Chinese medicines for slimming still cause health problems

Essential medicines are still essential.

On Oct 21, WHO published the full report of the 20th Expert Committee on the Selection and Use of Essential Medicines, with its new WHO Model List of Essential Medicines (EML). The new list includes recently developed medicines for drug-resistant tuberculosis (bedaquiline and delamanid), a number of new cancer treatments (such as imatinib, rituximab, and trastuzumab), and, perhaps most controve...

Exercise for slimming

The pejorative aphorism Obesity is the result of greed and sloth has come to be applied to the fat individual. The inferences implied are widely accepted not only by the public and journalists but by the health-care professional and the nutritional scientist too. Is this justified particularly with respect to sloth? Of course, fat deposition must be the result of excess intake of energy in rela...

Chinese herbal medicines.

HISTORY Since the emperor Shen Nong tasted 100 herbs and taught the Chinese people how to use them in diet and therapy, herbal medicine has been an integral part of Chinese culture and medical practice. Descriptions of herbal therapy occur in the earliest texts that discuss Chinese medical practice. The traditional Chinese materia medica includes minerals and animal parts as well as herbs. Late...

Does Abortion Cause Mental Health Problems?

Still looking for the cause of fever?

A 49-year-old man with no significant past medical history was transferred to our unit from another facility. He had become unwell 9 days previously, initially with a sore throat, followed by generalised muscle aches, primarily over his shoulders, legs and chest. These symptoms were accompanied by fevers, headache, and worsening breathlessness. Despite initial management by his local doctor wit...