Showing posts with label pharmaceuticals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pharmaceuticals. Show all posts

Monday, October 22, 2018

Researchers Have Come Up With A Drug Cocktail That Lengthens Lifespan!





"A team of researchers led by Principal Investigator Dr. Jan Gruber from Yale-NUS College has discovered a combination of pharmaceutical drugs that not only increases healthy lifespan in the microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), but also delays the rate of ageing in them, a finding that could someday mean longer, healthier lives for humans. " Read more....





Researchers discover drug cocktail that increases lifespan. Medical Xpress.
October 22, 2018, Yale-NUS College

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Study Identifies Several Adulterants in Numerous Weight Loss Products!


 
A recent study determined that 56% of a sampling of 164 food supplements for weight loss contained active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). These adulterants ranged from pharmaceuticals that have been taken off the market because of toxicity to antidepressants. According to the results of this study, it is obvious the poor manufacturing processes for weight loss supplements and the need for better quality control.

 Proton NMR for detection, identification and quantification of adulterants in 160 herbal food supplements marketed for weight loss. Journal of pharmaceutical and biomedical analysis, Vol. 124 (22 February 2016), pp. 34-47 by Rabab Hachem, GaĆ«tan Assemat, Nathalie Martins, et al. http://www.citeulike.org/user/kimberlykramer2015/article/13963971