Alternative medicine

Experts say a $15-million trial to explore stem cells from cord blood for treating autism is premature

Firms are fighting with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Supreme Court for the right to patent natural products and processes

Despite its popularity, opinions on acupuncture are divided

Exercises, surgeries and pharmacological interventions can aid vertigo sufferers

A solution that protects rat livers from freezing could extend the transplant window for human organs

My PhD mostly dealt with research blogs from ResearchBlogging.org (RB) an aggregator of blog posts covering peer-reviewed research. In this article, we (Prof.

Researchers who compared peer-reviewed articles to the Wikipedia pages for the 10 most costly medical conditions in the U.S. discovered incorrect information on nine out of 10 pages. Dina Fine Maron reports

 

Alexander Shulgin, the most prolific psychedelic chemist in history, has died at the age of 88. I interviewed Shulgin and his wife and co-researcher Ann at their home in California in 1999, when I was researching my 2003 book Rational Mysticism.

Desperate to develop new drugs for malaria and other ailments, researchers are running clinical trials with traditional herbal medicines—and generating promising leads

And a new diabetes drug targets those sweet receptors

An improved method of eliminating the agonizing pellets

I recently got into an argument, again, about cancer. The occasion was a talk by one of my colleagues at Stevens Institute, philosopher Gregory Morgan, on the fascinating history of research into cancer-causing viruses.