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Microneedle Drug-Delivery Patches May Replace Syringes One Day
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Emory University, UC Santa Barbara and Zosano Pharma are hard at work,
Drying the tears of little children, de-freaking the phobics and the Adrian Monks of the world.
In the works, is a small, sometimes gel-dissolvable patch bristling with teeny-tiny needles.
The purpose: get drugs into the body that would ordinarily be administered by means originally designed as much for physical pain and psychological torture as they were for chemical-delivery…
Cheeky Monkey Stomach Flu UPDATE!: Reader Zach Crunches Some Research For Us
Fellow HT-ers, Check this out: Now that cold+ stomach flu season is in full swing,
I thought it would be a plus to the site for one of our commenters to have his say come up in a post.
Our pal Zach had a very detailed read of one of the full studies cited in the Cheeky Monkey Stomach Flu post awhile back.
He was nice enough to cook down some of the conclusions into his comment which…
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And Now For Something Completely Different: Health Promotion Fail
Free Gas or Free Meth is a tough choice.
Most kids are energetic enough as it is, though.
But hey,..
Two Inhalation-Based Nanoparticle Deaths In China
Two women are dead in China as a result of nanoparticle inhalation exposure of almost a year.
Without increased precautions, these are probably the first of many confirmed cases in the future of death due to nanoparticle exposure.
It’s a terrible thing to have been right about, but here’s the original article where we called exactly this type of health risk…
What The World Needs Now … Is An Alzheimer’s-Prion-Blockage Buster
Now that they’ve been linked to some cases of Alzheimer’s, we need a prion-killer more than ever.
-Or at least something to break up the structures they form in those cases.
Because what the Yale team found out is that the Beta-Amyloid glop that normally hallmarks the disease is made worse when it runs into prions. That-is, the non-mutant,…
Echinacea Is Cat’s Butt At Restoring Prairies, Not So At Fixing Colds. -Unless …
According to this study by Turner & Pals, Echinacea is not effective against the common cold.
-Bummer.
If you believe that study.
There may be light at the end of the tunnel, though.
This post by UVA Med + Turner himself reveals something interesting about Echinacea versus other herbal supplements; especially tricky ones like Kava…