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Search results for "modern medicine" ...
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Selling the Fountain of Youth
The book takes readers inside the modern anti-aging industry, where doctors prescribe human growth hormone (HGH), "bio-identical" estrogen and progesterone, and an infinite medicine chest of herbal supplements such as resveratrol and acai.
Tags: anti-aging; supplements; drugs
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Scientology: A Question of Faith
"The report is an hour-long investigation into the Church of Scientology's vehement opposition to the practice of psychiatry, and how that many have contributed to the brutal murder of Elli Perkings..." Perkings was a Scientologist whose son, Jeremey, suffered acute schizophrenia. He went without any formal psychiatric treatment. He stabbed his mother to death because he believed she was evil.
Tags: psychiatric; faith; Scientology; schizophrenia; murder; family; mental illness; modern medicine; religion
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Twisted System: A Phoenix family stumbles through the tangled bureaucracy of modern medical care.
This article talks about a family's struggle with an HMO to get coverage to correct their daughter's bent spine, caused by scoliosis. The article details the family's battle, and explains their problems with health care coverage. The health care insurer the family's with is called PacificCare.
Tags: Health Care; HMO; Health Maintenance Organization; PacificCare; coverage; medical insurance; medicine; doctors; money; hospitals; scoliosis
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Unlocking the Green Pharmacy
"Initially they call it absurd. Then the call it obvious." The article seeks to show a missing concilience between modern Western medicine and "plant medicine." The article says that of the 5,000 prescription drugs approved by the FDA since the 1960's, "fewer than a dozen are based on plants or the chemical formulas derived from substances found in plants." The author blames the complexity of plants (and plant genomes) for science overlooking them. "If we are to embrace the complexity of plants while maintaining the precision and the virtues of modern science, we need a new conceptual framework and a new approach."
Tags: plant medicine; genome; U.S. Food and Drug Administration; pharmacopeia; herbs; herbal therapy
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After the fall -- The challenges of major head injury
Whitt recounts the stories of two survivors of major head injuries, her own father being one of them. While modern medicine has made it possible for victims to survive, society has not yet developed an adequate system to provide for long-term care.
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The doctor is out
Your child may need surgery. You are drowning in information. But in the brave new world of modern medicine, you are on your own. In this world, the line between patient and physician is gone. The Washington Post Magazine examines this growing trend.
Tags: Internet HMO