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.

Einstein researchers develop technique to count messages made by single genes
( Albert Einstein College of Medicine ) Researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University describe a technique for looking more precisely at a fundamental step of a cell's life: a gene, DNA, being read into a message, mRNA. The technique could provide a window into the process by which genes are switched on inappropriately, causing disease.

Researchers Develop Technique to Count Messages Made by Single Genes
In a study in the advance online edition of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine describe a technique for looking more precisely at a fundamental step of a cell's life - a gene, DNA, being read into a message, mRNA. The technique could provide a window into the process by which genes are switched on inappropriately, causing disease.

Gurus Take A Shine To Gold
The best-performing online investors commit to the yellow metal.

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.

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.

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.

Brazillian doctors treat dengue with cat's claw
The cat?s claw, a plant from the Amazon region that is already used to treat different diseases, is also effective in combating dengue, China?s Xinhua news agency quoted Brazilian media as reporting.

Questions surround activist's death plunge in elevator shaft
It was a bizarre and abrupt way to die for a man who, by all accounts, went at life full-bore and was fit and agile from riding his bicycle everywhere he went. But as San Francisco police combed over the evidence Tuesday, investigators said it was all but...

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.

I?d love to know what
I?d love to know what sea-level rise maps Steve McReady (no relation) used in NZ.

Snider named Rhodes scholar
FRIENDSWOOD ? Friendswood High School graduate Malorie Snider, now a Harvard student, joined a select group when she was named a Rhodes scholaR.