Illness, Injury & Treatments

Magazine articles on illnesses, injuries, currently available treatments, drugs, and homeopathy.

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Managed Care June 2007	Drug Interactions Plague Elderly Cancer Patients Adverse drug reaction increases six-fold from the second decade to the eighth decade of life, from 10 adverse events per 10,000 persons to 60 per 10,000. This is especially important to oncology patients.
DailyCandy June 22, 2007	The Science of Sleep If you have trouble falling asleep, try Bedtime Beats, a classical music CD designed to help you snooze.
Popular Mechanics July 2007 Erik Sofge	DARPA's Better Bionic Arm: Our Most Limb-Like Prosthetic In a first for prosthetics, a new mechanical arm gives its user the sense of touch.
Science News June 16, 2007 Janet Raloff	Concerns Over Genistein, Part I -- the Heart of the Issue One of soy's ostensibly beneficial constituents may aggravate cardiovascular disease, at least in older women.
Chemistry World June 13, 2007 James Mitchell Crow	Renewed Therapeutic Promise for Arthritis Patients Three new treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, the most common chronic inflammatory joint disease in the industrialized world, offer hope to patients where existing drugs have failed.
Science News June 9, 2007 Janet Raloff	Super-Size Mice--Fast Food Hurts Rodents When rodents eat the equivalent of a fast-food diet, they develop health problems similar to those seen in the movie Super Size Me.
Chemistry World June 8, 2007 Victoria Gill	A Good Year for Mouth Wash Researchers have provided another excuse for wine lovers to extol the virtues of their indulgence. A team at the University of Pavia have shown that both red and white wine can kill the bacteria that cause tooth decay.
AskMen.com Ryan Murphy	Magic Man Potions Simple home remedies that will have any man feeling -- and looking -- better than ever.
Health June 2007 Laurel Naversen Geraghty	Don't Worry so Much About Scary Diseases Want to put your fears in their place? Here's help: We compared women's risks of developing certain illnesses this year to the odds of some quirky scenarios -- and found plenty of good news.
Health June 2007 Melanie Haiken	The Best New Pain Cures?... For Women New research shows that pain can often be prevented if women use the right treatment. Here's what you should know.
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