Mending the Bones with Natural Products

Mending the Methodological Mistakes

Preparation of this chapter was supported by National Science Foundation Grant no. 1024293 and a grant from the Brady Education Foundation awarded to ASL, and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship awarded to EDS. Play is too often in the American crosshairs, with those who claim it is a waste of time on the one hand and those who claim it is crucially important to developme...

Antimalarial natural products: a review

Objective: Malaria is an infectious disease commonplace in tropical countries. For many years, major antimalarial drugs consisted of natural products, but since 1930s these drugs have been largely replaced with a series of synthetic drugs. This article tries to briefly indicate that some plants which previously were used to treat malaria, as a result of deficiencies of synthetic drugs, have rev...

Mending Mendelism

Mending Minds

Mending Minds. By Paul Winterton. Peter Davies, 1938, 8/6. This book is the result of an investigation undertaken on behalf of one of our great daily newspapers into the conditions obtaining in the Public Mental Hospitals of England and Wales and the subject of mental disease and its treatment in general. Whatever was the original intention of the investigation, the book actually constitutes pe...

The future role of natural products in health care

For thousands of years, one of our many gifts from the Earth has been medicines to treat a myriad of ailments. In the developed world, approximately 25% of prescription products are derived from higher plants, and in the developing world, over 80% of the population relies on plants, in the form of traditional medicine, for their primary health care. In 2050, the Earth will have a population of ...