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Well, Stockholm isn't calling yet, but good news on the cold front was reported at a medical conference in Toronto last week. In preliminary tests sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, an experimental compound with an ungainly moniker--BIRR 4--managed to cut the severity of cold symptoms in half without major side effects. The results were immediately hailed in the media as a breakthrough, although Dr. Ronald Turner, a pediatrician at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston who helped direct the research, was quick to add a dose of caveat. "We've got a ways...
...every standard medical and logical, Henry Jackson, lying unconscious in a New Jersey hospital on his 32nd birthday, was finished. Massive internal hemorrhaging had drained him of 90% of his blood. His level of hemoglobin--the vital, oxygen-carrying compound in his red cells--had plummeted from a normal reading of 13 to an ominous 1.7, a number that one of his doctors characterized as "incompatible with survival." A blood transfusion could save him, but his wife, torn between her husband's life and their beliefs as Jehovah's Witnesses--a religious community that prohibits transfusions because of biblical references...
...microscope, and Dr. Charles Donovan demonstrated that specimens could be extracted from the spleen. In their honor, the deadly parasite is called Leishmania donovani. Variants of kala-azar are found in southern Europe and South America. A complex treatment involving daily injections of a potentially toxic, antimony-based compound (as in the drug Pentostam) has been available for a half-century...
...sake?" says Lisa Conte, president and CEO of Shaman. "But wouldn't you know, of the three extracts, the one with the crab in it was the only one that showed activity." Turns out that a component in a crab's shell is needed to coerce the active chemical compound from the plant...
This is not the first time that scientists have lauded broccoli's anticancer benefits. Johns Hopkins' Dr. Paul Talalay and his colleagues first isolated sulforaphane from broccoli in 1992. Tests showed that the compound reduced the incidence of breast tumors in rats by 60%. While vitamin E and other antioxidants attack rogue cancer-causing molecules directly, sulforaphane works indirectly by boosting the body's cancer-fighting defenses. Not all broccoli plants are created equal, however. The amount of sulforaphane found in fresh broccoli varies wildly, making the vegetable an unreliable anticancer agent...