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MedicineThis page contains recent news articles, when available, and an overview of Medicine but does not offer medical advice. You should contact your physician with regard to any health issues or concerns.Kitchen spoons may be handy but don't use them to measure out medicine, researchers warn. A new study finds using a kitchen spoon to measure out liquid ... Bartlesville Live New Medicine: 'Cocktails' Against Tumors - 06 Jan 2010 Scientists at the Universities of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB), San Diego (UCSD) and the Massachusetts Institute of ... Softpedia Medical board sues test-preparation firm - 06 Jan 2010 The Philadelphia-based American Board of Internal Medicine announced yesterday that it has filed a suit against a North Jersey company ... Philadelphia Inquirer NW Hospital now officially part of UW Medicine - 06 Jan 2010 UW Medicine is not buying Seattle-based Northwest Hospital, but effectively it will own Northwest's assets as the sole corporate member of UW ... MSN Money Doctors warn cold season could lead to medicine overdose - 06 Jan 2010 Researchers asked students to pour 5 milliliters of medicine into various sizes of spoons. Depending on the size of the spoon, students tended to pour too ... WMBF Mass sack in banks: Medicine after death - 06 Jan 2010 To the best of my professional knowledge, the measures appear like medicine after death or wrong diagnoses for a terminal ailment. ... Daily Sun We may be coming off the medicine, but the pain will linger for a while yet - 06 Jan 2010 After the economic nightmare of 2009, we have woken up to the dawn of a new decade. And it all looks a bit dismal. Britain is likely to have been the last ... Times Online Faculty group presses Wise to step down from Nike's corporate board - 06 Jan 2010 Stephen Schwartz, professor of pathology in the School of Medicine and a member of the AAUP, discusses the need to create regulations that govern ... The Daily of the University of Washington New Approaches Could Bring Better Depression Treatments - 06 Jan 2010 Developing effective drugs will require a whole new paradigm of thought, contends Eve Redei, a psychiatry professor at the Feinberg School of Medicine of ... BusinessWeek Laughter Is the Best Medicine - 06 Jan 2010 It's a well-known saying that may actually be true, according to a number of studies. Evidence suggests laughter is a true health promoter, helping reduce ... To Your Health Finding the G-spot: Is it real? - 06 Jan 2010 The new study is published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. But the lead study author, clinical psychologist Andrea Burri, isn't sure that the question ... CNN Hazards of Obesity Now Rival Smoking in U.S. - 06 Jan 2010 The study is published in the February issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Another recent study concluded that if both smoking and obesity ... BusinessWeek Common drug may prevent skin cancer - 06 Jan 2010 ...anti-inflammatory prescription drug can help decrease the risk of a common skin cancer in humans, says a researcher at Stanford's School of Medicine. ... Times of India AccessEmergency Medicine Adds Custom Curriculum Tool To Ease Medical Training ... - 06 Jan 2010 With Custom Curriculum, medical programs can build a resource that matches their specific needs - mapping AccessEmergency Medicine content and capabilities ... PR Newswire (press release) Lack of vitamin D may up risk of heart and stroke-related deaths - 06 Jan 2010 ...a national expert on disparities in health care and a professor of Family Medicine and Community and Preventive Medicine at URMC. ... Expressindia.com The Best Medicine: Laughter workshop on tap for this week - 06 Jan 2010 Learn about the power of laughter when Friendship House hosts a “How to Create Therapeutic Laughter and Laughter Clubsâ€? workshop, beginning at 9 am Friday ... Canon City Daily Record Dr. Michael Kamrava Accused of Negligence - 06 Jan 2010 The American Society of Reproductive Medicine's guideline states that a woman Suleman's age should not have more than two embryos implanted. ... TheCelebrityCafe.com Reduce Stress, Extend Your Life, Thanks to DNA's 'Life-Expectancy' Gene - 06 Jan 2010 The USCF Research is considered groundbreaking, and the team who discovered the telomere won the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology. ... FOXNews Herbal medicine may be a good alternative - 06 Jan 2010 The insurance companies need to cover herbal medicine and alternative medicine. If the