Category Archives: Medicine

Household Herbal Remedies And Unorthodox Medicine


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It goes without saying that if you fall ill, you go to a health care professional who will give you a looking over and recommend medication. You then go to the pharmacy to have the prescriptions filled. You try to follow the label instructions and hope to get cured. Quite often, you will eventually make another trip to see the health care professional and he will prescribe a severe cure. This is basically how the health care establishment works these days, a never ending cycle of trips to the health care professional and the pharmacy.

If someone were to recommend that you used herbal remedies to cure a lot of your problems you might think they were foolish. For a long time medical science has been involved in an effort to mock the use of herbal remedies to achieve health and healing. In recent years many studies have been done to test whether there are any benefits to what is referred to as herbal remedies.  Read more...

Alternative Medicine is not a Magic Potion for Seniors!


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Alternative Medicine is one side of an intense love/hate relationship for many seniors. What makes this statement fact is a recent federal survey that reveals that more than 34 percent of all U.S. adults routinely use it.

What about children you ask. Approximately 12 percent of them avail themselves of it, of which nutritional supplements play a large role. But what is this form of medicine?

Simply put, alternative medicine is any method of treatment for the relief, or cure, of any disease or malady that is not either approved, or recommended, by established medical practitioners and their professional organizations.

The survey included more than 32,000 Americans and was conducted in 2007. One of the findings was very revealing. Since the last survey was taken five years earlier, the use of many types of this form of treatment had neither increased, or decreased, during the ensuing five year span.  Read more...

Alternative Medicine in Acne Treatment – Fact Or Fallacy ?


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Along with what we consider regular orthodox medicine, there are a number of therapies such as homeopathy and herbal medicine, commonly referred to as alternative medicine. Many doctors regard these alternative forms of medicine as quack medicine. But are they? And do they have a role to play in the treatment of acne?


The main difference between alternative medicine and regular medicine is the focus on the whole person. Orthodox medicine as we know it today tends to focus on the disease, in this case, acne, and the part of the body affected by it, usually the face. Alternative medicine focuses on the whole person.  Read more...

Access to Medicine: Responses From Pharmaceutical Industry Heavyweights


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Recent statements, initiatives, and studies from three of the largest producers of pharmaceuticals in the world confirm that pharmaceutical patent holders are taking steps to improve access to medicines in developing countries. GSK, Johnson & Johnson, and Novartis all have publicly available information on their efforts to improve access to medicines. These efforts will be summarized in this article for reference.

GSK on Access to Medicines

GlaxoSmithKline is on the leading edge of providing access to medicines. Their programs range from making essential medicines more affordable to granting voluntary licenses to developing countries. Highlights of GSK’s programs to increase access to medicines include the following:

1. The Orange Card initiative in Lithuania covers the cost of medications for the poorest of Lithuania’s senior citizens. The program launched in July 2004 and by February 2005 more than 3,500 patients applied for the card and 107 pharmacies registered to participate.  Read more...