Ownership and Sustainability Issues of Botanical Medicines

Botanical drugs: a future for herbal medicines.

Changimg face of central European aquaculture: sustainability issues

Pond aquaculture is the most significant fish production method in central Europe, approximately 70% of the total fish production is originated from traditional fish ponds in this region, which is a resource-saving, ecologically sustainable production method. However, the growth of this sector is not expected because of the low production capacity of valuable fish species and the relatively hig...

Ownership : Trends , Determinants , Issues

Software patents and university-owned patents represent two of the more controversial intellectual property developments of the past 25 years. For the last few years, the European Union has been embroiled in a fierce debate over the merits of explicitly allowing software patents. In the U.S., where such patents clearly exist, various legal scholars have quarreled with the breadth of software pa...

The Orphan Nuclear Receptors: Unrecognized Targets of Botanical Medicines?

Members of this receptor family are related to each other in terms of their amino acid sequence and their function within cells. They therefore have structural features in common. These include a central highly conserved DNA binding domain and generally greater than 60% homology in the ligand binding domain (LBD). The quintessential characteristic of nuclear receptors, and the basis for the nam...

Use of Traditional Botanical Medicines During Pregnancy in Rural Rwanda.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the perceptions of healthcare and traditional medicine providers regarding the type, indications, side effects, and prevalence of traditional medicine use amongst pregnant women in a rural Rwandan population. METHODS Six focus groups with physicians, nurses, and community health workers and four individual in-depth interviews with traditional medicine providers were held...