doctors weren't in bed with the pharmaceuticals, there wouldn't be a ... StandardNet Parents warned: Chickenpox still a threat to kids - 06 Jan 2010 The study, published yesterday in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, offers a counterargument to parents who think vaccines for waning and ... The Star-Ledger - NJ.com Villagers know that money does grow on trees, and so does medicine - 06 Jan 2010 ...''More than 80 per cent of people who live in this rural area rely on traditional [herbal] medicine,'' says Wellington Muli, a herbalist. ... Sydney Morning Herald Atul Gawande's 'Checklist' For Surgery Success - 06 Jan 2010 Speaking about dealing with unexpected challenges in medicine, Atul Gawande — a surgeon who writes for the New Yorker when he's not at his day job at ... NPR Doctors Tighten Grasp On Pain Medication - 06 Jan 2010 And a lot of it can be blamed on the over-use of pain-relieving medicine. One research pharmacist says as a result, doctors are tempted to under-medicate, ... KEZI TV Health care: progressive start - 06 Jan 2010 ...cost-saving measure, doing more for cutting costs than any other delivery-system reform in the bill, according to The New England Journal of Medicine. ... The News Record A lie gets halfway around the world... - 06 Jan 2010 The results of the testing on this vaccine were reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. It is instructive to learn that the tests for safety and to ... Mangalorean.com Drink warm water to ease effects of colon probes? - 06 Jan 2010 ...small growths in the colon being missed, Dr. Jae J. Kim, at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine in Seoul noted in an email to Reuters Health. ... Reuters National Library of Medicine Resource Update: HazMap has added 265 agents - 06 Jan 2010 Haz-Map, a database on the effects of occupational exposure to potentially toxic agents from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), has added 265 agents. ... ResourceShelf (blog) Dr. George Mychaskiw Joins Drexel University College of Medicine and Hahnem - 06 Jan 2010 PHILADELPHIA (January 5, 2009) Drexel University College of Medicine and Hahnemann University Hospital welcome George Mychaskiw, DO, to both institutions as ... Cherry Hill Courier Post "Laughter is the bet medicine." - 06 Jan 2010 As the old saying goes, "Laughter is the best medicine," for the Soldiers of wars past and present, a little humor goes a long way. War On Terror News Why laughter in Smile Or Die isn't the best medicine - 06 Jan 2010 US political activist Barbara Ehrenreich has been the scourge of reigning orthodoxies since the 1970s, and has written scathing assessments of Reagan, ... Metro Active fare - 06 Jan 2010 She is a manager of the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine's Healthy Café in the Medical Fitness & Wellness Center, 5401 Peach St. She said she is ... GoErie.com Health and Safety Risks of Carbon Capture and Storage - 06 Jan 2010 10 Before new coal-fired power plants are approved, the National Academy of Sciences/Institute of Medicine and the Congressional Research Service should ... Journal of American Medical Association (subscription) Drs. Ira Casson, Lewis Maharam say there's not enough evidence to link ... - 06 Jan 2010 ..."It's ridiculous and no sports medicine physician I know would agree with him," Maharam said. "It is common knowledge that repeated injuries to the head ... New York Daily News Blue Ridge Headache Center opens - 06 Jan 2010 The center is led by Dr. Morris Maizels, a physician board-certified in family medicine and headache medicine. Maizels has been practicing headache medicine ... Asheville Citizen-Times UConn's Laurencin honored at White House - 06 Jan 2010 Laurencin, vice president for health affairs at the University of Connecticut Health Center and dean of the UConn School of Medicine, is one of 22 science, ... New Britain Herald Featured Article THB UndercoverHospital Food and the Cycle of Disease - 06 Jan 2010 I knew that my Dad was in the care of expert physicians and that they were using the best emergency medicine to stabilize his condition. ... Total Health Breakthroughs Missed vaccines weaken 'herd immunity' in children - 06 Jan 2010 A study published Monday in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine found that unvaccinated children are nine times as likely as others to contract ... USA Today Going smoke-free may raise diabetes risk - Jan 5, 2010 Dr. Kevin Ferentz, a smoking cessation expert and associate professor in the department of family and community