The nomination of Robert Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services is a travesty. His ideas about vaccination, raw milk, hyperbaric oxygen, HIV, Wi-Fi and COVID fly in the face of...
You are likely aware of the large number of drugs that have been developed from chemicals found in plants, including aspirin from willow bark, atropine from deadly nightshade, and both morphine and...
This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette.
It is a lifesaver, stocked in every emergency room! N-acetylcysteine (NAC) is amazingly effective as an antidote to acetaminophen poisoning.
The farmer had purchased some potassium permanganate. Exactly why he needed it isn鈥檛 clear but using it as a disinfectant to clean the udders and teats of cows before and after milking is a...
"I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet."聽 With these words Victor Frankenstein began his account of the...
Chemistry can be roughly divided into two branches, analysis and synthesis. Chemists either try to identify existing substances or make new ones. By the early 19th century, a number of substances...
RSS