Sentences with phrase «modern medical research»

Here's a link to a recent seminar about evolutionary medicine, full of useful references detailing some of the ways in which Darwin's theory is being used in modern medical research.

Genome - wide association studies, which try to find correlations between particular genetic variations and disease diagnoses, are a staple of modern medical research.

This, along with modern medical research tools, can allow us to give chimpanzees a kind of long - overdue respect that means something to them, not just to us.

Herbalists and natural healers have long advised olive leaves for the treatment of arthritis — and modern medical research supports the ability of olive leaf extracts to slow the development of both rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis.

That's because a trial like this one is almost without precedent in modern medical research: It involves giving children a vaccine that is almost certain not to benefit them, and that might harm them, all to protect other children from an unlikely scenario — a large - scale anthrax attack.

But a much cited study, published in 1984 in the journal Science by environmental psychologist Roger Ulrich, now at Texas A&M University, was the first to use the standards of modern medical research — strict experimental controls and quantified health outcomes — to demonstrate that gazing at a garden can sometimes speed healing from surgery, infections and other ailments.

This work was the result of a very fruitful collaboration between molecular biologists and statisticians, like a lot of work in modern medical research.»

In David Bellamy's Blooming Bellamy (BBC Books, pp 192, # 15.99), everyone's favourite botanist describes some of the history and uses in homeopathy, herbalism and modern medical research of the plethora of flora that existed — and that still grow — in every possible environment in the British countryside.