medicine at the University of Maryland ... Baltimore Sun Rush Limbaugh Loves Union Hospitals, Socialized Medicine - Jan 4, 2010 Conservatives can rejoice -- Rush Limbaugh recently left Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu hospital with a clean bill of health. ... The Business Insider Bono Takes on File Sharing, Medicine and More in New York Times Column - Jan 4, 2010 With the popularity for "best of" lists at the end of each year (or in 2009's case, decade), Bono decided to make up one of his own. ... Spinner Texas Group Wants to Legalize Marijuana as Medicine - Jan 4, 2010 Fourteen states have legalized marijuana as a medicine with a doctor's permission, and a Dallas group is pushing for Texas to be the next. ... NBC Dallas-Fort Worth Outdated medicine target of county-wide collection - Jan 4, 2010 ...“A majority of teens who abuse prescription medications secretly obtain them from medicine cabinets of friends or relatives,â€? said sheriff's spokesman Sgt. ... The Record-Courier Treating Patients When Language Is Only One of the Barriers - Jan 4, 2010 Joon Park Dr. Danielle Ofri is the author of “Medicine in Translation: Journeys With My Patients.â€? A defective heart, a child detained by ... New York Times (blog) Kansas City University of Medicine and Bioscences fires on-leave official; CFO ... - Jan 4, 2010 School spokeswoman Laurie Roberts said Monday that the board fired Doug Dalzell at its Dec. 31 meeting. She said Richard Hoffine submitted his resignation ... Bizjournals.com HL:Tigers end two-game skid as Medicine Hat beats Swift Current 4-1@ - Jan 2, 2010 ALBUQUERQUE, NM (AP) — MEDICINE HAT, Alta. -- The Medicine Hat Tigers put an end to a small two-game skid. Medicine Hat reined-in the visiting Swift Current ... USA Today The Right medicine? By Anna Dixon - Jan 5, 2010 Many of the ideas and policy proposals in the Conservative's draft health manifesto are already current government policy – patient choice of hospitals ... Public Finance Internal Medicine opens new office - Jan 4, 2010 Internal Medicine Associates (IMA) opened its new North Fort Myers office recently at Entrada Plaza, 3571 Del Prado Blvd. IMA's expanded office is about ... The News-Press Prescription discount cards to aid under/uninsured in Yellow Medicine - Jan 4, 2010 ...prescription medication discount card after Yellow Medicine County commissioners voted to approve the National Association of Counties (NACo) discount ... Granite Falls Advocate Tribune Rafes Sees Opportunities at Osteopathic Medicine School - Jan 4, 2010 The new president of the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine says in a Q&A that the Lewisburg school has plenty to brag about. ... WVNS-TV A spoonful of sugar to help Brad Pitt's medicine go down... - Jan 4, 2010 Yesterday the couple took the four eldest of their brood — Maddox, Pax, Zahara and Shiloh — to see the show on Broadway. Jolie recently said she doubted ... This is London American geneticists win Nobel medicine prize - Oct 2, 2006 Craig Mello (left) and Andrew Fire celebrate winning the Nobel medicine prize for their discovery of RNA interference. Photograph: AFP ... guardian.co.uk About 1 in 9 US kids use alternative medicine - Dec 11, 2008 By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer. ATLANTA — Just like their parents, kids are taking herbal supplements from fish oil to ginseng, a sign of just how ... FOXNews Nobel Medicine Prize row as HIV scientist is excluded - Oct 6, 2008 Three scientists who discovered the causes of the two most lethal sexually-transmitted infections, Aids and cervical cancer, have been honoured today with ... Times Online Researchers in stem cell science awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine - Oct 8, 2007 STOCKHOLM — Two Americans and a Briton on Monday shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for groundbreaking stem cell research on mice that helped ... New York Times For mild asthma, less medicine may be right - Apr 14, 2005 People with mild asthma may not need daily medicine to prevent flare-ups, as doctors now recommend. A study found that patients who take medicine only when ... msnbc.com Report on diabetes medicine hits GSK - May 22, 2007 More than £4 billion was wiped off the value of GlaxoSmithKline yesterday after researchers in the United States said that Avandia, the diabetes drug that ... Times Online Keep complementary medicine out of NHS, say leading doctors - May 23, 2006 Some of the UK's most eminent doctors have mounted a direct challenge to the integration of complementary