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The use of the principles of evolution to understand disease processes and design effective medical treatment.

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The trials produced positive results, published in The New England Journal of Medicine in November.
The Race for the Ebola Vaccine|Abby Haglage|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
If laughter is the best medicine, The Comeback made you feel enough pain to need a dose—and then it delivered in spades.
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The religion shaped all facets of life: art, medicine, literature, and even dynastic politics.
The Buddhist Business of Poaching Animals for Good Karma|Brendon Hong|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For his tireless assault on evolutionary biology and downsizing the deity to fit within science, I give Meyer second place.
2014: Revenge of the Creationists|Karl W. Giberson|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

To regain their relevancy, Democrats need to go back to their evolutionary roots.
Time to Bring Back the Truman Democrats|Joel Kotkin|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Insult and outrage seemed to have given that bodily vigour to Ripperda, which medicine and surgery had taken no pains to restore.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
Barclay, in his tract on "The Vertues of Tobacco," recommends its use as a medicine.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
We knew then that his medicine was bad medicine, otherwise the white baas without the pictures could not have killed him.
Uncanny Tales|Various
And she did go; the doctor with great attention sending in half a dozen of medicine, to be drunk upon the road.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2(of 2)|Charles Dickens
William Read died; originally a cobbler, became a mountebank, and practiced medicine by the light of nature!
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell