There are various herbal medicines for cancer treatment in the market nowadays, therefore it seems worth to discuss their safety and effectiveness. Introduction This article is summary of discussion via researchgate.net. Hopefully it will stimulate further discussion and research. I once had a colleague in a university, he was a professor of postgrad studies. About three years ago he suffered a...

AANA Journal/December 2007/Vol. 75, No. 6 431 system, also found in valerian, are believed to be responsible for most biological effects of valerian by inhibiting the breakdown or enhancing the effect of GABA in the brain, producing sedation. No study to date has evaluated the effects of valerian or the combination of valerian and midazolam, a commonly used preanesthetic anxiolytic, on emergenc...

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...