medicine into the NHS, on the day that Prince ... guardian.co.uk New England Journal of Medicine questions Merck Vioxx study. - Dec 9, 2005 Dec. 9--In an unusual move, the New England Journal of Medicine Thursday questioned the integrity of a key study Merck & Co. has used to defend its troubled ... Free with registration - Chicago Tribune - AccessMyLibrary.com Medicine award kicks off Nobel Prize announcements - Oct 5, 2008 By KARL RITTER, AP Writer. STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Two scientists who have won acclaim for research into the growth of cancer cells could be candidates for the ... FOXNews Morals and medicine - Jan 9, 2007 A scientific breakthrough in America may offer a solution to what has appeared to be an incorrigible moral dilemma. Stem cell research is acknowledged to ... Telegraph.co.uk More From the Science & Medicine Desk - Oct 4, 2006 An Oct. 5 article on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry referred incorrectly to the enzyme that is the subject of much of laureate Roger Kornberg's research. ... Washington Post 2 Australians win Nobel Prize in medicine - Oct 3, 2005 STOCKHOLM (AP) — Australians Barry J. Marshall and Robin Warren have won the 2005 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for showing that bacterial infection ... USA Today Critical shortage of internal medicine MDs foreseen - Sep 10, 2008 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Only 23 percent of US medical students plan to practice internal medicine and just 2 percent intend to become general practitioners, ... Reuters India … than drugs for kids' coughs | Health & Medicine | Chron.com -... - Dec 5, 2007 Paul, a pediatrician who practices at Penn State Children's Hospital and teaches at the university's College of Medicine, said he began the study because he ... Houston Chronicle The US Institute of Medicine estimates more than 1.5 million Americans... - Jul 21, 2006 BEIJING, July 21(Xinhuanet) -- The US Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report Thursday on medication errors in which it conservatively estimated that ... æ–°å?Žç½‘ Many Americans turning to unconventional medicine - Dec 10, 2008 By Will Dunham. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About four in 10 US adults and one in nine children are turning to unconventional medical approaches for chronic pain ... Reuters Canada Two Australians awarded Nobel Prize in medicine - Oct 4, 2005 By Malcolm Ritter, AP | October 4, 2005. Two Australians were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine yesterday for a discovery that defied decades of medical ... Boston Globe Cold medicine risky for babies, toddlers - Jan 11, 2007 ATLANTA (AP) — More than 1500 toddlers and babies wound up in emergency rooms over a two-year period and three died because of bad reactions to cold or ... USA Today Clinton Helps Broker Deal for Medicine to Treat AIDS - Dec 1, 2006 By CELIA W. DUGGER. With the financial backing of a group of nations led by France, former President Bill Clinton announced Thursday that his foundation had ... New York Times Institute of Medicine Urges Coordination Of Cord-Blood Banks - Apr 15, 2005 The government should set up a program to link and regulate the country's cord-blood banks, which store samples of blood from the umbilical cord, ... Washington Post Autism - Genetics - Medicine and Health - New York Times - Jan 10, 2008 By BENEDICT CAREY. A rare genetic flaw that occurs spontaneously during development may sharply increase the risk that a child will develop autism, ... New York Times Doctors refuse to take bitter no-gift medicine: Drugmaker freebies... - Apr 26, 2007 Apr. 26--Whether it be Subway sandwiches for the office staff or reimbursement for continuing education, gifts showered upon doctors by drug- and medical ... Free with registration - Chicago Tribune - AccessMyLibrary.com Many Patients Quit Medicine Too Early - Sep 25, 2006 By CARLA K. JOHNSON. AP. CHICAGO -- Many patients stop taking their medicine far sooner than they should, researchers say, and that decision can be deadly ... Washington Post New Methods for Taking Cold Medicine - Oct 7, 2005 CHICAGO — Pocket-size throat sprays. Thin strips that melt in your mouth. Freezer pops. Like Mary Poppins with her spoonful of sugar, the makers of cold ... FOXNews Medicine Mix-Ups Harm Hospitalized Kids - Apr 7, 2008 CHICAGO — Medicine mix-ups, accidental overdoses and bad drug reactions harm roughly one out of 15 hospitalized children, according to the first scientific ... FOXNews