in the declined mortality rate in industrialized countries, while the number of patients suffering from particular chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, or allergic diseases has been increasing. Since most of the modern medicines are allopatic and cannot cure chronic diseases, and since they sometimes have the possibility of side effects, many patients choose to explore complementary...

The use of the urine drug screen (UDS) to test for substances of abuse has become commonplace because urine is relatively easily obtained and concentrations of drug in urine tend to be higher than in other biological matrices (1). The UDS is increasingly utilized as a pre-employment requirement, toxicological screen in the emergency room, as part of a general admissions medical screen at inpati...

Using herbal drugs is the common way for treatment of diseases in traditional and alternative medicine. These drugs have important role and strong cultural background among people in treatment of hyper-billirubinemia. It is necessary to evaluate the effect of herbal drugs by scientific methods. The goal of this study is evaluation the effect of common herbal drugs used in management of neonatal...

OBJECTIVE To describe the prevalence of herbal medicine use among US adults and to assess factors associated with and predictors of herbal use. DESIGN The data for herbal products use were collected from the 2015 National Consumer Survey on the Medication Experience and Pharmacists' Roles. Chi-square test was used to analyz factors associated with herbal use, and predictors of herbal use were...