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Personal Songs Offer Musical Medicine to Sick Kids
Megan Ford, whose stubborn leukemia is blasted every Friday with chemotherapy, jumped at the chance to receive a song made especially for her.
The organization...
New Billboard Promotes Most Effective Medicine: Hugging
During this cold and flu season, The Joy Team of Vancouver, Washington, has erected a billboard in downtown Portland reminding everyone of that ancient...
Ex-Pharmacy Guys Make Medicine Available No Matter Your Finances
Imagine the frustration you'd feel if you were diagnosed with a serious illness requiring a lot of treatment and even though you were covered...
Pizza Shop Delivers Medicines During Cold Snap
With bitter cold temperatures keeping people indoors, a pizza shop owner in Ligonier, Pennsylvania offered to make deliveries of prescriptions and other essentials to...
Vital Medicine Rides Coke’s Distribution Network Into Remote African Villages
Simon Berry is piggybacking on Coca-Cola’s distribution system to bring life-saving medicine to the places that need it most. You can buy a Coke...
Study Finds Beer Ingredient Could Help Brew New Medicine
A recent discovery by scientists at the University of Washington means that a main beer ingredient – hops – could be used to treat...
Giant of Medicine Dies at 93: Tribute to a Transplant Pioneer
Dr. Joseph E. Murray, the Nobel laureate who conducted the world’s first successful organ transplant, died Monday at the Boston hospital where the pioneering...
Great Natural Remedies: 16 Herbs for Your Medicine Cabinet
Scientific studies come and go. But there is evidence that accumulates slowly over many years that support often ancient claims that herbs can provide...
6 Big HealthTech Ideas That Will Change Medicine In 2012
“In the future we might not prescribe drugs all the time, we might prescribe apps,” said executive director of FutureMed Dr. Daniel Kraft. In...
US Founding Fathers Passed Socialized Medicine With Health Insurance Mandate in 1798
A number of US states are challenging the new health care law on Constitutional grounds. But, a very interesting Forbes article points out that...
Unplugging From Your Medicine Cabinet: Respecting the Body’s Intelligence
It may be time to go on a special type of vacation: a drug vacation.* A drug vacation is a time in which you...
Good News from the UN: Prolonging the Life of Medicines
On October 24, 1972, the UN General Assembly instituted World Development Information Day, to draw people's attention to development problems and the continuous need...
U.S. Military Using Alternative Medicine, Yoga
Yoga is one of the newest ‘secret weapons’ in the US Armed Forces for soldiers suffering from Post-traumatic Stress Disorder at Walter Reed...
Unconventional, Alternative Medicine Use on the Rise
About four in 10 U.S. adults and one in nine children are turning to unconventional medical approaches for chronic pain and other health problems,...
Spider Silk and Gore-tex Re-fashioning Medicine
At Tufts University, Massachusetts scientists are pioneering a method of manipulating spider silk to genetically engineer new bone tissue, thus allowing them -- in...
Honey Better Than Cough Medicine For Soothing Kids’ Coughs
Honey is a more effective cough remedy for children than many over-the-counter medications, according to a recent study -- especially for nighttime relief. Thanks...
The Importance of Magnets in Modern Medicine
Magnets have been thought to have healing properties since ancient times. Today, magnets are showing promise in treating everything from bone fractures to...
Chinese Medicine Allowed for Athletes at Olympics
Athletes will be able to use traditional Chinese medicines at next year's Olympics without risking positive dope tests if they take basic precautions, a...
Alternative Medicine Saves Foot from Amputation
A South African newspaper reports doctors told diabetic Terry Whitfield that his gangrene-ravaged foot would need to be amputated. Instead he sought the help...
New EU Rules Strengthen Safety of Kids’ Medicine
Currently, more than 50 percent of medicines used to treat children in Europe have not been specifically tested on them or authorised for...