Personalizing medicine: Researchers study how genes affect proper … - Jan 13, 2007 By Linda A. Johnson, AP. TRENTON, NJ — Personalized medicine, the tailored treatments that a few patients now get based on their own DNA, is finally headed ... USA Today State gets poor marks for emergency medicine - Jan 11, 2006 By Carol M. Ostrom. When it comes to the state of emergency-medicine systems around the country, there really isn't much good news. ... Seattle Times Complementary and alternative medicine: What is it? - Oct 28, 2005 When you were a child and sprained an ankle or came down with the flu, you probably visited a pediatrician to soothe your symptoms. ... cnn.com Cheap combo pills best medicine for the heart - Mar 31, 2008 CHICAGO - Two big studies offer good news to people with high blood pressure, finding that novel ways to use cheap drugs already on the market can lower ... msnbc.com Buzzing over Nobel medicine prize candidates - Oct 7, 2007 STOCKHOLM, Sweden - US scientists who discovered an enzyme that broke new ground in research on cancer and aging are among potential candidates for the ... msnbc.com Healing touch - Treating the whole patient is focus of `The New Medici... - Mar 29, 2006 A PBS documentary, "The New Medicine," airing tonight at 9 on Channel 13, will examine how ... "The New Medicine" takes viewers inside medical schools, ... Pay-Per-View - Star-Ledger - Factiva, from Dow Jones Study: Pennsylvania doctors practice defensive medicine. - Jun 1, 2005 Jun. 1--Fear of lawsuits caused doctors in Pennsylvania to order extra tests, refer more patients to specialists, and avoid complicated cases, according to ... Free with registration - Philadelphia Inquirer - AccessMyLibrary.com Traditional Tibetan medicine ï¼? Flower of the snowland - Sep 5, 2007 Tibetan medicine, an important part of the Chinese medical tradition, has been evolving for nearly 3000 years. During the third century BC, ... 央视国际 Interview: The complementary medicine detective - Apr 26, 2008 When Edzard Ernst became the UK's first professor of complementary medicine, he was attacked by both alternative therapists and conventional doctors. ... New Scientist Glaxo medicine beats older diabetes rivals - Dec 5, 2006 By Katherine Griffiths. The largest study of diabetes has concluded that patients starting out on GlaxoSmithKline's drug Avandia have a better chance of ... Telegraph.co.uk Alternative medicine use continues - Jan 12, 2005 BOSTON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- Harvard Medical School experts, analyzing the use of complementary and alternative medicine, say one in three US adults use at ... United Press International Nuclear medicine tests a go - Dec 8, 2007 There's good news for some people waiting for medical tests at Saskatoon's nuclear medicine department. By The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon)December 8, 2007 ... Canada.com Tibetan medicine and pharmacology take on a new lease of life - Apr 28, 2008 Tibetan medicine and pharmacology, with distinctive Tibetan characteristics, occupies an important position in traditional Tibetan culture, ... 央视国际 Consumers shrug off supplement studies - Alternative medicine- msnbc.... - Feb 28, 2006 Barrie Cassileth, an alternative medicine researcher at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, said some products, including echinacea and St. ... msnbc.com An infectious discovery; The Nobel in medicine honors a paradigm... - Oct 8, 2005 In the years since [BARRY MARSHALL]'s and [J. Robin Warren]'s debut scientific papers were published, researchers have proved that infections cause cervical ... Pay-Per-View - Los Angeles Times - ProQuest Archiver … babies' hearts ignites fight | Health & Medicine | Chron.com -... - Aug 13, 2008 A detailed description of the transplants in Thursday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine immediately ignited an intense debate about whether the ... Houston Chronicle Medicine is extending lives, but not for diabetic women - Jun 18, 2007 By Anita Manning, USA TODAY. Advances in medical care over the past three decades have reduced heart disease and extended lives, but not for women with ... USA Today Medical schools embracing the healing arts - Alternative medicine-... - Jun 6, 2005 Alternative medicine programs are finding their way into mainstream institutions not because there's proof the therapies work, Barrett said, ... msnbc.com Suggestion to abolish traditional medicine lambasted - Oct 11, 2006 BEIJING, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- China's Health Ministry spokesman lambasted a netizens's controversial idea that traditional Chinese medicine should be taken ... 