue reading
WASHINGTON — Less than two weeks ago, Capt. Michael Johnson, an Army nurse, was on his way to work at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas when an auto accident happened in front of him on the highway. A jeep traveling at high speed slid and crashed into the back of a bus. Johnson’s instincts took over as he pulled over, grabbed his medical bag, and went to help. The jeep’s air bags were deployed, and the driver was unresponsive. Johnson rendered aid until emergency medical...
I refer to the period of time following the birth of my first kid as my trial by fire.New motherhood thrust me into an awkward phase rivaled only by puberty. Three months postpartum, my skin suddenly erupted in deep, sore, bleeding, disfiguring cystic acne that covered my entire face. My hair, once red, curly, and plentiful, turned dark and fell out in handfuls, leaving bald patches not only in the normal spots at the temple but throughout my whole scalp. My whole body seemed to swell, even six...
A new technique in building DNA structures at a microscopic level has the potential to advance drug delivery and disease diagnosis, a study suggests.
A recent warning from veterinary experts has shed light on a concerning additive lurking in many brands of canned cat food: carrageenan.
Survey has revealed challenges faced by pharmacists and risk of harm to patients as key drugs are unavailable‘We’re firefighting in the background’: the pharmacists coping with record drug shortagesDrug shortages in England are now at such critical levels that patients are at risk of immediate harm and even death, pharmacists have warned.The situation is so serious that pharmacists increasingly have to issue “owings” to patients – telling someone that only part of their prescription can be...
In a major shift, the Justice Department is formally moving to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug. The proposed rule change recognizes the medical uses of cannabis and acknowledges it has less potential for abuse. Marijuana has been in the same classification as heroin and LSD. It now moves to a Schedule 3 drug, along with []
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Candidates can download the interview schedule from the official website hpsc.gov.in.
After getting into a fight with another orangutan in the rainforest, Rakus was documented treating his own injuries.
Since the pandemic, small health care systems have faced a crisis with staffing shortages and closures.