Health and Medicine

Glyceryl Phosphoryl choline (GPC) which is sold as a pharmaceutical drug

Fidget spinners can be used to separate blood plasma for diagnostic tests

New assays and biomarkers are bringing the decades-long quest to develop a blood test for Alzheimer’s disease closer to the finish line

Analyzing the proteins in blister fluids could help doctors determine the best course of treatment for burn patients

Bones from dry-cured ham could contain cardioprotective peptides

A device tested in pigs can absorb chemotherapy drugs (delivered by syringe) from the bloodstream after they have done their job in a tumor

Discovery could allow enhanced activity of the immune system to attack cancer cells, in particular in cases of lung cancer and melanoma.

As more doctors retire, less students study medicine due to its difficult, long, expensive training, nurse practitioners’ and physician assistants’ roles expand, more doctors are brought from third world countries. Could pharmacists’ fill the void?

Vitamin C daily

Now going into clinical trials for specific types of cancer, Alpha Tau’s technology shows potential for treating any solid tumor

Drs. Linus Pauling and Dr. Sydney Bush, had more effect on my understanding of cardiovascular disease than any other person

Israeli scientists show how this basic component of body cells can become ‘bad’ and cause hardening of the arteries

A wound covered by an electric bandage on a rat's skin (top left) healed faster than a wound under a control bandage (right).

Namely, it’s prudent to take the lowest effective dose for the shortest period of time.

Israel’s Nitinotes is developing a minimally invasive alternative to bariatric surgery

Israeli study shows how changes in the cellular environment damage the molecular structure of nerve cells’ insulating coating, possibly leading to MS.

Researchers explore how to end virus 'hijacking' of the immune system.

Best present you can give a lonely friend. Pick up the telephone and make the call.

Current research shows that Low Intensity Laser Therapy is a new way to treat concussion but has received little medical attention. It also has the appeal of being non-toxic, non-invasive and is completely safe

C&EN's Year in Pharma 2018

Portable, wearable device will offer over-the-counter alternative to pills or surgery, to be used as needed

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

Paid off journal editors, Scientific Fraud, Inappropriate image duplication, Hoaxes,

Countries debate plan to equate digitized DNA data to biological material

Making biologics on demand

Vines, similar to those pictured, contain a compound that could make pancreatic cancer cells susceptible to starvation

Addicts who exercise appear to be less vulnerable to relapsing upon returning to the environment where drugs were previously taken

Hebrew University researchers share results of a new glioblastoma treatment with the potential to improve and extend patients’ lives