Commercial medicine.

The commercial promotion of medicine.

In Vitro Effects of a Commercial Herbal Medicine Used as African Traditional Medicine on Human Neutrophils

BACKGROUND Commercial herbal medicines (CHMs) being marketed as immune boosters or tonics, have gained widespread popularity. The many herbal mixtures sold have not been tested for efficacy and safety, despite their modern packaging and presentations. It is imperative that these herbal mixtures be investigated for their effects on human neutrophils. METHODS The selected herbal mixture (HM), S...

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Nuclear medicine market sees solid growth as PET shows signs of commercial viability

For vendors at this year’s Society of Nuclear Medicine show in Los Angeles, the industry’s hard times of the mid-1990s were only a memory. While the meeting suffered from low physician attendance and a paucity of new technological introductions, the growing commercial promise of PET for the most part overshadowed other concerns. Vendors sailed into the show buoyed by a strong market: Industry o...

Further development of a commercial driving simulation for research in occupational medicine.

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to refine a commercial car driving simulation for occupational research. As the effects of ethanol on driving behavior are well established, we choose alcohol as a test compound to investigate the performance of subjects during simulation. MATERIALS AND METHODS We programmed a night driving scenario consisting of monotonous highway and a rural road on ...