On a Remote Path to Cures
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Scouring remote regions for plants, oils and extracts can yield cures â and big profits â for pharmaceutical companies and indigenous tribes.
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BEIJING -- They're paralyzed from diving accidents and car crashes, disabled by Parkinson's, or blind. With few options available at home in America, they search the Internet for experimental treatments _ and often land on Web sites promoting stem cell treatments in China.
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Scientists at the University of Cambridge develop new treatments for cancer.
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Genetic tests may soon help doctors find the best treatment for each individual.
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New technology could lead to safer, more effective drugs.
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CALGARY (CP) - Medical robots will increasingly hold the surgical key for heart patients living in remote or isolated communities, says a top cardiologist.
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Patients with few options available at home in America say they are having some success with experimental treatments in China. People suffering from varied ailments such as spinal-cord injuries, Parkinson's or blindness turn to the internet to find stem-cell treatments. But Western doctors warn that medical tourists are serving as guinea pigs.
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US researchers have found a way to use an antibiotic to correct a flaw in cancer cells that allows them to avoid the normal death process.
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Advance could eventually allow women to provide their own tissue for transplants and disease therapy.
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Rejection might not mean the end of the road for this cancer treatment.
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Scientists have used stem cells and a soup of nerve-friendly chemicals to not just bridge a damaged spinal cord but actually regrow the circuitry needed to move a muscle, helping partially paralyzed rats walk.
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Scientists working to build a life form from scratch have patented the method they plan to use.
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Some of the world's best minds explore cures for the most difficult problems in providing quality medical care for all.
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NEW YORK  - When people with depression  can't easily get to a psychiatrist's office, they can be helped  by telepsychiatry -- that is, remote treatment delivered over  personal-computer-based videoconferencing equipment and cameras  mounted on the monitors.
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Scientists hope to be able to use a harmless form of the AIDS virus to seek destroy cancer.
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Doctors risk treacherous landing conditions to reach sick people in some of the most remote parts of the world's largest rainforest
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Sometimes it takes one doctor's persistence to help a desperate patient find relief.