health - "medicine"

A description of what the poison plant Belladonna does in the world of medicine.

AP - Many academic health centers offer programs that include traditional Chinese treatments or Ayurvedic medicine from India. The University of New Mexico goes beyond that, says management of its new Center for Life.

Cell Therapeutics, Inc.'s (CTI) (NASDAQ and MTA: CTIC) subsidiary Systems medicine (SM) has announced that planned enrollment is complete in the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) randomized phase II clinical trial of brostallicin in patients with newly diagnosed advanced or metastatic soft tissue sarcoma who have had no prior chemotherapy. The primary endpoint of the trial is progression-free survival at six months.

Joseph Zabner and colleagues, at the University of Iowa Carver College of medicine, Iowa City, have used a fruit fly (Drosophila) model of infection to provide new insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying the virulence of the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which is a major cause of infections in individuals who are hospitalized, have burn wounds, or have cystic fibrosis. P.