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The BBC reports today that malaria has started to evolve resistance to the artemesinin family of drugs that are used as the world's front-line defense against the most prevalent and deadly form of the disease. Artemesinin emerged from a Chinese herbal medicine, Qinghaosu, where it was used as a fever treatment for ...

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N-Acetyl-L-tyrosine is showing up in spam emails and on twitter so I had to take a look to find out what claims are being made for it. I suspected that marketers might be calling it a panacea, and I was right. At least one website (which mentions, hilariously, FDA censorship on this) lists several diseases, ...

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According to an AP investigation, US pharma companies have released at least 1000 tonnes of pharmaceuticals into American waterways. This putative contamination of the drinking water supply has been consistently overlooked by the Federal government, their report says. Interestingly, this drugs in the water supply is a topic I discussed at least a decade ago in the original ChemWeb ...

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