1. Everything You Need To Know About Bone Scans A bone scan is a study done to show problem spots on the spine. A radioactive chemical, sometimes called a tracer", is injected into the bloodstream. The chemical quickly attaches itself to sections of the bones that are actively making new bone. Images are taken of the skeleton, several hours after the shot. A bone scan can show problems such as fractures of the spine, infection, and bone tumors. It can also be used to resolve bone density and the bone-thinning condition of osteoporosis.
2. How New Acne Drugs Are Developed In 2005 the FDA provided a public draft guidance document to the pharmaceutical industry on the development of drugs to treat acne vulgaris, or acne. The draft guidance document contains the FDA's current thinking on the development of acne drugs and the methods that should be used.
3. Venomous Lizard Puts The Bite On Diabetes The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a drug for the treatment of Type II Diabetes. It wasn't produced in a lab. Instead, the active ingredient comes from the venomous saliva of the Gila Monster lizard.
4. An Udderly Ridiculous Home Remedy Edward Jenner is widely credited as the father of the smallpox vaccination. However, twenty years earlier in 1774, a quick-thinking English farmer named Benjamin Jesty saved his family from smallpox using some pretty unorthodox methods.
5. Medieval Remedies That Still Work Today Home remedies are still around today. Why? Because they work! Why would people continue to use home remedies for hundreds or thousands of years if those remedies didn't work? Learn why.
6. How Dirty Dishes And Stale Bread Saved The World How a brilliant scientist with horrible housekeeping skills turned a contaminated experiment into a cure that saved millions of lives.
7. Not Now, I Have A Headache Discover how barking up the right tree produced one of modern medicine's most widely-used drugs.
8. Diabetes Herbal Remedy Works Better Than Insulin? Another home remedy waiting to be discovered: A new study suggests that a traditional Indian diabetes herb treatment lowers blood sugar and insulin levels as well as today's prescription drugs.
9. Lasers - The New Mythical Gift Of Fire In Greek mythology, the Titan Prometheus gave the gift of fire to Humanity. It provided warmth, light, and energy. Whether or not you believe that myth, humanity has learned to concentrate that light into beams of unimaginable power - Lasers.
10. Is Your Doctor's Hair Removal Laser Safe? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates medical devices in the U.S. The FDA keeps extensive databases on these devices containing lists of the devices, their safety records, pre-market notifications, and pre-market approval notices, to name a few.
