The First Drug Appeared During 140-130 BC

The First Drug Appeared During 140-130 BC.
Archeologists investigating an old shipwreck off the seaside of Tuscany report they have stumbled upon a rare find: a tightly closed tin container with well-preserved c physic dating back to about 140-130 BC. A multi-disciplinary tandem analyzed fragments of the green-gray tablets to decipher their chemical, mineralogical and botanical composition. The results furnish a peek into the complexity and sophistication of ancient therapeutics.

So "The research highlights the continuity from then until now in the use of some substances for the healing of human diseases," said archeologist and lead researcher Gianna Giachi, a chemist at the Archeological Heritage of Tuscany, in Florence, Italy. "The study also shows the dolour that was taken in choosing complex mixtures of products - olive oil, pine resin, starch - in call for to get the desired therapeutic effect and to help in the preparation and assiduity of medicine".

The medicines and other materials were found together in a tight space and are thought to have been originally packed in a breast that seems to have belonged to a physician, said Alain Touwaide, scientific director of the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions, in Washington, DC Touwaide is a fellow of the multi-disciplinary team that analyzed the materials. The tablets contained an iron oxide, as well as starch, beeswax, pine resin and a compound of plant-and-animal-derived lipids, or fats.

Touwaide said botanists on the dig into team discovered that the tablets also contained carrot, radish, parsley, celery, ungovernable onion and cabbage - simple plants that would be found in a garden. Giachi said that the amalgam and shape of the tablets suggest they may have been used to treat the eyes, as the case may be as an eyewash. But Touwaide, who compared findings from the analysis to what has been understood from ancient texts about medicine, said the metallic component found in the tablets was doubtless used not just for eyewashes but also to treat wounds.

The development is evidence of the effectiveness of some natural medicines that have been used for literally thousands of years. "This message potentially represents essentially several centuries of clinical trials. If natural medicine is occupied for centuries and centuries, it's not because it doesn't work".

According To A New Health Law, The First Visit In Medicare Will Be Free

According To A New Health Law, The First Visit In Medicare Will Be Free.
Starting this year, first-time enrollees in Medicare will be offered uninhibited physicals, courteousness of the imaginative Affordable Care Act. The "Welcome to Medicare" service will be offered only during a person's first year of enrollment in Part B, and the falsify must agree to be paid directly by Medicare for the visit to be free. It's part of an effort to cynosure on preventive medicine, rather than trying to fix problems after they arise. Preventive services covered by Part B cover bone density measurements, mammograms to screen for breast cancer and annual flu shots.

Although "for trustworthy age groups and certain health risk categories, an annual tangible is probably not necessary, in the Medicare age group, which is mostly 65 and above as well as certain people who have disabilities at an earlier age, these rank and file would benefit," said Dr David A McClellan, an aide-de-camp professor of family and community medicine at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine. "There are a million of conditions that physicians can screen for - and head them off at the pass".

Such conditions take in heart disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer and osteoporosis. In reckoning annual physicals allow your primary care physician to get to know you and you to get to know him or her, drift that you might become more willing to share information and the doctor could notice subtle changes in your health that might be missed if you go in only when you have a haleness issue.