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Ibogaine is a psychoactive indole alkaloid obtained either by extraction from plants in the family Apocynaceae such as Tabernanthe iboga, Voacanga africana, and Tabernaemontana undulata or by semi-synthesis from the precursor compound voacangine, another plant alkaloid.
Tabernanthe iboga (iboga) is an evergreen rainforest shrub native to Central Africa. A member of the Apocynaceae family indigenous to Gabon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Republic of Congo, it is cultivated across Central Africa for its medicinal and other effects.
Vaccines are another method of virotherapy that use attenuated or inactivated viruses to develop immunity to disease. An attenuated virus is a weakened virus that incites a natural immune response in the host that is often undetectable. The host also develops potentially life-long immunity due to the attenuated virus's similarity to the actual ...
Researchers have found that a novel drug molecule may fight the development of early-onset Parkinson’s disease in younger people. The new compound, BIO-2007817, is from the family of ...
The risk of developing certain cancers can be reduced by not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, limiting alcohol intake, eating plenty of vegetables, fruits, and whole grains, vaccination against certain infectious diseases, limiting consumption of processed meat and red meat, and limiting exposure to direct sunlight.
A new drug increased the lifespans of mice by almost 25%, decreased deaths related to cancer and other diseases, igniting hope for slowing aging in humans. New drug helps fight typical signs of ...
The benefits of eradication include ending all morbidity and mortality caused by the disease, financial savings for individuals, health care providers, and governments, and enabling resources used to control the disease to be used elsewhere. [6] To date, two diseases have been eradicated using herd immunity and vaccination: rinderpest and smallpox.
Siga Technologies' antiviral drug tecovirimat helped the very sickest mpox patients in a trial in Democratic Republic of Congo recover more quickly than those given a placebo, the company said ...