News tagged with alternative med
$2.5B spent, no alternative med cures
(AP) -- Ten years ago the government set out to test herbal and other alternative health remedies to find the ones that work. After spending $2.5 billion, the disappointing answer seems to be that almost ...
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Jun 10, 2009 |
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More white Americans turn to lower-cost alternative meds
The use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies experienced a significant growth in the United States in the last decade, and a new analysis finds that CAM use becomes more likely when access ...
Feb 01, 2011 |
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OTC Constipation Treatment Beats Prescription Med in Review
When ordinary over-the-counter laxatives fail to work, doctors turn to other medications to treat people with constipation. Now, a new review of existing research finds that one common drug treatment is better than another ...
Jul 07, 2010 |
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Commentary suggests alternatives to routine use of OTC cold/cough meds in children
Despite their widespread use by parents and caregivers, over-the-counter (OTC) cold and cough medicines have carried a warning by the FDA since 2008, and still have the potential to cause serious adverse events in infants ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 01, 2010 |
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FDA cracking down on fat-melting injections
(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on fat-melting injections used in spas across the U.S., saying the drugs have not been proven safe or effective.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Apr 07, 2010 |
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Med students say conventional medicine would benefit by integrating alternative therapies
In the largest national survey of its kind, researchers from UCLA and UC San Diego measured medical students' attitudes and beliefs about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and found that three-quarters of them ...
Jan 20, 2010 |
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Adverse heart effects of rofecoxib may have been identified years earlier
Clinical trial data indicated an association between the anti-inflammatory medication rofecoxib and cardiovascular risk as early as December 2000, before the product was taken off the market in September 2004, according to ...
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Nov 23, 2009 |
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Mood improves on low-fat, but not low-carb, diet plan
After one year, a low-calorie, low-fat diet appears more beneficial to dieters' mood than a low-carbohydrate plan with the same number of calories, according to a report in the November 9 issue of Archives of Internal Me ...
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Fewer emergency patients seen within recommended time frame
One in four emergency department patients in 2006 waited longer to be evaluated by a clinician than recommended at triage, an increase from one in five in 1997, according to a report in the November 9 issue of Archives of ...
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Med, nursing schools teaching alternative remedies
(AP) -- Future doctors and nurses are learning about acupuncture and herbs along with anatomy and physiology at a growing number of medical schools. It's another example of how alternative medicine has become ...
Nov 01, 2009 |
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No need for needles: Botox sponge treats intrinsic rhinitis
Injecting botulinum toxin (botox) to treat intrinsic or allergic rhinitis may be a thing of the past as researchers have now shown that sponges soaked in botox are equally effective in treating the condition. The research ...
Oct 15, 2009 |
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