Western medicine
Americannoun
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After graduating, she began practicing conventional Western medicine at a clinic by day, and needling animals in their living rooms on evenings and weekends.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
The astounding discovery that could link Eastern and Western medicine.
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
Kurvilla, who studied at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and taught global health policy at Boston University, said that "40 percent or more of biomedical Western medicine, pharmaceuticals, derive from natural products".
From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025
They practised strict veganism and, as they had done with wider society, turned their back on Western medicine.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2024
For all these reasons, the population of traditional New Guinea never exceeded 1,000,000 until European colonial governments brought Western medicine and the end of intertribal warfare.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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