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Topic: Medicine

Related:
  School of Medicine    Health and Medicine  
  Alternative Medicine    Institute of Medicine  
  Chinese Medicine    Internal Medicine  
  Journal of Medicine    History of Medicine  
  Sports Medicine    Herbal Medicine  
  Nuclear Medicine    Medicine Information  

 
 
 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite possession(s):Smallpox vaccine
Personality:Nervous
Currently has on their coffee table:Men's Health magazine
Dream job(s):Nurse,  Social worker
Education:Post-graduate,  College
Favorite activity(s):Taking drugs
Favorite body part(s):Heart
Interest(s):Biology,  Psychology
Medical note(s):Taking Viagra,  Taking weight loss pills,  Taking Prozac
Membership(s):World Vision
Worst habit(s):Smoking Marijuana,  Taking Drugs
Favorite quote(s):"Reality is a crutch for people who can not deal with drugs." - Lily Tomlin
 
 
 Expert Talk
The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor

Medicines require the authorization of the medical authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
John Fielding,
CEO

Merck markets prescription medicines & medical devices in the UK, supplying various pharmaceuticals and products to the NHS and some private hospitals.
GlaxoSmithKline is well-known as a marketer of high-quality medicines and consumer healthcare brands that are among the leaders in their fields.
Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant

These politicians allege that pharmaceutical companies preclude seniors from receiving affordable prescription medication by preventing cheaper copies of medicines that they have invented from being produced by generic drug companies.
Medicines and other requirements are procured from government organisations or from donors.
The Medicines Commission considered the results of the consultation in November, and then made recommendations to Ministers.
Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator

I remember a student in South Carolina who was able to give up an extensive regimen of medicines when her symptoms of early arthritis cleared up completely with a concentrated effort to regularize nutrition and rest.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

Since most homeopathic medicines are generic, that is not protected by patent, the economic incentives to research and develop these drugs are different than those for synthetic drugs that can be patented.
The authors conclude that the clinical effects of homeopathic medicines are not simply the results of placebo.
It could also lead to a better understanding of early childhood development disorders and the testing of new medicines could be hastened with the availability of populations of specific cells.
David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist

Your doctor and pharmacist should review all of your medicines at each visit and make sure that you are not taking any prescription medicines that can interact.
Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate

Such a move would increase the potential sources of supply for developing countries in need of more affordable medicines and taking advantage of the flexibility of compulsory licensing which both the TRIPS Agreement and the Doha Declaration promise they retain.
 
 
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