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Team to study health effects of botanical estrogens

( University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) An ongoing research initiative into the health effects of botanical estrogens will get an $8 million boost from the National Institutes of Health. The Botanical Research Center, based at the University of Illinois, will address the many unknowns associated with use of botanical estrogens. These plants and plant-based compounds are often marketed as ...

Testing finds drugs, hormones in water

Trace amounts of antidepressants, caffeine, herbicides and ibuprofen are among the chemicals found so far in state testing that began in mid-May of the raw water at community water treatment plant intakes

Bionovo Receives NIH Grant to Develop Drugs for the Treatment of Female-Specific Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome

EMERYVILLE, Calif., Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Bionovo, Inc. (Nasdaq: BNVI, BNVID) announced today that the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) Small Business Technology Transfer Program, has approved and funded a grant to be shared by Bionovo and Dr. Dale Leitman from the University of California at Berkeley (UCB). The grant ...

Small changes now, big rewards later

Women who are middle-age and older face health concerns particular to their gender and age, such as osteoporosis, breast cancer, ovarian cancer and microvascular disease (a type of heart disease more common in women).

The Mama Grizzly look

It may only be coincidental, but former Miss Arkansas Beth Anne Rankin, the Republican candidate for Congress from the Fourth Congressional District, has a new look. by Arkansas Times Staff It may only be coincidental, but former Miss Arkansas Beth Anne Rankin, the Republican candidate for Congress from the Fourth Congressional District, has a new look. Gone is a cascading, shoulder-length ...