June 17-21, 2013. Dr. Quave will meet with officials in the Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) Health Authority at the Zayed Complex for Herbal Research and Traditional Medicine. Established in 1996, the ZCHRTM “is unique in the sense that under one roof it has interdisciplinary research approach and interfacing traditional systems of medicine with modern scientific research methodology. With the establishment of ZCHRTM, health authorities has taken a step forward for the world wide propagation of herbal medicines which has a long and cherished tradition in the United Arab Emirates and is forming an important part of “National Health Care Delivery System”. Visit their website to learn more about initiatives currently underway at ZCHRTM.
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Could antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" become a bigger killer than cancer?
Antibiotics have saved hundreds of millions of lives. But their continued, widespread use has led to mutated bacteria that are resistant to these drug...
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Just one more reason we should never underestimate the power of plants...or our forebears, who figured this stuff out centuries ago.
16th-century text shows ginkgo seeds can fight skin infections
Inspired by a centuries-old text on traditional Chinese medicine, a young researcher has found that seeds from the gingko tree could prove helpful for...
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Woo! I'm excited to share our new paper on #Australia spiny #Solanum fruit and seed dispersal character evolution across the Monsoon Tropics! SOLANUMS KNOW HOW TO GET AROUND! 🍆🍅 #Botany @MartineBotany @IThaden @FrawleyEmma @dave_tank
Phylogeny of the Australian Solanum dioicum group using seven nuclear genes, with consideration of Symon’s fruit and seed dispersal hypotheses
The dioecious and andromonoecious Solanum taxa (the “S. dioicum group”) of the Australian Monsoon Tropics have been the subject of phylogenetic an...
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Frustrated by pharma not tackling #superbugs, Lord Jim O'Neill proposes a very controversial solution to #AMR research. Says maybe govts should take it over. Pharma fights back saying invested 4x more than govt/fdns in 2016. @BBCNews #AntibioticResistance
'Take over pharma' to make new antibiotics
Bits of the industry could be taken over as no new drugs are being made, says Lord Jim O'Neill.
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Job opportunities in the history of herbal medicine in London, at The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret, a medical museum located in the attic of an eighteenth-century Church
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Welcome to the Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret in London. Discover Europe’s oldest surviving operating theatre.
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