央视国际 Insurance gap leads some elderly to forgo medicine - Aug 22, 2008 By m AP, From the Associated Press|August 22, 2008. WASHINGTON -- Many people in Medicare with diabetes, high blood pressure and other chronic conditions ... Los Angeles Times Bad Medicine? - Study: Prescription Drug-Related Deaths Spike - Sep 11, 2007 The American medicine cabinet may be a danger zone. The number of deaths, disabilities and serious adverse medical events linked to prescription drugs ... $2.95 - Newsweek - NewsBank Sichuan becomes largest traditional medicine base - Sep 26, 2005 CHENGDU, Sept. 26 (Xinhuanet) -- With a huge annual output accounting for one third of China's total volume of traditional medicine, Sichuan Province has ... æ–°å?Žç½‘ Pfizer takes its medicine after cholesterol disaster - Dec 5, 2006 By Stephen Foley in New York. On Thursday, it was "The Most Important New Development in Years". Two days later, it was history. ... Independent … Studies in the New England Journal of Medicine Show Malaria... - Dec 8, 2008 Results published online today in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that the world's most clinically advanced malaria vaccine candidate provides ... AllAfrica.com Alternative medicine degrees 'anti-scientific' - Mar 22, 2007 By Roger Highfield, Science Editor. A leading pharmacologist today condemns science degree courses in alternative and complementary medicine as pseudo ... Telegraph.co.uk How do you want your cold medicine? - Oct 10, 2005 CHICAGO - Pocket-size throat sprays. Thin strips that melt in your mouth. Freezer pops. Like Mary Poppins with her spoonful of sugar, the makers of cold ... msnbc.com Personalized medicine: Tailoring treatment to your genetic profile - Jun 30, 2006 In medicine, one size doesn't fit all. Two people who take the same cancer medication, for instance, may have very different responses. One may have severe, ... cnn.com Yao's Fracture: Will Chinese Medicine Help? - Apr 7, 2008 By DAN CHILDS. The decision of NBA superstar Yao Ming to head to China to seek traditional Chinese medical treatment for his stress fracture has orthopedic ... ABC News Chinese medicine publicity campaign launches in HK - Nov 26, 2007 Educational and publicity programmes have already been launched in Hong Kong from November 25 to December 31 to enhance public understanding of Chinese ... 央视国际 Medical profession undergoes major changes as women take over. - Jan 12, 2005 But experts also say the feminization of medicine is helping to lower physician ... Many women go into medicine because they feel rewarded helping people, ... Free with registration - Chicago Tribune - AccessMyLibrary.com HEALTH MEDICINE Two new vaccines can protect against rotavirus . - Jan 5, 2006 ...studies, Merck, Co. and (tlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, did not in crease cases of the disorder. The studies, each including about 60000 children, ... St. Petersburg Times - Google News Archive China drug agency recalls hemorrhoid medicine over liver damage fears - Nov 12, 2008 BEIJING, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- China's drug regulator on Wednesday ordered the withdrawal of a hemorrhoid medicine over concern it might cause liver problems. ... æ–°å?Žç½‘ Insurance gap leads some elderly to forgo medicine - Aug 21, 2008 By KEVIN FREKING, AP Writer. Many people in Medicare with diabetes, high blood pressure and other chronic conditions stop taking their medicine when faced ... FOXNews Millions fail to use medicine correctly - Jul 31, 2007 By Lauran Neergaard, AP | July 31, 2007. WASHINGTON -- Consider it the other drug problem: Millions of people do not take their medicine correctly -- or ... Boston Globe Report details US cough, cold medicine abuse - Jan 10, 2008 By Will Dunham. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - About 3.1 million Americans ages 12 to 25 -- about 5 percent of that age group -- have at some time used an ... Reuters India Robert Petersdorf, 80, Major Force in US Medicine, Dies - Oct 6, 2006 By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN. Dr. Robert G. Petersdorf, an internationally known infectious diseases expert and educator who was also one of the most powerful ... New York Times WHO head backs role of traditional medicine in primary health care - Nov 7, 2008 BEIJING, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- The role of traditional medicine in primary health care should be highlighted, Margaret Chan, director-general of the World ... æ–°å?