U.S. Pharmacies to Stock Honey-Laced Bandages Next Year

Sweet Health News About Honey 
By Jordan Lite, Daily News (USA), 12/27/2007
http://apitherapy.blogspot.com/2007/12/us-pharmacies-to-stock-honey-laced.html

..Used for thousands of years to treat wounds, honey is finding new
credibility as a health aid from government regulators and scientists
who have rediscovered its healing properties. 

Last month, the Food and Drug Administration allowed a Princeton,
N.J.-based company to promote the first honey-based wound dressing. 

Honey can ease children's coughs, a recent study found. And it may even
reduce the risk of anemia and infection in cancer patients getting
chemotherapy, 2006 research shows... 

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