News tagged with bitter pills

Compliance and cost: Bitter pills to swallow in the age of oral chemotherapy

Though the growing shift toward oral chemotherapy agents offers cancer patients greater freedom and independence during their treatment, physicians say use of the new medications also poses more chances for patients to skip ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Ultrasound male contraceptive, overlooked for decades, confirmed to work

Imagine a contraceptive that could, with one or two painless 15-minute non-surgical treatments, provide months of protection from pregnancy. And imagine that the equipment needed were already in physical therapists' ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Big Corn, Big Sugar in bitter US row on sweetener

Big Corn and Big Sugar are locked in a legal and public relations fight in the US over a plan to change the name of a corn-based sweetener that has gotten a bad name.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 17, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 6

Will Steve Jobs' final vendetta haunt Google?

(AP) -- Google can only hope that Steve Jobs' final vendetta doesn't haunt the Internet search leader from his grave.

Technology / Business

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (6) | comments 13

Online tools are increasing the speed at which scientists make discoveries

Not all research papers receive their own hashtag on Twitter. But #arseniclife (as it was dubbed in tweets) was no ordinary paper.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New pre-meal dietary supplement can overcome fat and sugar problems

A little bitter with a little sweet, in the form of a nano-complex dietary supplement taken before meals, can result in a substantial reduction of fat and sugar absorption in the body, Hebrew University of ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Rethinking psychiatry

In 2013, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) will publish the fifth edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a thick, well-respected publication that contains the latest diagnostic criter ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

How does the color of a pill affect its efficacy?

According to recent research the color, shape, taste and even name of a tablet or pill can have an effect on how patients feel about their medication. Choose an appropriate combination and the placebo effect gives the pill ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Translating Chinese medicine for the West

In a traditional Chinese medicine store in central Beijing, part of the Tongrentang chain founded 342 years ago, three white-coated workers follow traditions that stretch even further back in time. They sort and chop an exotic ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 11, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research finds no evidence that popular slimming supplements facilitate weight loss

New research evaluating the effectiveness of a broad selection of popular slimming supplements sold in pharmacies and health food shops has found no evidence that any of them facilitate weight loss beyond the placebo effect.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Zynga plants 'FarmVille' app

Zynga CEO Mark Pincus is expanding his farm. Zynga's ultrapopular Facebook game FarmVille, which has 70 million active monthly players, has launched a mobile app for Apple's iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad touch-screen tablet.

Technology / Software

created Jul 05, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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