Mark Schlesinger, head of anesthesiology at Hackensack University Medical Center, says he definitely sees himself using the drug, but he says it may take a while for the medicine to find its place in the marketplace.
Some Indian analysts have also suggested that the United States take a dose of its own medicine in accepting international observers in future elections.
There may come a moment when simply a society refuses to take medicine administered from outside.
He needs to lie down in a darkened room and take his medicine.
Some DPC providers such as WhiteGlove Health and Organic Medicine Now take it a step further and make house calls that harken back to the days of your family doctor stopping by your house just a few decades ago.
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If you take me properly I can be a good medicine.
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Take Ioannis Solos, a young practitioner of traditional medicine from the Greek town of Agrinion who lives in Beijing.
We are not there yet but the question may have to be faced: what happens if a eurozone country essentially refuses to take the medicine?
Seroxat and the other SSRI antidepressants (including Prozac, Lustral and Ciprimil) may provoke violence in a small number of people who take them, according to a paper published today on the Public Library of Science Medicine website.
We welcome the findings of this study, which could take us a step closer towards an era of more personalised medicine.
Orszag thinks that economics and medicine are both beginning to take into account a factor that had been left out of scientific models for years: human behavior.
IMF-inspired medicine may work, but the patient will take a beating on the way.
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That they have to take medicine when they eat their meals wasn't a big deal.
And features that encourage patients to take their medicine and ensure it is working well should make a pill more valuable to insurers and national health systems, and thus justify higher prices.
It's called the Pleo Reborn (or "RB" for short) and the primary features are these: a lithium-polymer battery good for two hours of continuous use, a much tougher hide, and an RFID "sense of smell" that lets it interact with a variety of optional accessories to "eat, " take medicine for virtual injuries and learn new tricks as you go.
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All the time watching the company having to take the medicine handed to it by the markets and the analysts for a decision taken years before.
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"I think most physicians think it is unethical to take a drug like that and market it with only one cholesterol-lowering medicine, " says Richard Stein, a cardiologist at Beth Israel Medical Center.
However, women need to focus on their chances of developing breast cancer when making a decision to take tamoxifen, said Dr. Rowan Chlebowski, professor of medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.
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Vitality, an American firm, has come up with a cap for pill bottles that telephones hapless patients if they fail to take their medicine on time.
"Suppose the best medicine available in the U.S. could cure a man in three days, while some other mainland-produced medicine would take four days, " he says.
How do the social workers, the hospital staff, the police, the teachers, the railway workers, the prison and immigration officials -- and yes, the bankers and MPs -- feel about the hypocrisy of a press that so readily dishes out bitter medicine but can never, ever take it?
The patent on a new drug starts running out the second the medicine is invented, and it can take many, many years to get these big clinical trials done.
The other 90% of the population who take the medicine are able to break codeine down in their cells to make morphine and hence receive a significant amount of pain relief.
"It's an interesting concept and it certainly provides a potential value for timing and alerting people to take a break, " David Rempel, Director of the Ergonomics Program at UC Berkeley and Professor of Medicine at UCSF, told Wired.
Such letters are the final step before a medicine hits the market, and usually spell out exactly what steps a company needs to take in order to get final approval.
Strictly defined, Private Health isn't part of the growing phenomenon known as concierge medicine, where doctors charge a retainer for more face-time and personal attention, and often take their practices off the commercial and government payment grid.
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