The enforcers: medical colleges are taking aim at some alternative practitioners

Article Abstract:

Several provincial colleges of physicians and and surgeons are investigating doctors who practice alternative therapies. The medical colleges say they are trying to protect the public from incompetence, but some of the doctors being investigated say the colleges are seeking to retain market dominance.

Investigations, Physicians, Medical professions, Medical colleges, Medical schools, Alternative medicine

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Beating AIDS: a 'cocktail' treatment of several drugs offers hope

Article Abstract:

Some AIDS patients are showing remarkable improvement after being treated with a new class of drugs called protease inhibitors in conjunction with AZT and other drugs. These findings bring hope to the 11th annual AIDS conference being held in Vancouver, BC. A timeline of the disease is given.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Drug therapy, AIDS patients, Native Americans, Native North Americans, AIDS (Disease), Vancouver, British Columbia, 1996 AD, International Conference on AIDS

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Wheezing and worrying

Article Abstract:

An estimated 6% of Canada's population suffers from asthma, and some 500 died in 1994 from asthma-related complications. Still, advances in asthma treatments allow most asthmatics to lead uncomplicated lives. Three-fifths of all asthma cases are hereditary.

Asthma, Allergy

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