Žç½‘ John G. McAfee; Longtime Nuclear Medicine Specialist - Aug 29, 2008 By Patricia Sullivan. John G. McAfee, 82, a nuclear medicine specialist whose work led to advances in blood cell labeling and other ways to understand ... Washington Post Alternative medicine prescribed a bitter pill - Aug 27, 2005 By Jeremy Lovell in London. The world may be beating a path to the doors of homeopathic practitioners as an alternative to conventional medicines, ... Sydney Morning Herald BOOK REVIEWED-Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial - Jun 12, 2008 ...by Simon Singh & Edzard Ernst. The international market for alternative therapies is estimated at US$40 billion. Because so many people use alternative ... Nature.com Karadzic practised alternative medicine as he eluded police in... - Jul 22, 2008 This undated photo released by Belgrade's Healthy Life magazine on Tuesday shows Radovan Karadzic with glasses, long white hair and a beard. ... CBC.ca Stroke - Medicine and Health - List of Lost Chances for Survival... - May 28, 2007 Meredith Roberts, an occupational therapist, works on balance with Michael Collins, who suffered a stroke, at the Washington Hospital Center. By GINA KOLATA ... New York Times Chinese menus, medicine threatening wildlife - Nov 11, 2008 By Emma Graham-Harrison. BEIJING, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Wild animals are climbing back onto Chinese plates after the deadly SARS virus made some diners wary, ... Reuters Lethal medicine maker lacked license, China says - May 9, 2007 By Jake Hooker. BEIJING — China's drug regulation agency has confirmed that the company linked to counterfeit medicine that caused at least 100 deaths in ... New York Times Traditional medicine for Yao - Apr 5, 2008 Houston Rockets centre Yao Ming is back in China to consult with traditional medicine practitioners over his NBA season-ending foot injury. ... Pay-Per-View - The Record - ProQuest Archiver Official jailed over China quake medicine theft - Sep 23, 2008 State media says a hospital official from China's Sichuan province was sentenced to seven years jail for stealing medicine intended for survivors of last ... FOXNews Hospitals cut medicine tube infections in study - Dec 27, 2006 By Gene Emery. BOSTON (Reuters) - Hospitals in Michigan nearly eliminated often-deadly infections involving tubes that deliver fluids and medicine to ... Reuters Critics Say 'My Free Medicine' Comes at a Price - Jun 6, 2006 By ELISABETH LEAMY. As if the 45 million Americans without health insurance don't have enough trouble, many of them may be prime targets for what some ... ABC News Poll: US Split on Socialized Medicine - Feb 14, 2008 By Miranda Hitti. Feb. 14, 2008 -- A new poll shows that US voters are divided on the issue of socialized medicine, which is a government-run health care ... WebMD … health minister calls for more respect to traditional Chinese... - Oct 17, 2007 Chen's made the remarks amid continuing debate about the value and efficacy of medicine practices of TCM which go back millennia and are rooted deeply in ... æ–°å?Žç½‘ … of windpipe grown from stem cells heralds new era in medicine - Nov 19, 2008 ...of a human windpipe, constructed partly from stem cells, is an astonishing milestone – one that could indeed mark the start of a new era in medicine. ... Telegraph.co.uk A Tibetan medicine human body point map. (Xinhua Photo) - Dec 9, 2006 BEIJING, Dec. 9 -- China will accelerate the development of traditional minority medicine, a top official with the Ministry of Health said yesterday. ... æ–°å?Žç½‘ Milosevic took wrong medicine to secure way out of UN court says … - Mar 13, 2006 THE HAGUE (AFX) - Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic deliberately took a drug that neutralised the effects of his heart medicine, an expert who ... Forbes Novartis Medicine Benefits Osteoporosis Patients, Study Finds - May 2, 2007 By Nicole Ostrow. May 2 (Bloomberg) -- A Novartis AG drug reduced fractures in women with osteoporosis when given once a year, researchers said, ... Bloomberg Online Ayurvedic Medicine May Be Unsafe - Aug 26, 2008 Approximately one-fifth of Ayurvedic medicines sold online to Americans contain metals, including lead, according to a new study by Boston University ... CBS News Trick or treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial by Simon Singh and ... - Apr 20, 2008 ...