These days, he says, they aren't treating as many emergency cases, but the lull in violence hasn't translated into the basic equipment and medicine the hospital needs.
Furthermore, the setting of the Medicare fee schedule exempts most of medicine from basic rules of supply-and-demand.
That, in turn, could hinder emerging efforts to match patients with drugs that target the mutations affecting their tumors, a basic strategy of personalized medicine.
But the Cystic Fibrosis Trust said the medicine was "transformational", had a "dramatic effect" and that experts say "no other medicine addresses the basic genetic defect in cystic fibrosis".
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The National Academy of Sports Medicine certification teaches everything from basic anatomy to kinesiology to motivational techniques.
The failures of modern medicine come not in its basic approach to health and disease but in three correctable areas.
Hospitals in Iraq are in desperate need of basic medical supplies, clean water, power and medicine.
However it is precisely in these 'witchcraft' areas in which the advances of medicine have occurred, but very little has encroached into the basic physical examination.
"It's basic common sense, " said Michael Taylor, FDA deputy commissioner for foods and veterinary medicine.
The basic problem is this: What should patients and doctors do when insufficient data is collected on a new medicine?
The simple view is that medicine exists to fight death and disease, and that is, of course, its most basic task.
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