After all, of the fifteen highest-paid professions in the U.S., all but two are in medicine or dentistry.
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There are two types of medicine: the stuff that works, and everything else.
But ever restless, Mazzei left for Smyrna, Turkey, where he continued the practice of medicine for two and a half years.
Supporters of alternative medicine have two additional forces in their favour.
The Committee noted that a high proportion of patients stopped taking the medicine within two years, even in the restricted group of patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia, mainly due to side effects such as flu-like symptoms, injections site reactions and liver toxicity.
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The Committee noted that a high proportion of patients stopped taking the medicine within two years, even in the restricted group of patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia, mainly due to side effects such as flu-like symptoms, injections site reactions and liver toxicity.
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Obesity drug developer Vivus posted results from a 2-year study of its combination weight loss pill Qnexa this morning, showing maintenance of an 11.4% and 10.4% weight loss for patients taking two doses of the medicine, compared to 2.5% for patients on placebo.
Pfizer is also stopping two midstage studies of the same medicine, also in lung cancer.
The New England Journal of Medicine published a study two weeks ago showing, amazingly, that eating chocolate might make you smarter.
In a commentary published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, Sedrakyan and two co-authors pointed out those studies must run at least eight years to return the information FDA is seeking.
This initiative comes almost two months after the Institute of Medicine (IOM) embarked on a large scale study of sports related concussions, especially those in younger people beginning in grade school through adolescence into early adulthood.
Until recently, critics were saying that, if she has two degrees (in economics and medicine), can look back at four years spent in Silicon Valley and boast such a large brood, it was only because she came from a family rich enough to pay for generous child care.
Two papers published in the journal PLoS Medicine followed the health outcomes of pregnant women and their babies after a previous C-section.
But in the current issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, Thai doctors report two cases of apparent human-to human transmission of the bird flu.
The American Society for Reproductive Medicine recommends no more than two embryos for women under 35 years old and no more than five for women over 40.
Pfizer, Merck and Novartis have all said they intend to make a business of selling copycats of biotech drugs, protein medicines that have only been a force in medicine for a little over two decades.
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The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded today to two researchers who discovered a new kind of gene, upending dogma about how biology works and leading to a new technology that has been embraced by drug companies and has led to the formation of two publicly traded biotech firms.
Andreessen cited two potential uses of Glass: first for medicine: surgeons and paramedics could use Glass to instantly get information while working.
The American College of Cardiology panel and two editorials in The New England Journal of Medicine recommended sidelining use of Zetia, a kind of cholesterol drug that works differently from statins, and Vytorin, a combo pill of Zetia and the statin Zocor.
While the new commission may end up helping the private sector by raising public confidence in its quality, Justin Keen, a health policy analyst at the King's Fund, worries that having separate quality controls for public and private medicine reinforces rather than reduces the two-tier nature of British health care.
But a medicine for Crohn's disease and two lung cancer drugs, developed separately with Eli Lilly and Novartis, flamed out.
But two studies released yesterday in the Annals of Internal Medicine found no evidence that the off-label use of the drug saves lives.
While Western medicine generally treats the same illness the same way, Asian medicine operates on the principle that no two people are alike.
Two recently published articles in the Archives of Internal Medicine highlight the emerging role for electronic and internet technologies for weight loss described above.
"I think the ACS folks got it right, " said Dr. Michael Barry, who reviewed the two major studies for the New England Journal of Medicine last March.
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Two months ago, The New England Journal of Medicine published an article that charged that the top-selling diabetes drug in the world elevated the risk of heart attacks.
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