“For 2400 years,â€? wrote the historian of medicine David Wootton, “patients believed doctors were doing them good; for 2300 years they were wrong. ... Times Online Geriatrics Lags in Age of High-Tech Medicine - Oct 18, 2006 By JANE GROSS. Margaret Mary Foley, 97, just wasn't herself. Overnight, she stopped eating, went from mildly confused to disoriented, and was unable to ... New York Times Dutch want cannabis registered as regular medicine - Nov 7, 2007 AMSTERDAM, Nov 7 (Reuters) - The Dutch government said on Wednesday it wants to promote the development of cannabis-based medicine and will extend the ... Reuters Could Modern Medicine Have Saved Lincoln? - May 21, 2007 By David Brown. If Ford's Theatre had been in Baltimore, if the patient had been taken to the state Shock Trauma Center and if 1865 were 2007 . ... Washington Post US says UCB cough medicine overdose can kill - Mar 11, 2008 WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - US health officials warned parents and doctors about Tussionex, the prescription cough medicine, saying it may have fatal ... Reuters Siphoning bear bile for medicine is painless, says China - Jan 13, 2006 IT IS a scene replicated in scores of Chinese farms: hundreds of Asian black bears crowded into rows of cages with hardly enough space in which to roll over ... Times Online Paulson prescribes medicine for Wall Street - Mar 13, 2008 By Greg Robb, MarketWatch. WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Thursday prescribed some new medicine for Wall Street to try to ... MarketWatch Military medicine's toxic silence; Walter Reed, Abu Ghraib and other ... - Mar 11, 2007 When these stories and others broke, many in military medicine were shocked ... The culture of armed forces medicine has long encouraged open discussion of ... Pay-Per-View - Los Angeles Times - ProQuest Archiver Int'l conference opens in Macao to discuss Chinese Medicine - Apr 1, 2005 MACAO, April 1 (Xinhuanet) -- An international conference on Chinese medicine was opened Friday in China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR), ... æ–°å?Žç½‘ Children - Cough - Treatment - Honey - Medicine and Health - New York... - Dec 11, 2007 By NICHOLAS BAKALAR. A spoonful of honey might quiet a child's cough more effectively and safely than the most common over-the-counter cough medicine. ... New York Times Child medicine additive concern - Mar 10, 2007 Medicines for babies and young children frequently contain additives banned from foods and drinks aimed at under-threes, research shows. ... BBC News Acupuncture 'provides twice the pain relief of standard medicine' - Sep 25, 2007 By SIMON CABLE. Acupuncture is twice as effective at reducing lower back pain than conventional medicines, according to researchers. ... Daily Mail Dolls promote Chinese herbal medicine - Oct 9, 2008 BEIJING, Oct. 9 -- Chinese medicine, herbal medicine, protected Chinese people through ages before the introduction of Western medicines to China. ... æ–°å?Žç½‘ Alternative medicine access call - Aug 16, 2005 Everyone should have access to alternative medicine on the NHS, a leading patients' group says. The Patients Association has called for all GPs to provide ... BBC News FDA experts do not support use of cold medicine in kids - Oct. 19,... - Oct 19, 2007 FDA experts do not support use of cold medicine in kids under 6; drugmakers' bottom line unlikely to feel pain if drugs get nixed. ... CNNMoney.com NM center to blend Eastern, Western medicine - Aug 20, 2008 By Sue Major Holmes, AP. ALBUQUERQUE — Many academic health centers offer programs that include traditional Chinese treatments or Ayurvedic medicine from ... USA Today Complementary medicine study hit by credibility row - Oct 6, 2005 A report commissioned by the Prince of Wales calling for more complementary therapies to be provided on the NHS has been hit by a row over its credibility. ... guardian.co.uk China legalizes apprenticeships for traditional Chinese medicine - Nov 7, 2007 BEIJING, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- China's traditional medicine authorities on Wednesday legalized apprenticeships for training doctors as an alternative to ... æ–°å?Žç½‘ 94 deaths in Panama from tainted medicine - Jul 5, 2007 PANAMA CITY - A top Panamanian prosecutor said tests show at least 94 people have died from taking medicine contaminated with diethylene glycol since July ... msnbc.com Some child cough medicine overdoses linked to abuse - Dec 19, 2008 Some children in the US who died after taking over-the-counter cough medicines may have been given the medication to sedate them, say experts who reviewed ... CBC.ca |
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