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Furthermore, faith animates and sustains the work of many medical students, doctors, and nurses. For many of us, the medical duty to serve others and the faith-based call to treat others as we would treat ourselves are mutually reinforcing missions. That doesn’t mean, of course, that we agree with right-wing calls to avoid secular institutions and erase the boundary between church and state...
...Gardasil and some vaccines in clinical trial are preventative, but drug companies such as MGI Pharma are studying therapeutic vaccines to treat those already infected with the virus. "We need to come up with better vaccines - and we need to study them in men," says Haddad. Gardasil has not been tested against oral HPV, but Dr. Douglas Lowy, laboratory chief at the National Cancer Institute, says that there is every reason to think that, in principle, "the vaccine should be able to have an impact on oral cancers attributable to HPV." Lowy says that the next studies might start with...
...read books like “Mountain Beyond Mountains,” and I imagine myself packing my bags for rural Haiti, Peru, or Africa to help treat diseases with Dr. Paul Farmer, Presley professor of social medicine. But, in the end, I’d choose to study abroad in Spain or eat my way through Italy...
...long ago that migraine sufferers like Schipper had no choice butto retreat to their darkened bedroom and wait, often for days, until the agony passed. Doctors could prescribe heavy-duty painkillers, but regular use often triggered even more painful episodes. Making matters worse, friends and co-workers tended to treat headache sufferers as the punch line of a bad joke, as if they were having headaches on purpose to avoid work or sex or some deeply repressed memory...
Lifestyle changes, however, are sometimes not enough to prevent migraines. In such cases, doctors may turn to beta-blockers, drugs that were designed to treat high blood pressure. Although these medications open up the blood vessels, which would seem counterproductive if you're trying to prevent a migraine, they also turn out to have a soothing effect on nerve cells...