Natural Medicine: High-fructose corn syrup and children
Natural Medicine: High-fructose corn syrup and children.

Natural safe products
Everyone in Cindy Kochendorfer?s family has asthma. Since she has rid her home of chemical-laced cleaning products, their asthma symptoms have improved dramatically and ? they have been able to decrease the amount of prescription medicine they use.

Goodbye scars: Handful of doctors testing natural orifice surgery
MINNEAPOLIS -- Dr. Christopher Gostout remembers the first time he heard anyone suggest such a thing. He was in a roomful of doctors at a seaside resort, brainstorming about the future. Perform surgery without piercing the skin? Take out someone?s appendix through the mouth? ?We all fell off our seats, laughing,? he recalled.

Einstein researchers develop technique to count messages made by single genes
( Albert Einstein College of Medicine ) Researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University describe a technique for looking more precisely at a fundamental step of a cell's life: a gene, DNA, being read into a message, mRNA. The technique could provide a window into the process by which genes are switched on inappropriately, causing disease.

Researchers Develop Technique to Count Messages Made by Single Genes
In a study in the advance online edition of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine describe a technique for looking more precisely at a fundamental step of a cell's life - a gene, DNA, being read into a message, mRNA. The technique could provide a window into the process by which genes are switched on inappropriately, causing disease.

Gurus Take A Shine To Gold
The best-performing online investors commit to the yellow metal.

Here's to your health
Ever wish you could take all the medical advice you read and put it in one place? Look no further. Throughout the year, The Sun has reported ways to maintain a healthy mind and body, with advice from Naperville doctors, counselors, alternative medicine practitioners and patients themselves. Below are some of the best tips they had to offer in 2008.

Efforts to properly dispose of medicine increase
Campaigns to clear out cupboards are gaining momentum as trace amounts of drugs are being found in the water supply, from what people drink, to what they bathe in, to what they and Michigan's critters splash around in during the summers.

UTMB layoffs included 127 faculty
GALVESTON ? Experts in molecular medicine, researchers on infectious diseases and well-known surgeons were among the 127 UTMB faculty members laid off.

New Approaches Make Retinal Detachment Highly Treatable
In a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine, a leading ophthalmologist writes that a high probability of reattachment and visual improvement is possible by using one of three currently available surgical techniques.

Flora and fauna
Science fans have a natural selection of learning opportunities this week as The Academy of Science of St. Louis holds free seminars on medicinal plants and evolution.

Opening up the last part of the spectrum
(PhysOrg.com) -- New European research on the last, hidden part of the electromagnetic spectrum is producing new, safe and non-destructive tests for medicine, security and industrial quality control.

Huge Stash of Marijuana Found in Ancient Tomb
An ancient Caucasian people seem to have buried one of their shamans with a whopping 789 grams of high-potency pot 2,700 years ago.

Weather factors cause dry skin
Dr. Mary Jo Fisher has been with Cox Family Medicine Residency for 14 years.

Armchair Survivalist offers advice
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho » The Armchair Survivalist believes the nation is falling into chaos, and he wants to help. He offers practical advice for dealing with riots, wars, natural disasters and food shortages, which he says are imminent because of the worldwide economic meltdown and the

Safer Ways to Keep Little Ones Healthy This Winter
(ARA) - Concerns over children's cold remedies have many parents thinking twice before opening the medicine cabinet to treat their little one's cough or cold.

New drug may help insomniacs
Australian scientists have developed a new drug that could help air travellers beat severe jet lag and shift workers avoid insomnia. Melbourne researchers have made a synthetic version of the sleep

Red Yeast Rice
Red yeast rice is a traditional Chinese substance made by fermenting a type of yeast called Monascus purpureus over rice. Various formulations of this product have been used in China since at least 800 AD as a food and also as a medicinal substance within the context of Traditional Chinese Herbal medicine . This ancient preparation contains naturally occurring substances similar (and, in some ...

Some vets exploring Chinese healing - Navy News, opinions, editorials, news from Iraq, photos, reports - Navy Times
TUCSON, Ariz. ? Can ancient Chinese healing rites help Iraq war veterans cope with combat trauma? A Tucson-area therapist believes they can, and is offering free treatments for local Iraq vets to test an approach that involves tapping on the acupuncture points used in Chinese medicine.

Analysis supports use of surgery to treat medication-resistant epilepsy
Persons with temporal lobe epilepsy who do not respond to medication could receive a substantial gain in life expectancy and quality of life by undergoing surgery of the temporal lobe part of the brain, according to an analysis reported in the Dec. 3 issue of JAMA.