Better Drugs as Well as Foods

In economics as well as medicine prevention is better than cure.

217 EDITORIALS In economics as well as medicine prevention is better than cure Health technology assessment is a difWcult business. Decision making in health care must be evidence-based but then the opportunity cost of waiting for perfect evidence is the beneWt foregone from earlier adoption of a technology. In the UK the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) was established to weig...

Understanding foods as soft materials.

Foods make up some of the most complex examples of soft condensed matter (SCM) with which we interact daily. Their complexity arises from several factors: the intricacy of components, the different aggregation states in which foods are encountered, and the multitude of relevant characteristic time and length scales. Because foodstuffs are governed by the rules of SCM physics but with all the co...

Phytochemicals Components as Bioactive Foods

metalloid compounds as drugs

the six elements commonly known as metalloids are boron, silicon, germanium, arsenic, antimony, and tellurium. metalloid containing compounds have been used as antiprotozoal drugs. boron-based drugs, the benzoxaboroles have been exploited as potential treatments for neglected tropical diseases. arsenic has been used as a medicinal agent and arsphenamine was the main drug used to treat syphilis....

Muscular Dystrophy: Brain, as well as brawn?

Mutations in the dystrophin gene can lead to muscular dystrophy. The dystrophin-associated complex of proteins that was first characterized at the muscle cell membrane is now also being found in other cell types.