Rosana Tositrakul, founder of Traditional Medicine for Self-Reliance, a Bangkok-based non-governmental organization, sees a clear future in developing ancient remedies for modern times.

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One, he thinks of his technology as acomplement to modern medicine (some self-trackers believed they can do better than the pros) and it focuses on the next stage of self-tracking: the action behind the data using analytics, pattern learning and correlation.

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Medicine has particularly well-documented cases of self-censorship as having directly contributed to major incidents.

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Writing in the Emergency Medicine Journal, the researchers said it was self-evident that the current situation was unsafe.

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Too many today chase the American myth of unlimited potential by denying biological limitations, including performance enhancing drugs in sports, searching for self-esteem with cosmetic surgery, or pushing the frontiers of reproductive medicine.

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Dr Nitschke and his colleagues are scouring the scientific literature for reports of easily obtained chemicals that have failed to make it into medicine because of their toxicity, but which might prove useful for self-destruction.

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