Counterfeit medicine is a significant problem in developing countries, causing more than 700, 000 deaths each year.
Changing the business model for primary care medicine is a huge opportunity for healthcare cost savings.
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Behind this renewed interest in traditional medicine is a palpable sense of pride in reviving one's heritage.
Medicine is a complex business in America, and doctors are not the only, or indeed the most important, players.
The BBC's Orla Guerin in Islamabad says the sale of sub-standard and expired medicine is a common problem in Pakistan.
In many parts of the world, counterfeit medicine is a big problem and consumers simply have to trust the vendor.
The American system of medicine is a model of skill and innovation, with a pace of discovery that is adding good years to our lives.
The future of medicine is a vast, opening playing field.
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That's because good medicine is a team sport.
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Also known as duloxetine, the new medicine is a follow-up to Prozac that works by keeping the brain from reabsorbing serotonin, as most antidepressants do, but also by targeting the reuptake of norepinephrine, which drugs like Prozac ignore.
As doctors get better and better at treating heart disease, it is getting much more difficult to tell if a new heart medicine is having a real benefit.
Dr. Adalja, a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, is a quadruple board-certified physician.
Stanford School of Medicine is piloting a project to provide doctors with housecleaning and in-home dinner delivery.
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Antiaging medicine "is a threat to the status quo, " says Ronald Klatz, who heads the Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine.
As much as anything else, "Wild Medicine" is a way for the New York Botanical Garden to honor its roots.
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We know that medicine is not a commodity that lends itself to consumer shopping in the way a television set might.
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Simply because medicine is mostly a service it will become more expensive over time as compared to anything we can manufacture.
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Kozarsky teaches medicine and infectious diseases at Emory University School of Medicine and is a consultant for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on traveler's health.
So there is a place for alternative medicine, but homeopathy is just a fraud.
If you prefer to have your doctor treat the warts, there are several options: Your doctor can apply a medicine, which is sometimes a stronger version of what you can apply at home.
This is not a medicine that is likely to be used in patients with garden variety high cholesterol, or even those with less serious versions of the genetic disease FH.
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"I think this is reassuring, " says Christie Ballantyne , a cardiologist at the Baylor College of Medicine who is heading up a Crestor clinical trial for AstraZeneca.
Baicalein is used in traditional Chinese medicine and biochanin A is found in peanuts, chickpeas and other legumes.
One such medicine is Xyrem, a narcolepsy drug sold by tiny Orphan Medical (nasdaq: ORPH - news - people ).
Every time an ordinary sick person get carded for buying cold medicine, she is a victim of this second kind of policy error.
One of the most commonly cited areas of nanotechnology improvements is medicine, a broad area that encompasses the development of new medical equipment and appliances as well as the delivery of more effective, targeted health care.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is crowing about a California Appeals Court decision that maybe, possibly might require every restaurant in the Golden State to warn customers that eating grilled chicken could kill them.
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In the most restrictive cases, only certain registered doctors are allowed to prescribe a medicine, or a drug is only distributed by a limited number of pharmacies.
The problem for regulators, though, is that interactions between drug company sales representatives and doctors occur behind closed doors--and just because a doctor is prescribing a medicine for an unapproved use doesn't mean the drug firm suggested that he do so.
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