Positive Health Online

Issue 164

GHAYUR and COLLEAGUES,  Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan studied the use of ginger (Zhigiber officinale) in the treatment of dementia.

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Issue 164

THOMPSON and COLLEAGUES, Regional Intensive Care Unit, Royal Hospitals, Belfast Health & Social Care Trust, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK  gillian.thompson@belfasttrust.hscni.net hav1

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Issue 158

MILLAR and MOORE, Northern Ireland Public Health Laboratory, Department of Bacteriology, Belfast City Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, have successfully treated hand warts with tea tree oil.

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Issue 158

KASPER and colleagues, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Wahringer Gurtel 18-20, Austria.  sci-biolpsy@meduniwien.ac.at, have conducted a randomized controll1

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Issue 158

MUKERJEE and colleagues, Department of Neuroscience & Center for Neurovirology, School of Medicine, Temple University, 1900 North 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA, have elucidated a mechanism of action of St John' Wort.

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Issue 157

Suffredini IB, Paciencia ML, Varella AD and Younes RN. Laboratorio de Extracao da Universidade Paulista - UNIP, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil investigated the cytoxicity of plants from the Amazon and Atlantic rain forests against cancer cell lines.

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Issue 156

Song JM.  Seong BL.Yonsei University, Department of Biotechnology, College of Engineering, 134 Shinchon-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Korea.  jaemin@yonsei.ac.kr  review (88 References) the mechanism1

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Issue 155

SCHNITZLER and COLLEAGUES, Hygiene Institute, Department of Virology, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 324, Heidelberg, Germany. Paul_Schnitzler@med.uni-heidelberg.de analysed susc1

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Issue 155

BARDIA and COLLEAGUES, Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA. examined the extent to which US adults use herbs (herbal supplements) in accordance with evidence-based indications.

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Issue 154

AQIL and AHMAD, Department of Agricultural Microbiology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India researched antibacterial activity amongst Indian medicinal plants against multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria.

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Issue 153

POLYAK and co-workers, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98104-2499, USA.  polyak@u.washington.edu investigated the potential clinical efficacy of Silymari1

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Issue 152

DUARTE and co-authors, Research Center for Chemistry, Biology and Agriculture, State University of Campinas, P.O. Box 6171, CEP 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil, mduarte@cpqba.unicamp.br1

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Issue 152

MASTEIKOVA and co-workers, Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Czech Republic, have assessed the antioxidant activity of Gingko, Echinacea, and Ginseng extracts.

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Issue 145

HARDIN, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, School of Nursing, 9201 University Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA,  srhardin@email.uncc.edu, has reviewed (15 references) the anti-arthritic properties1

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Issue 138

DASGUPTA and BERNARD, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Houston, TX 77030, USA, Amitava.Dasgupta@uth.tmc.edu, have reviewed (98 references) the1

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Issue 138

HELLER and co-workers, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90069, USA, have compiled a top-ten list of Herbal medicines and Supplements used by patients presenting for cosmetic surgery.

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Issue 137

DONG and co-authors, Institute of BioAgricultural Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan 115, Republic of China, have developed a new method for screening herbal medicines for their pharmacological properties.Abstract:

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Issue 137

GURIB-FAKIM, Faculty of Science, University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius, has reviewed (89 references) medicinal plants in the 21st century.Abstract: Plants have provided man with all his needs in terms of shelter, 1

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Issue 137

LINDE and co-workers, Technische Universitat Munchen, Centre for Complementary Medicine Research, Kaiserstrasse 9, Munich, Germany, 80801, Klaus.Linde@lrz.tu-muenchen.de, have reviewed (79 references)1

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Issue 136

CARSON and co-workers, Microbiology and Immunology (M502), School of Biomedical and Chemical Sciences, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia, have reviewed (158 references) the antimcrobial and1

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