Natural Medicine: Unearthing the benefits of mushrooms
Natural Medicine: Unearthing the benefits of mushrooms.

Fight the flu with 'medicine food'
ABC7 Food Coach Lori Corbin shows you "medicine food" to fight your flu with a fork.

Ten essential items for your medicine cabinet


Physician Launches Innovative Sports Nutrition Organic Program
Craig Koniver, MD, a Board Certified Physician and owner of Primary Plus Organic Medicine, LLC, is launching his Sports Nutrition Organic Program which helps athletes of all levels optimize their strength and endurance and become peak performers. Since Dr. Koniver is an expert in Organic Medicine, a new medical specialty with a natural approach to better health and wellness, he has developed a ...

Dying to Head West
FRONTIER MEDICINE From the Atlantic to the Pacific, 1492-1941 By David Dary Knopf. 381 pp. $30 Among the first things exchanged by European settlers and Native Americans were diseases and medical treatments. The Europeans gave the natives measles, yellow fever and smallpox; when the Indians tried...

Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN in line for surgeon general
President-elect Barack Obama has asked Dr. Sanjay Gupta to be the next U.S. surgeon general, looking to a popular television personality to help provide a public face for his health-care agenda. Best known as a health and medical correspondent for CNN and CBS, Gupta, 39, is also a practicing neurosurgeon in Atlanta and a member of the faculty of the Emory University School of Medicine, one of ...

CNN's Gupta offered Surgeon General post
 President-elect Barack Obama has asked Dr. Sanjay Gupta to be the next U.S. surgeon general, looking to a popular television personality to help provide a  public face for his healthcare agenda. Best known as a health and medicine correspondent for CNN and CBS, Gupta, 39, is also a practicing neurosurgeon in Atlanta and a member of the faculty of the Emory University School of Medicine, one ...

Elective C-sections performed too early 36% of the time
More than a third of elective C-sections are performed too early, increasing newborns' risk of respiratory distress and other problems, researchers report today.

Mohawk team paves the way for electronic health system
It's expected to become the Interac of medicine, and they're building the prototype at Mohawk College. For more than a year, a team of a dozen faculty members and students has been hunkered down in a computer lab building the prototype for a Canada-wide electronic health records system.

Union takes on bioethics
Medicine as a tool for healing or for enhancement. Women selling their eggs. Embryos that are part human, part animal.

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.

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Fact vs. Fiction in Gaza
Fiction: There?s no food in Gaza and people are starving . News reports, including one produced by TV station France 2 on Dec. 29, showed a Gaza resident in a food store saying: ?Apparently, there is nothing, as you can see. There are no natural products for the kids. There is no milk.

Malta and international press digest
The Times says a Maltese-Arab woman, Sanaa El-Nahhal, resident in Malta, is collecting supplies and intends to go to Gaza in the next fortnight. The Malta Independent says a government promise of January payment is little comfort to medicine importers.

Study of Everest Climbers Questions Oxygen Use
Whether low levels would work for ER patients with hypoxia remains unclear.

UMCOR Hotline for January 6, 2009
United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) - USA In Today's Hotline: GAZA: PROVIDING MEDICINE AND FOOD US: IOWA FLOOD RECOVERY

Scientists uncover how metastatic cancer cells plan their 'relocation'
Washington, Jan 6 : Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered how metastatic cancer cells select their next site of infection.

Saturday trade deadline of little concern to Hawks
Hawks say that adding older players to their roster wouldn't make sense.

Having Problems With Chronic Yeast Infections?
Some people use Natural or home remedies to get rid of their yeast infections, and when they are suffering from chronic yeast infections they usually use these remedies in conjunction with others.

The Gupta choice
Politicians on all sides have their doubts about him. Even some Obama fans admit to being of two minds. by Dana Blankenhorn

(Not so) weird science: Medical breakthroughs that affect our lives
By MERYL DAVIDS LANDAU? Enough medical studies were published last year to down a small forest. Most appeared with little fanfare and faded quietly, of interest only to a small group of scientists ? but a handful hit like small bombshells, overturning conventional wisdom about serious but common conditions. We culled the journals and queried the experts to find 2008?s breakthroughs: the best ...