Did you know that India wastes around 40 percent of its fruits and vegetable produce? When Chennai native Deepak Rajmohan stumbled upon this fact, he was horrified and wanted to do something about it. With this intention, the 29-year-old returned from the US, where he was working in a company, to his homeland. He travelled through different villages in Karnataka to ... Read More »
Whether you are planning tp loose weight or trying to get fit, your diet plan is pretty much incomplete without fruits. They are a powerhouse of nutrition, packed with all essential nutrients like vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, dietary fibre, etc, that aid the proper functioning of the human body. Also, studies point out that the regular consumption of fruits can help ... Read More »
A Cochrane review, published on 17 November 2022, has concluded that there is a “strong certainty” that people who use nicotine-containing e-cigarettes to help them stop smoking are more likely to quit than those who use other forms of nicotine replacement therapy. Researchers from the international Cochrane Collaboration reviewed current evidence and included 78 studies (22,052 participants), of which half ... Read More »
You’ve probably heard that vitamin D is important. But what does it do in the body? And how do you know if you need more of it? Find out from HSS bone health expert Marci Goolsby. Most of us know by now that vitamin D is good for us—especially in the winter, when sunlight (our main source of it) is ... Read More »
A team of researchers, headed by the Drug Delivery Group at Uppsala University, may now be on the track of a solution through a new, small-scale and fast method of determining a drug’s bioavailability (the fraction available to work in biological processes) inside cultured cells. Read more @http://www.worldpharmanews.com/research/4016-shortcut-method-in-drug-development Read More »
Impurities in pharmaceuticals are the unwanted chemicals that remain with the active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), or develop during formulation, or upon aging of both API and formulated APIs to medicines. Impurities are substances inside a confined amount of liquid, gas, or solid, which differ from the chemical composition of the material or compound. Impurities are either naturally occurring or added ... Read More »
Plant extract shows promise in treating pancreatic cancer A natural extract derived from India’s neem tree could potentially be used to treat pancreatic cancer, according to a new study in the journal Scientific Reports. Biomedical scientists at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso (TTUHSC El Paso) tested nimbolide, a compound found in neem leaves, against pancreatic cancer in ... Read More »
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