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What is Pharmacology?

Pharmacology is the study of how substances interact with living organisms to produce a change in function.

If substances have medicinal properties, they are considered pharmaceuticals.

The field encompasses drug composition and properties, interactions, toxicology, therapy, and medical applications and antipathogenic capabilities. Development of medication is a vital concern to medicine, but also has strong economical and political implications.

To protect the consumer and prevent abuse, many governments regulate the manufacture, sale, and administration of medication.

In the United States, the main body that regulates pharmaceuticals is the Food and Drug Administration. (FDA)

For more information about the topic Pharmacology, read the full article at Wikipedia.org.

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I am excited to announce that with the recent Google Page Rank Update this blog has gone from a Page Rank of 0 yes that is right zero, to a page rank of 3. I am not quite sure how this will change things but hopefully I will see more visibility in search results as well as hopefully additional advertisings on this site.

For those who do not know, periodically Google Updates a page’s page rank from zero to 10, with 10 being the best. Few sites ever reach beyond a page rank of 7 as it gets exponentially more difficult to increase your page rank. I recently have learned more about the algorithm behind page rank in a electrical engineering class.

Other popular bloggers have also seen a page rank bump, such as Affiliate Confession.

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I just wanted to share some thoughts on the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.
They state on their website that their mission statement is

” to provide a means of self-government relating to professional standards, ethical behavior and responsibilities of its fellows and members; to contribute to the public welfare; to advance the specialty; and to support its fellows and members through education, advocacy and research.”

I feel that by promoting the idea of removing healthy impacted wisdom teeth they are not living up to their mission statement. This is because of the harm it causes thousands of Americans each year when they suffer permanent nerve damage from an elective procedure, or the possibility of even death or more serious complications like a chronic 24/7 headache. Thus I feel that The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons are being unethical and irresponsible in allowing this to continue to occur without any scientific basis to remove health wisdom teeth.

If you want to help put an end to this health hazard please contact The American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons here.

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New research shows women who have weekly migraine are significantly more likely to have a stroke than those with fewer migraines or no migraine at all, but those with lower migraine frequency may face increased risk of heart attacks.

The Women’s Health Study involved nearly 28,000 women health professionals in the United States who were 45 and older. The women did not have cerebrovascular disease at the beginning of the study and were followed for an average of 12 years. During that time, 706 cerebrovascular events, 305 heart attacks, and 310 ischemic strokes occurred.

Of the 3,568 women with migraine at the start of the study, 65 percent reported migraine less than once a month, 30 percent reported one migraine a month and five percent reported at least weekly migraine. Compared to women without migraine, the study found women who had at least weekly migraines were three times more likely to have a stroke, but those with a migraine frequency of less than monthly were one-and-halftimes more likely to have a heart attack.

“Our findings suggest that migraine frequency may be an indicator for increased risk of cardiovascular disease, particularly ischemic stroke,” said study author Tobias Kurth, MD, ScD, with Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, and member of the American Academy of Neurology. “Future studies are needed to address whether migraine prevention reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease.”

Overall, the study found a mixed association between migraine and major cerebrovascular disease suggesting increased risk for women with high and low migraine frequency. “Our results may indicate that the mechanisms by which migraine associates with specific cardiovascular events may differ,” said Kurth. “More research is needed to determine the reasons for these results.”

Adapted from materials provided by American Academy of Neurology.

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A recent article suggests that ongoing study “links even pain-free wisdom teeth to early gum disease that worsens over time, sometimes causing havoc far beyond the mouth. Indeed, pregnant women with gum disease around their wisdom teeth appear to be much more likely to give birth prematurely than unaffected pregnant women. The latest data suggest that as many as 80 percent of people will develop problems with their wisdom teeth.”

I don’t know who came up with this but I don’t think it’s accurate. Most experts no longer believe that crowding is a concern, but the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons typically wrongfully recommends pre-emptive pulling in young adulthood, before symptoms arise, when roots haven’t yet fully formed and surgical risks are lowest. “If you have to have them out when you’re 45, you will not enjoy that,” promises Tony Pogrel, chair of the department of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University of California-San Francisco. Well Tony, when you’re 20 and are disabled by getting your wisdom teeth out you won’t like that either.

Thankfully, nonsurgeons are less gung-ho about preventive pulling. “If they’re not causing pain or infection, and they’re coming in straight, I usually take a wait-and-see approach,” says Cynthia Sherwood, a general dentist and national spokesperson for the Academy of General Dentistry. Those who wait are advised to have their wisdom teeth checked yearly, since they are tough to keep clean and may get infected or shift position.

Because wisdom teeth don’t form until around age 5, Anthony Silvestri, director of dental anatomy and occlusion at Tufts University’s dental school, foresees a day when lasers will be used to prevent that from happening. He and colleagues have had success in animals. “It doesn’t make sense,” he says, “that everyone should be having surgery for a useless tooth.”

Adapted from U.S. News

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