We have been using ginger as medicine for 2,500 years. Science has just proven us right

Before pharmacies occupied every corner, ginger already existed. What for more than two millennia was the best kept secret of Asian pharmacies, today is undergoing the most rigorous examination of the microscope. This underground stem—technically a rhizome, not a root—has gone from being a simple cookie seasoning to becoming a protagonist in clinical nutrition. As … Read more

We have accepted that sport is “medicine” for the body. Now science is discovering its side effects

Physical exercise can be prescribed as a drug in doctors’ offices, even though it is not packaged in a simple pill that we take. This is because the evidence behind it has made it more than clear that playing sports can prevent a large number of chronic diseasesI know even have a very good old … Read more

Behind this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine there is a whole lesson in scientific policy for Spain and it does not seem that we are going to learn it

The Nobel Prizes arrive and, like every year, the media they are filled with reports on why Spain resists the great scientific awards of the contemporary world. And it is not a lie: the last Spaniard to win one in science, Severo Ochoa, did so 66 years ago. Being a relatively important country internationally, it … Read more

The Nobel Prize Physiology and Medicine 2025 is for Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi

The first 2024 Nobel Prize, the one awarded in Physiology and Medicine, has been awarded to three people: Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for his discoveries related to peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from damaging the body. The discovery. The Committee has recognized the important role of the identification … Read more

In his battle for being the best back pain medicine, ibuprofen has just found a serious competitor: cannabis

Lumbar pain is something that can be very common in society by the clinic so annoying that it has associated as the problems getting up from a chair, to walk or even to bend down. This makes research focused on seeking a treatment for this type problem that exceeds anti -inflammatory and analgesic classics. AND … Read more

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