As a medical student in North Korea, Lee Gwang-jin said he treated his fevers and other minor ailments with traditional herbal medicine. But bad illness could mean trouble because hospitals in his rural hometown lacked the ...
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Chinese medicine based on combinations of typically five to ten plants has a long tradition of use against rheumatoid arthritis, but few clinical trials have tested its potential. A review in the Journal of Internal Medicine ...
Jul 21, 2022
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Radiation is the main source of biological stress in the low Earth orbit (LEO), which is the region encompassed by the Earth's magnetosphere where all manned missions currently occur. In the upcoming missions to the moon ...
Jun 30, 2022
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A new study, led by experts at the University of Nottingham, has found that several traditional medicines commonly used in South Asia, are effective in maintaining blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes.
Jun 8, 2022
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Everybody knows that consuming too much salt is bad for your health. But nobody ever mentions the potential impact of the other condiment in the cruet set: black pepper. Does it have an effect on your health?
Apr 8, 2022
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Today, the Center for Food As Medicine (famcenter.org) and the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center (nycfoodpolicy.org) released its groundbreaking, 335 page (with more than 2500 citations), first ever, academic narrative ...
Mar 30, 2022
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Treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), a group of cancers that originate in the nose and throat, is made complicated by their unique position. Radiation therapy is often the main curative treatment for NPC. However, ...
Feb 25, 2022
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Rooted in ancient knowledge and principles, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been used to treat many diseases, sparking the interest of pharmaceutical researchers. TCM formulas are quite complex, requiring multiple ...
Feb 18, 2022
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As Asia Pacific emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, the region plans to fall back on traditional and complementary medicine to enhance health care delivery with support from the WHO.
Nov 15, 2021
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Plants can hurt us (we see you, poison oak), but they can also heal. Many of modern medicine's powerful drugs, like aspirin, trace their roots back to leaves, bark and flowers.
May 13, 2021
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