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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Olympic games 2012: Lord Moynihan sounds warning if cuts bite into 2012 medal budget
Britain's medal table target will be revised from fourth to eighth if funding is slashed, the BOA chairman has said

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.

World AIDS Day 2008: Much accomplished, much to do
When we commemorated the first World AIDS Day on December 1, 1988, we had little to celebrate.

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 hormone melatonin that appears to treat both sleepiness and the underlying cause of the sleep problem.

Federal conservationist gives Rhode Island top marks
Roylene Rides at the Door, a Native American, is about to end a three-year stint at the Department of Agriculture?s Natural Resources Conservation Service office here.

Mini Heart Attacks Lessen Damage From Major Ones
Researchers have discovered one potential mechanism by which briefly cutting off, then restoring, blood flow prior to a heart attack lessens the damage caused. The work could lead to new drugs that provide protection ahead of heart attacks, and may help to prevent damage caused as US heart surgeons temporarily cut off blood flow 450,000 times each year to perform coronary artery bypass graft ...