Mali's traditional healers unlock herbal cures
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Bourama Soumaoro's pharmacy looks much like any other, packets of pills in glass cabinets and jars of powder to fight everything from toothache to dysentery.
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A  discovery could lead to drugs to treat a 'forgotten' tropical disease, scientists hope.
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Arts & entertainment: Check out Shehani Fernando's pictures of all the excitement from the shindig in Mali
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Hundreds of medicinal plants are at risk of extinction, threatening the discovery of future cures for disease, experts warn.
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Johannesburg - The Medical University of South Africa (Medunsa) is to make an announcement at end of the year on the effectiveness of a local tradional herbal mixture in the fight against HIV-Aids, SAFM news reported on Saturday.
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Polio has reappeared in Guinea and Mali five years after the crippling disease was eradicated in the two West African countries and health experts said on Tuesday there was still a very real threat of a major epidemic spreading across the African continent
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A host of traditional ceremonies and practices are creating AIDS transmission routes unique to Africa, researchers now agree.
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WUGONG LAKE, China -- Perched above the banks of the catfish farm he owns is Zhu Zhiqiu's secret weapon for breeding healthy fish: the medicine shed. Inside are iodine bottles, vitamin packets and Chinese herbal concoctions that he claims substitute for antibiotics.
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Chinese villagers, believing the bones had magical properties, ground them down and used them in traditional medicines.
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Tropical Medicine in London, in research published online by The Lancet medical journal on Thursday. not new and had been made in many of the product-liability lawsuits filed against Philip Morris.
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BEIJING (dpa) - Chinese and Thai scientists have developed a herbal anti-AIDS drug that proved effective in 89 per cent of cases during clinical trials, Chinese state media said on Sunday.
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Alternative remedies abound, but which actually work?.
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A third of cancer patients are using complementary and alternative therapies, research suggests.
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A Kauai-based botanist who studies medicinal uses of plants has helped broker an agreement between the University of California at Berkeley and the Samoan government to isolate the gene for a promising anti-AIDS drug.
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People swear by herbal supplements, but they may do more harm than good
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THAM KRABOK, Thailand  - An obscure Buddhist monastery in central Thailand that advocates a secret herbal potion and ritual vomiting for drug addicts has become a final source of hope for thousands of Thais and Westerners. Since its foundation in 1959, Wat Tham Krabok, 140 km (85 miles) north of Bangkok, has put nearly 100,000 addicts through its "cold turkey" detox program and given them a grounding in meditation to help them keep on the straight and narrow. The treatment -- a far cry from the picture postcard beaches, jungle trekking and wild nightlife that draw millions of visitors to Thailand each year -- is not for the faint-hearted.
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South Africa&#39;s parliament has approved a bill formally recognizing traditional healers as heath care professionals. The National Assembly passed the bill Thursday to regulate the country&#39;s 200,000 traditional healers.