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Research studies on the effects of prayer on healing have yielded contrasting findings, but can and should medicine try to quantify and qualify religious faith as a healing modality?
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It's an ambush of sorts a patient, armed with information on the latest prescription drug gleaned from television or print advertising, insists that his or her doctor prescribe the drug, even if the physician is unfamiliar with the drug or unsure of its safety and efficacy.
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Even before doctors in France performed a thus-far successful transplant of a partial face in November 2005, experts in the United States had the expertise and knowledge to transplant a face. What they have lacked is the right person to receive the graft.
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Knowing that you have hit on the ideal medication for your patient's condition is a satisfying feeling. But if you fail to ask one important question before handing him the prescription "Can you afford this medicine?" your careful thought may have been wasted.
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Abraham Cherrix is a 15-year-old boy with Hodgkin's disease. He's also an Internet-savvy free thinker who doesn't want to do another round of chemotherapy and radiation; what he wants to do is go to Mexico for a controversial herbal treatment he hopes will cure him.
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A gravely ill Sephardic Jew came to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from his home in Israel, hoping to find a successful treatment for his terminal cancer. The treatment did not yield the results he had hoped, but chaplain Rabbi Levi Meier visited his room with something more comforting than medicine.
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Clinical trials involving gene therapy are considered to be of great enough real and potential risk that they are not attempted in children before they have been conducted with adults.
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