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Ethnopharmacology: traditional medicine and modern drug discovery

Pharmaceutical Technology

Traditional medicine refers to the knowledge, skills and practices that indigenous and different cultures use to maintain health, encompassing forms such as herbal medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and acupuncture.

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Grand Rounds July 28, 2023: How Can Researchers Fight Misinformation About Medicine? (Carl T. Bergstrom, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Bergstrom, PhD Professor, Department of Biology University of Washington Slides Keywords Research, Misinformation, Media, Social Media Key Points Misinformation abounds in medicine and about medicine. As researchers, we are producers and consumers of the medical literature. It is important to avoid hype.

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Six Velocity Principal Investigators Co-Author Article Published in Nature Medicine

Velocity Clinical Research

Six Velocity Principal Investigators coauthored an article recently published in Nature Medicine. 5-containing bivalent mRNA-1273.222 vaccine with the ancestral Wuhan-Hu-1 mRNA-1273 as booster doses. The article covers the results of a Phase 2/3 trial of the Omicron BA.4/BA.5-containing

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Common medications contain animal byproducts, study finds

Scienmag

No FDA regulations in place to alert patients when medication is derived from animals More physicians and pharmacists are advocating for patients to be made aware of animal byproducts contained in common medications, according to new research in the Journal of Osteopathic Medicine.

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Why have medicines progressed so little in the last decades?

Drug Discovery World

Why has there been so little progress in medicine? After all, these failures come on top of decades and decades of research into these diseases. Animal research Unfortunately, most of the research into these diseases has been conducted on animals. Why has it been so unproductive?

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Where is the promise for plant-based medicines? Part 3 

Drug Discovery World

In the third and final part of this series of articles focused on plant-based medicines, DDW’s Megan Thomas evaluates therapeutic breakthroughs using plant-based products in drug discovery. In this study, researchers discovered how EGCG breaks apart tangles of the protein tau, a ‘hallmark’ of Alzheimer’s disease.

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EHR Systems: Tackling Physician Burnout with AMA’s 2023 Research Grants

XTalks

The American Medical Association (AMA) recently announced the recipients of the 2023 Electronic Health Record (EHR) Use Research Grant Program. Nine organizations will receive a total of $589,000 for research focused on studying the use of EHR systems. MedStar will study EHR inbox prioritization among primary care physicians.