Chronic alcohol use can cause painful nerve damage known as alcoholic neuropathy, and people with alcohol use disorder experience allodynia — hypersensitivity to pain — during alcohol withdrawal. A newly developed mouse model of withdrawal-related allodynia and alcohol-induced neuropathic pain showed that both pain conditions activate microglia (immune cells) in the spinal cord tissue, but […]
Researchers from the University of Minnesota have found that purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) can boost a person’s immune function. In their report, published in the Journal of Medicinal Food, the team looked at the effects of purple coneflower root extract on murine spleen cells stimulated with concanavalin A. Purple coneflower root extract improves immunity In their report, the team harvested spleen […]
As many people strive to start out the new year with healthy eating habits, it’s important to keep in mind that choosing the right vegetables is just as important to your health as consuming them in the first place. That’s because vegetables are prone to contamination not only from pesticides but also from the air, […]
Fungal diseases are a worldwide public health problem. Oftentimes, the treatment for these diseases are antibiotics. However, the use of antifungal medications are not entirely beneficial. The continuous use of antibiotics led to the increase in drug-resistant fungal infections, making them more difficult to treat. In addition, these drugs have side effects on health and […]