NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In addition to conventional treatments aimed at improving survival, most cancer patients use "complementary methods" (CMs) to relieve symptoms and side effects and increase ...

Conventional medicine is the most common type of medicine in the Western world. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is the term for treatments that are not part of mainstream healthcare. Many ...

Many breast cancer survivors want supplemental ways to manage symptoms. When Teri Richardson was given the diagnosis of breast cancer, she said she felt like her breath was taken away. "I didn't ...

One of the fundamental purposes of biotherapeutic research, development, and production is to assure the safety and efficacy of medicinal products in clinical settings. Analytical tools are critical ...

Reactions that let chemists selectively make one enantiomer of a molecule over another fall into a field of modern organic chemistry called asymmetric catalysis. These reactions are crucial for ...

Prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells change and adapt to their environments in ways that genomic characterization methods do not fully capture or predict. Even strains of the same species of microbe can ...