drugs

How Drug Addiction and Salt Cravings are Intertwined

August 25, 2018 Victoria Simpson

Ever wonder how humans can become so hooked on drugs? Here’s some tasty insight. A team of U.S. and Australian scientists has found that addictive drugs like heroin and cocaine may be working on an ancient network in our brain.…

Health

The FDA is Pulling This Deadly Caffeine Product From the Market

April 25, 2018 Victoria Simpson

Concentrated caffeine products can be deadly but retailers continued to sell them. Drinking coffee, tea and caffeinated sports drinks is normal. Ingesting highly concentrated bulk caffeine isn’t, and it’s potentially fatal. For this reason, last week the FDA announced that…

Living

Norway Just Became the 1st Scandinavian Country to Decriminalize Drugs

December 15, 2017 Victoria Simpson

It’s no longer about crimes, but health and well being. This week, Norway took a bold step away from punishing those in the country who use street drugs. Sveinung Stensland, deputy chairman of the Storting Health Committee, made sure to…

Men's Health

This Common Prostate Drug Has Too Many Bad Side Effects, Says Study

August 22, 2017 Victoria Simpson

This drug could bring you more trouble than it solves when it comes to your urinary tract, including higher cholesterol, fatty liver disease and more. OK, so this feels like a bad-news-Monday. My cereal got too milky and now this.…

Health

Will the Next Big Brain Cancer Drug be Derived from Marijuana?

February 9, 2017 Alex Kozovski

GW Pharmaceuticals is close to venturing where no other pharmaceutical company has gone before. The U.K.-based company is poised to win the first-ever U.S. approval for a cannabis-derived therapy. Early trials of the therapy suggest that this treatment could also…

Health

An opioid ‘100 times stronger than fentanyl’ is the newest player in the drug epidemic

September 21, 2016 Alex Kozovski

You’re probably well aware of the dangers of illegal street drugs, such as the highly potent and addictive opioids – OxyContin, morphine, and fentanyl. And now there’s a new street drug that may be more deadly than them all, a…

Health

Harvard Scientists Release Time-lapse Video of Evolving Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria

September 14, 2016 Alex Kozovski

The growing concern of bacteria becoming resistant to even our most powerful antibiotics will soon be a reality. Harvard scientists have revealed a time-lapse video showing one of these growing, spreading ‘superbugs’ combatting antibiotic drugs. The film depicts the evolution…

Health

This Groundbreaking Drug is said to ‘Melt Away Cancer’

September 7, 2016 Alex Kozovski

A revolutionary new drug which allegedly ‘melts away cancer’ is on the fast-track to the U.S. Developed in Melbourne, Australia, Venetoclax was created to target chronic lymphocytic leukemia. The drug performed well in clinical trials, with positive results in 80%…

Health

Meet Pillo, Your Family’s Personal Pharmacy

July 7, 2016 Alex Kozovski

Would you trust this face to handle your family’s medications? Health startup Pillo Health hopes so, being the brains behind Pillo the personal robot. The artificially intelligent robot uses face and voice recognition to manage an entire family’s medication schedule.…

Health

A Pill That Treats All Forms of Hepatitis C is Here

June 29, 2016 Alex Kozovski

Federal health officials have approved the first pill that combats all major forms of hepatitis C. This is one in a series of relatively recent approvals that’s changing how the liver-destroying virus is remedied. The combination pill, Epclusa, was given…