The traditional uses and increasing popularity of African wormwood have resulted in a number of commercial herbal products. But with insufficient clinical data, it’s not yet known whether African ...

Medicinal plants and their varied uses span from ancient medicine to modern cosmetics and pharmaceuticals amid a surging demand for more.

Czerne Reid, who is from Jamaica, is a senior lecturer at the University of Florida and an independent science journalist and editor in Gainesville, Florida. I am a pharmacologist at the University of ...

Depika Dwarka receives funding from Durban University Technology. My colleagues and I from the Durban University of Technology and the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa are among the ...

Men's sexual and reproductive health may be awkward to talk about, but there's a need to do so. For example, about one-sixth of all couples worldwide have difficulty conceiving children, and in half ...

Source: Safruddin, Armas, Ulil Azhari, Adami, used with permission. The wild Sumatran orangutans of the Suaq Balimbing research area in Gunung Leuser National Park, Indonesia, have been the subjects ...

Plants have directly contributed to the development of important drugs. The antimalarial treatment artemisinin, pain medication morphine, and cancer chemotherapy taxol are just three examples of drugs ...