Addressing the current challenges to finding new anthelminthic drugs

Drugs in pregnancy: acknowledging challenges--finding solutions.

ue to obvious ethical issues of experimenting drugs during fetal development, women and their unborn babies are commonly excluded from drug trials. As a result, these two groups of patients are commonly orphaned from the revolution in drug therapy witnessed in the last generation. The removal of Bendectin from the American market despite being safe in pregnancy sent a chilling signal to drug co...

Islamic and Iranian traditional materia medica works as the treasure for finding new effective drugs

The Materia Medica works of Rhazes, (vol2 of Canon), Al-Biruni (Kitab as -Saidana), Abu Mansur (Haqaiq al-Adwiya), Gorgani (Vol 9 and 10 of Zahira-e-Harazmsahi), Ansari Shirazi (Ihtiyarat-e-Bdi i), Hakim Mu min (Tuhfa) and Aqili Hurasani (Aqrabuzin-e Kabir) and others are the most important works of Islamic and Iranian physicians on Natural Drugs. The systematic pharmacognostical, pharmacologic...

Islamic and Iranian traditional materia medica works as the treasure for finding new effective drugs

The Materia Medica works of Rhazes, (vol2 of Canon), Al-Biruni (Kitab as -Saidana), Abu Mansur (Haqaiq al-Adwiya), Gorgani (Vol 9 and 10 of Zahira-e-Harazmsahi), Ansari Shirazi (Ihtiyarat-e-Bdi i), Hakim Mu min (Tuhfa) and Aqili Hurasani (Aqrabuzin-e Kabir) and others are the most important works of Islamic and Iranian physicians on Natural Drugs. The systematic pharmacognostical, pharmacologic...

The Current Status of New Antidiabetic Drugs

Dear Editor, Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a world-wide public health problem [1]. As such, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), pharmaceutical companies and medical researchers/practitioners should be discussing the costs vs. the benefits for economically-disadvantaged populations that are disproportionately affected by T2DM and, therefore, suffering the most [2]. The current debate ab...

Chiral Drugs: Current Status of the Industry and the Market