Curcuminised Chicken
There are two articles in the journal Cell this week, which talk about the value of traditional medicine, especially Ayurveda, in modern drug discovery and medicine. The articles are encouraging, and they essentially say that modern pharma is now actively pursuing the development of some of the medicines. There are five molecules cited which [...]
Since we are on the contentious subject of drugs and patents, it is worth pointing to another lively debate that has been going on in the blogosphere. In a nutshell, this is what it is about; Merck has a bestselling anti-HIV drug named Efavirenz. They offered to sell it to Brazil at a reduced price. [...]
Some idiot on a bicycle slammed into me yesterday. Fortunately I did not break anything, but the bruises are giving me an ucomfortable time since then. After rinsing both knees with chlorhexidine and iodine, I was not concerned; if there was an infection, antibiotics would take care of it.
But it wouldn’t have been that way [...]