Category: Medicine

All Homeopathic Products Now Illegal? — A Sweet Dose of Reality

March 24, 2018

By Dr. Mercola | Mercola In a draft guidance document released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency takes aim at homeopathic remedies In a reversal of a long-standing decision to treat homeopathic remedies differently from other drugs, the FDA has now labeled virtually all of these products as “new drugs” that […]

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The hidden reason American minorities are so much more likely to have diabetes — Quartz

November 17, 2017

In 1982, in the little town of Afton, North Carolina, residents sat down in the street, blocking trucks filled with toxic soil from heading to a local dump. The predominantly black town had been chosen as a dump site for the soil, which was contaminated with polybrominated biphenyls, or PCBs. (The soil was dug out…

via The hidden reason American minorities are so much more likely to have diabetes — Quartz

A race against time

November 12, 2017

Biomedical engineering can save lives. It draws on and integrates knowledge from disciplines like engineering, computer science, biomedical sciences, and public health as well as clinical practice. This knowledge is combined to improve health—often through the design of medical devices for diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation. Most of Africa’s medical equipment is imported. “Equipment graveyards” become…

via Biomedical engineers from across Africa are collaborating to build medical devices — Quartz

More women in medical research improves findings

November 7, 2017

If we want to really understand human health, we need to get more women on medical research team. Researchers analyzed over 1.5 million papers and found that when a study has least one woman author, it’s more likely to include an analysis on gender and sex differences among research participants. The findings were published (paywall)…

via Female scientists make medicine better for all genders — Quartz