June 2019 – Page 17 – Health Topics, From Latest Studies to Medical News, Articles, and Editorial

Xanthium strumarium, used in folk medicine, shown to have anti-inflammatory effects

June 25, 2019 by Health Topic Contributor

(Natural News) Korean researchers investigated the anti-inflammatory potential of Xanthium strumarium, a plant extensively used in traditional Chinese medicine. Their findings were published in The American Journal of Chinese Medicine. Rough cocklebur (X. strumarium) has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for many years to treat arthritis, bronchitis, and rhinitis. The researchers investigated the mechanism by which it ameliorates… … Read more

Exploring the efficacy of poria mushrooms in regulating energy metabolism

June 25, 2019 by Health Topic Contributor

(Natural News) In this study, researchers from Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in China evaluated the effects of Poria, a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), on the substance and energy metabolism of rats with cold deficiency and heat deficiency syndromes. Their results, which included comparisons between Poria and two other TCMs, were published in the Chinese… … Read more

Widely available antibiotics could be used in the treatment of ‘superbug’ MRSA

June 25, 2019 by Health Topic Contributor

Some MRSA infections could be tackled using widely-available antibiotics, suggests new research from an international collaboration. View original article Author:

Trump signs executive order requiring hospitals to disclose prices to patients – CNN

June 25, 2019 by Health Topic Contributor

Trump signs executive order requiring hospitals to disclose prices to patients CNN President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday aimed at making health care prices more readily available to consumers. >View original article Author:

AbbVie to Acquire Allergan, Botox’s Maker, for $63 Billion

June 25, 2019 by NewYorkTimes

The deal would give AbbVie a potent source of popular treatments as it faces the loss of patent protection for its best-selling drug, Humira. View original article Author:

A Year After Approval, Migraine Drugs Are Changing Lives. But Insurance Battles Are Creating a Whole New Headache

June 25, 2019 by TimeMagazine

Last May, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Amgen and Novartis’ Aimovig, the first drug specifically designed to prevent chronic migraines, and offered new hope to the millions of Americans regularly weathering these debilitating headaches. Just months later came two other drugs in its class, Eli Lilly’s Emgality and Teva Pharmaceuticals’ Ajovy. About a … Read more

NIH Director Francis Collins Has a Plan to Help Eliminate “Manels”

June 25, 2019 by TimeMagazine

If you want Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, to speak at your next event or conference, he has one important condition. Any panel in which he participates has to include a diverse range of speakers from different backgrounds and show a fair gender distribution. “If I don’t see that,” he … Read more

New Research Is Focusing on Treating Teens’ Suicidal Thoughts With Support of Friends, Family

June 25, 2019 by TimeMagazine

A 16-year-old boy, a high school athlete with good grades, told his therapist that he was thinking about taking his own life. That therapist, Dennis Kolsch, got him admitted to an inpatient ward. “He didn’t have a great experience in there, but he was safe,” said Kolsch, a licensed mental health counselor in Cocoa Beach, … Read more

Popular FDA-approved heart pill found to contain deadly, cancer-causing chemical

June 25, 2019 by Health Topic Contributor

(Natural News) An online pharmacy company known as Valisure, which is currently licensed to operate in 37 states, has issued an urgent warning to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about a cancer-causing chemical found in valsartan, a popular blood pressure pharmaceutical manufactured by Novartis and several other drug companies. As it turns out,… … Read more

Taiwan citizens protest communist Chinese infiltration of their national media… but U.S. citizens say nothing as the same happens in America

June 25, 2019 by Health Topic Contributor

(Natural News) While some immigrants to the United States have lived under socialist or Communist authoritarianism, no native-born citizens have, though liberals will swear to you that POTUS Donald Trump is a tyrant. He’s not, of course, and never has been, yet the so-called “mainstream” American media foment and enable that lie simply because they… … Read more