health - "medicine"

HOMEOPATHY is the world's second leading system of medicine for primary healthcare, according to the World health Organisation .

A natural process of aging includes a slowdown in the removal of damaged protein from cells. As a consequence, toxic material is accumulated with the residuals associated with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and other neurodegenerative diseases. Now, for the first time, scientists at the Albert Einstein College of medicine of Yeshiva University have prevented this [...]

In one of the first examinations of PSA screening in younger men, a study published by researchers at Duke medicine's Prostate Center finds that one-fifth of men under age 50 reported undergoing a prostate specific antigen (PSA) test to detect prostate cancer in the previous year, yet only one in three young black men reported ever having a PSA test in the previous year.

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Michel Lotrowska, a Brazil representative for Medecins Sans Frontieres \' Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines , said that an estimated 23,400 people in Brazil use Kaletra, making it the ... Last Modified: August 19, 2005, 7:56 pm

EcoNugenics announced that PectaSol, a natural supplement containing modified citrus pectin (MCP) made from citrus peel, provides a safe, natural antidote for lead toxicity in children. The study reported that MCP (PectaSol, EcoNugenics, www.econugenics.com) significantly decreased lead levels in children (ages 5 to 12) who suffered from severe lead poisoning. The clinical research was conducted at Children's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of medicine, Republic of China.

The American Institute for Cancer Research finds itself and its landmark expert report, Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective, caught in the middle of a furious PR battle between two conflicting interest groups. The Physician's Committee for Responsible medicine (PCRM), an anti-meat advocacy organization, is using the AICR report's conclusions to bolster its campaign to get all processed meats out of U.S. schools.

Many government efforts to legislate tobacco use have centered on places - as in, where can people puff? We have cautioned against some such measures, particularly Illinois' workplace smoking ban, because they infringe on private property rights.Nonetheless, this page has vigorously and wholeheartedly agreed with laws meant to keep cigarettes out of kids' hands, and to make the tobacco industry tell the truth about its products.Such a proposal is now floating around Capitol Hill. . . .As Harvard Medical School professor Allen Brandt writes in the most recent New England Journal of medicine, 'The regulatory status of cigarettes arguably represents one of the most paradoxical stories in American medicine. The single most dangerous legal product in U.S. consumer society has eluded virtually all federal regulation until now.'It's inexcusable to continue to give tobacco a pass.

A drug commonly used in the developing world to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child persists in the breast milk and blood of the mothers, putting them and their babies at risk for developing drug-resistant strains of the virus, according to researchers at the Stanford University School of medicine. the researchers found that the drug, nevirapine, stays in the blood and breast milk of the infected mothers for at least two weeks.

StemCells, Inc. (NASDAQ:STEM) announced that it has accepted an invitation by the California Institute of Regenerative medicine (CIRM) to present on Batten Disease at the upcoming meeting of CIRM's Independent Citizens Oversight Committee (ICOC). At the meeting, Ann Tsukamoto, Ph.D., the Company's Chief Operating Officer, and Stephen Huhn, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.P.