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Tuskegee was just part of a pattern of experimental abuse, one of many shameful chapters in what Harriet A. Washington calls "the long, unhappy history of medical research with black Americans." Washington, a journalist and research scholar in ethics, writes in "Medical Apartheid" that this history has left blacks with an ugly legacy of distrust for research and even treatment, and that it is a lingering stain on the history of medicine. She does not oppose medical research or blacks' inclusion... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Researchers launch website on new cancer research Jan 23, 2007
There are numerous examples in the history of Medicine of therapies or drugs that failed to show benefit in real patients despite promising effects in animals. The research team at the University of Alberta is optimistic because the tumors studied were actually human cancers growing into animals. (CTV.ca)
Elizabeth's curious herbal Jan 22, 2007
Their stories are often confused because both are considered among the most important women in the history of medicine both in England and the United States. (Maureen Gilmer is a horticulturist and host of "Weekend Gardening" on DIY Network. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Artificial heart donated to Smithsonian Jan 13, 2007
Jarviks innovations have helped shape the history of medicine, museum director Brent D. Glass said in a statement. This donation is a wonderful addition to our collections representing American ingenuity and innovations. (MSNBC -- Health)
Is Peter Pan treatment right? Jan 6, 2007
The solution they seized upon, unprecedented in the history of medicine, was to use hormones and surgery to keep Ashley forever a child. If she remains small then her parents can move her easily from place to place. (MSNBC -- Health)
Is murder mystery of Medicis solved? (Maria Sanminiatelli) Jan 6, 2007
"Immediately after their deaths, rumors began to circulate that they had been poisoned," says Donatella Lippi, a professor of history of medicine and a co-author of the study. It "was a lethal dose, but progressive, and the symptoms were compatible with arsenic poisoning." From the outset, Ferdinando de' Medici's behavior was suspicious and fueled rumors, the study says. (Washington Times)
A 400-Year-Old Murder Mystery, 'CSI' Style Jan 4, 2007
"The symptoms were compatible with arsenic poisoning. Professor Donatella Lippi WHAT DO YOU THINK? (AP) Scientists in Italy believe they have uncovered a murder 400 years after it is thought to have taken place. Historians have long suspected that Francesco de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and his second wife, Bianca Cappello, did not die of malaria but were poisoned by Francesco's brother, Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici, who was vying for the dukedom. For four centuries, that theory... (CBS News)
Scientists in Italy believe they have uncovered a 400-year-old Medici family murder Jan 3, 2007
Francesco's "was a lethal dose, but progressive, and the symptoms were compatible with arsenic poisoning" Donatella Lippi, a professor of history of medicine and a co-author of the study, published in the British Medical Journal on Dec. 21, told The Associated Press. Today in Europe. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Scientists May Have Found Medici Murder Jan 3, 2007
Francesco's "was a lethal dose, but progressive, and the symptoms were compatible with arsenic poisoning" Donatella Lippi, a professor of history of medicine and a co-author of the study, published in the British Medical Journal on Dec. 21, told The Associated Press. As rulers, art connoisseurs and financiers of kings, the Medici flourished for centuries in the rough and tumble alliances of old Europe, ruling first the city of Florence then Tuscany from 1430 to 1737. (Newsday -- Health)
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