Honeybee: The flying pharmacist

The Therapeutic Effects of Bioactive Compounds in Honeybee Products

Honey, royal jelly, propolis, and bee pollen are potentially beneficial to humans due to their bioactive agents. Different molecules of these honeybee products have been extracted and pharmacologically characterized. Phenolic acid, Major Royal Jelly Proteins (MRJPs), and oligosaccharides are major bioactive substances of these products. Propolis, especially Brazilian type, contains caffeic acid...

Free the pharmacist!

The complexity and diversity of drug therapy for medical conditions continue to expand, resulting in a need for increased sophistication on the part of all care providers. If pharmacists are to be relevant in contemporary practice, they must possess the knowledge and skills to identify and resolve a great variety of drug-related problems. The requirement for pharmacists to have a range of knowl...

The Physician and the Pharmacist

Acrocyanosis: the Flying Dutchman.

Acrocyanosis is symmetric, painless, discoloration of different shades of blue in the distal parts of the body that is marked by symmetry, relative persistence of the skin color changes with aggravation by cold exposure, and frequent association with local hyperhidrosis of hands and feet. Described over a century ago and despite seeming familiarity, it remains a poorly understood condition that...

WhAT DoES ThE honEyBEE SEE

In the nineteenth century, progress on what insects saw was slow and contentious, with fierce argument about whether bees found places by odour or by sight and how they navigated to places, identified them and returned home. The pioneering experiments were done in Germany from 1896 to 1940. None of this research has been previously summarised in English for the scientifically interested laypers...