For 5 millennia, Cannabis sativa has been used throughout the world medically, recreationally, and spiritually. From the mid-19th century to the 1930s, American physicians prescribed it for a plethora of indications, until the federal government started imposing restrictions on its use, culminating in 1970 with the US Congress classifying it as a Schedule I substance, illegal, and without medic...

The need for new and effective/efficient antibacterial therapeutics and diagnostics is necessary if we want to be able to maintain and improve the protection against pathogenic bacteria. Bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to traditionally used antibiotics and as a result are a major health concern. The number of deaths and hospitalizations due to bacteria is increasing. Current method...

The article is an interview with Prof. Jeffrey Kordower, the Founding Director of ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center at Arizona State University, conducted by Min Zhu Department Neurology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to First Medical on behalf Aging Pathobiology and Therapeutics.

The doctor-patient relationship is examined an emphasis on the comparison between professional and moral principles. Many therapeutic measures have opposite-directed alternative steps with an equal degree of justification, so that no logical preference is attainable and conflicts ensue. Thus patients come for relief and are ordered to endure further pain and discomfort; or weaker individuals ex...

Hydrogels have been used for biomedical applications in recent decades. They are a perfect candidate for regenerative medicine as they resemble the extracellular matrix of native tissues. In addition, their highly hydrated structure makes them a suitable choice for drug and other therapeutics delivery. Injectable hydrogels have increasingly gained attention due to their capability for homogeneo...

1 Columbia University Medical Center, Center for Lymphoid Malignancies, New York, NY, USA; 2 Cornell University, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Ithaca, NY, USA; 3 Columbia University Medical Center, Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Statistics 4 Columbia University Medical Center, Division of Experimental Therapeutics, New York, NY, USA 5 Lilly Research Laboratories,...

Control of intracellular trafficking of ICAM-1-targeted nanocarriers by endothelial Na /H exchanger proteins Silvia Muro, Madalina Mateescu, Christine Gajewski, Mary Robinson, Vladimir R. Muzykantov, and Michael Koval Institute for Environmental Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Targeted Therapeutics Program of the Institute of Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, Department of Physi...

D. L. Buckley, J. D. Biglands, A. Larghat, S. P. Sourbron, A. Radjenovic, J. P. Greenwood, and S. Plein Division of Medical Physics, Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, Division Cardiovascular & Neuronal Remodelling, Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, Unit...