Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Post-COVID Asia Pacific turns to traditional medicine

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.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Philippines 'open' to dengue vaccine as outbreak kills hundreds

As hundreds die in a severe dengue outbreak in the Philippines, many of them children, President Rodrigo Duterte said Thursday he was open to lifting his government's blanket ban on the Dengvaxia vaccine.

Cardiology

Highest adverse effect rates for three drugs in parkinson's

(HealthDay)—Ropinirole, bromocriptine, and piribedil are associated with the highest incidence rates of adverse effects in Parkinson's disease, according to a review published online Sept. 4 in CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics.

Medications

Hong Kong prescribes new dose of old Chinese medicine

The young woman pours a pack of brown powder into a glass of hot water, stirs it well and drinks the murky mixture down, hoping the traditional Chinese medicine will cure her feverish cold.

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