Ginkgo Biloba

An estimated 38 million adults in the United States use herbal medicinal products and dietary supplements. Unlike prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals, herbal products are not well regulated by the Federal Food and Drug Administration....

Letty Cottin Pogrebin has never been one to sit back and stay quiet. Not hardly. A lifelong activist and writer, she co-founded Ms. magazine with Gloria Steinem in 1971, staking her flag in the frontlines of the American feminist movement. Over the...

Dear Pharmacist: My partner has cancer and is receiving chemotherapy. She's responding well but now has trouble with simple math, decision making, and she doesn't finish her sentences. Can chemo do that? — B.G., San Diego Dear B.G.: Scientists are...

Thanks to a $374,000 taxpayer-funded grant, we now know that inhaling lemon and lavender scents doesn't do a lot for our ability to heal a wound. With $666,000 in federal research money, scientists examined whether distant prayer could heal AIDS. It could...

Dear Pharmacist: I read your Facebook post about improving memory with B vitamins. Can you elaborate more one day? — C.K., Nashville, Tenn. Dear C.K.: Most people know that ginkgo, vinpocetine, eleuthero and acetyl-L carnitine support memory...

I started my day with a fuzzy head—the kind of fuzzy head that people generally get when they are hung over. Except I’m not hung over. I just didn’t sleep well last night. I had a ton of writing I wanted to get done, and my fuzzy head wasn...

Congress held a hearing recently on how supplements are marketed to our nation's elderly. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) studied more than 40 herbal supplements, looking at what the supplements actually contained and how they were being...