The lay media, and especially the Internet, contain many misleading claims for health
products which have previously been inadequately regulated by consumer law. This was an …

These are some of the questions addressed by contributors to this special edition. CAM
practitioners usually style themselves as more patient-centered and caring. Effectively, they are …

More than two months after reporting one case of evidence-free claims to Trading Standards
(for an obesity remedy) under the Unfair Trading Regulations 2008, 1 we have nothing but …

The phycobilisome is an oligomeric chromoprotein complex that serves as the principal mid-visible
light-harvesting system in cyanobacteria. Here we report the observation of excitation-…

Of all the UK government’s offices of state, perhaps the least desirable is that of Secretary of
State for Health. A minister of defence can win wars, a Chancellor of the Exchequer can …

I was fascinated by the study by Thorp et al. on the magnetic effects of Covid-19 vaccination–or
rather the lack of the same [1]. The paper’s title is in no way supported by the data. A …

Despite its affinity for fibrin, tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) administration causes systemic
fibrinogenolysis. To investigate the mechanism, t-PA was incubated with plasma in the …

Batroxobin is a thrombin-like serine protease from the venom of Bothrops atrox moojeni that
clots fibrinogen. In contrast to thrombin, which releases fibrinopeptide A and B from the NH 2 …

Although exosites 1 and 2 regulate thrombin activity by binding substrates and cofactors
and by allosterically modulating the active site, it is unclear whether there is direct allosteric …

… Einstein X-ray counts in 3 mm bins during event B, the marginal … to 1113 UT but then rose
rapidly at about 1113 UT (see … total U-band emission for events A and B are approximately R = …