One of the mandates of our Office is to foster students鈥� skills in communicating science. We encourage students to submit articles and we publish the ones that we consider to be well written. These...
Many pharmacologists and scientists work with 鈥渕edicine men鈥� in order to discover drugs that originate from rainforest plants. For example, an African tribe introduced the world to the Madagascar...
Nitric oxide is a messenger chemical used by the body to relax blood vessels and has therefore been studied for its potential to treat angina and high blood pressure. One way to increase levels in...
Cranberries are commonly associated with Thanksgiving but in early America they played a varied role. Besides the berries serving as food, the plant鈥檚 leaves were commonly used for tea or as a...
Past studies have suggested that a connection may exist between diet and breast cancer. A paper published in the prestigious journal, Science, proposes a possible explanation. It seems that a...
It is so seductively simple.聽 If you want to avoid cancer, just make sure your body is 鈥渁lkaline!鈥澛� Here is the rationale.聽 When a cell becomes cancerous it reduces its use of oxygen and cranks up...
On my radio show today the story of putting a bar of soap under the sheet to cure leg cramps came up again. When science leaves a void, as it does with the treatment of leg cramps, unconventional...
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