But that experience and prior ones leave me skeptical of the defensive way medicine is practiced.
Aventis had to run a gigantic, 24, 000-patient safety trial to prove the medicine is safe.
When a new medicine is ready to enter clinical trials, it would be handled by Mackay.
An essential element to moving forward in the field of personalized medicine is cloud computing technology.
Medicine is littered with promised cures that fell back to earth, right into the garbage heap.
With each passing year, the technology necessary for this revolution in medicine is growing less expensive.
Medicine is big business, and it is sucking up a rapidly growing portion of the economy.
If we got this wrong, we may find that the medicine is worse than the disease.
Counterfeit medicine is a significant problem in developing countries, causing more than 700, 000 deaths each year.
Researchers are working on an AIDS vaccine, but such a medicine is still years away.
More high tech medicine is often not the best place to spend scarce money.
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Changing the business model for primary care medicine is a huge opportunity for healthcare cost savings.
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This kind of medicine is more about persistence, consistency, and organization rather than individual brilliance.
If the medicine is fairly safe and might be effective, why not offer it to patients?
One problem: The medicine is complex and expensive to make (it's grown in vats of yeast).
Collaboration is the hallmark of so many innovative fields, and medicine is no exception.
Intuitive medicine is the realm of highly trained specialists handling difficult diagnoses and treatment.
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And yet - in the eyes of many - the same medicine is being repeated.
First of all, integrative medicine is trying to restore the medicine on health and healing.
Integrative medicine is seeing what's out there that we might bring into the mainstream.
Alternative medicine is all those ideas and practices that are not taught in conventional medical schools.
But just because the medicine is not real does not mean it doesn't work.
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GM's managers, as well as its investors, to understand that strong medicine is called for.
"My clinical experience suggests the medicine is safe to be taken on a long-term basis, " says Scharf.
That one individual was so significant in this change in medicine is truly an achievement worth spreading.
Behind this renewed interest in traditional medicine is a palpable sense of pride in reviving one's heritage.
Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.
Very little in medicine is black and white, and we have to weigh probabilities when making decisions.
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Note that this has nothing at all to do with how medicine is organised or paid for.
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