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When you're fighting in the jungle, malaria can be as deadly as artillery. So when China waged a brief war against Vietnam in 1979, Beijing issued its troops a crude anti-malarial pill based on a traditional Chinese medicine?and it worked. Today, hopes are high that a similar folk-remedy-derived treatment might help wipe out the disease. Scientists at the Mekong Malaria Symposium, held last week in Cambodia, announced that early clinical trials of the new drug Artekin eradicated malaria parasites in 95% to 100% of patients tested. And Artekin costs just $1.20 per dose, one-third...
...Chill Pill...
...play a key role in keeping joints healthy. "Ultimately, we think it's the biochemical approach that's going to solve the riddle of arthritis," says Dr. Mitchell Sheinkop, an orthopedic surgeon at the Rush--Presbyterian--St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. "Someday you may pop a pill and your cartilage will continue to grow, but that's 10 years away--at least...
...concept of taking a successful school and merging it is a very bitter pill to swallow,” said Peabody School Principal Ellen Varella...
...knew Kennedy had a fragile physical side and was often in pain. On board the Caroline and other chartered planes, I saw him take plenty of pills. But I was never alarmed. I knew of his many youthful illnesses and how he had twice received last rites in his young life, even though the public was not fully aware of that history. But he kept his spirits up. Once, flying late at night in a small plane from Milwaukee, Wis., to Seattle, I watched Kennedy's pill routine and then stretched out on the cramped cabin floor for some sleep...