Herbal Medicines Can Be Potentially Lethal

Herbal medicines if taken in large quantities, injected, or combined with prescription drugs, can prove potentially lethal, experts have warned. Professor Roger Byard, University of Adelaide, highlighted the highly toxic nature of many herbal substances that often mistakenly considered safe. The forensic pathologist said: “There’s a false perception that herbal remedies are safer than manufactured [...]

Vitamin C Slows Ageing

Touted as a remedy for common cold, Vitamin C has also shown promise in slowing down the ageing process. A study has shown that it facilitates output of embryonic-like stem cells from adult cells. Over the past few years, it has been known that adult cells can be reprogrammed into cells with characteristics similar to [...]

Budgets For Preventive Medicine Low

Preventive medicine plays an important role in health care, particularly in epidemic prevention and in checkups. However, the budget for preventive medicine remains low. Pham Le Tuan, head of the Planning and Finance Department under the Ministry of Health, told the Daily on Tuesday that the State budget for preventive medicine was poor and failed [...]

Cancer Drug Preserves Insulin Cells In Diabetes

Rituxan, a drug used to treat cancer and rheumatoid arthritis, may help slow the development of newly discovered type 1 or juvenile diabetes, researchers reported on Wednesday. The drug may interfere with the body’s mistaken destruction of the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, the researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. “What this [...]

Benefits of Knowing Where To Buy

Above and foremost, the best thing to be done is just have presence in my mind, be smart, and attentive enough before you buy anything online, and certainly before you make any big purchases, be sure to check out the websites and see to it that you are not dealing with bogus one because there [...]

Herb Shop That Just Seems To Have It All

Herbs can play an important role in our health. Keep in mind that although they are plant-based, herbs are powerful medicinal agents. “Natural” or “organic” does not automatically mean “safe” especially if you are taking pharmaceutical medicines. But if you use vitamins and herbs for your health, how do you choose the best brands? Herb [...]

Herbal Medicine To Be Regulated In UAE

The Ministry of Health (MoH) has announced that it has put together a list of rules and regulations on the distribution and sales of herbal based medicines in the country said Dr Amin Hussain Al Amiri, Executive Director of Medical Practices and Licensing Affairs at the ministry. In a report published in the Arabic local [...]

Element Causing Asthma

British scientists claim to have identified a key element in the development of chronic asthma. Remodeling occurs when the small airways in the lungs of people change gradually with time as their lungs respond to the presence of particles such as dust, pollen and mould in the air they breathe. Scientists from King’s College London [...]

Tomato, As Heart Medicine

Baked, sun-dried, turned into relish or fresh in salads, tomatoes are one of our favorite foods. And last week, when a dietary supplement containing condensed tomato extract was launched, it was hailed by the medical world as a heart medicine. The pills, named Ateronon, contain lycopene, which has been found to reduce the damage inflicted [...]

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