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Family Medicine Mar 2023
Topics: Humans; Family Practice; Health Equity; Delivery of Health Care
PubMed: 36888678
DOI: 10.22454/FamMed.2023.375894 -
Occupational Medicine (Oxford, England) Aug 2019
Topics: Aerospace Medicine; Astronauts; History, 20th Century; Humans; Moon; Occupational Exposure; Occupational Medicine; United States; United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration
PubMed: 31436817
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqz096 -
American Journal of Perinatology Jan 2019
Topics: Biomedical Research; Fellowships and Scholarships; Female; Gynecology; Humans; Obstetrics; Pregnancy; Reproductive Health; Women's Health
PubMed: 30625510
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1676585 -
Le Journal Medical Libanais. the... 2009Herbal medicine, the most major component of traditional medicine, is as old as recorded history. Beginning in the early 1800s, with the development in the science of...
Herbal medicine, the most major component of traditional medicine, is as old as recorded history. Beginning in the early 1800s, with the development in the science of chemistry, a new era in pharmacotherapeutics was initiated whereby active chemical ingredients in plants, historically known to produce a favorable therapeutic effect, were extracted, purified and their structure disclosed. This ushered the modern era of therapy with drugs based on exploration of pure chemical products as to chemical identity, physicochemical properties, pharmacodynamic actions, pharmacokinetic behavior in the biological system, toxicological profile and effective and safe application in therapy. This relegated herbal medicine to a secondary role. More recently, a revival in the use of herbal medicine has been witnessed, even in culturally advanced societies, probably enhanced by the false belief that natural products are safe and also by vigorous promotion. Parallel to the increase in the use of herbal preparations as remedies for major diseases, there is currently a growing concern about their efficacy, safety and control. This prompted the World Health Organization to come out with recommendations for control in the document "Research Guidelines for Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of Herbal Medicines" in 1993. The guidelines are equal in strictness to those applicable for drugs in general. A large number of member states have adopted these guidelines. The dangers in using herbal preparations for treatment include: * unproven therapeutic benefit * undisclosed toxicities * interaction of the chemicals in herbal preparations with each other and with concomitantly taken drugs, at the level of functionally important biological entities such as the plasma proteins, receptors, ion channels, transporters and others * incompatibilities with patient-related factors such as age, sex, genetic background and the function of the organs responsible for eliminating the effects of chemicals in herbal preparations such as the liver or kidney * the difficulty in standardizing treatments and * the inclusion of regular drugs with the herbal preparations without disclosure. In Lebanon, a committee is charged with the control of herbal preparations but a stricter control is required to handle preparations with a therapeutic claim as well as the issue of promotion.
Topics: Clinical Competence; Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; Evidence-Based Medicine; Global Health; Herbal Medicine; Humans; Lebanon; Plants, Medicinal; World Health Organization
PubMed: 20027796
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JAMA Network Open Sep 2023Military medicine in the US was established to treat wounded and ill service members and to protect the health and well-being of our military forces at home and abroad....
IMPORTANCE
Military medicine in the US was established to treat wounded and ill service members and to protect the health and well-being of our military forces at home and abroad. To accomplish these tasks, it has developed the capacity to rapidly adapt to the changing nature of war and emerging health threats; throughout our nation's history, innovations developed by military health professionals have been quickly adopted by civilian medicine and public health for the benefit of patients in the US and around the world.
OBSERVATIONS
From the historical record and published studies, we cite notable examples of how military medicine has advanced civilian health care and public health. We also describe how military medicine research and development differs from that done in the civilian world. During the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, military medicine's focused approach to performance improvement and requirements-driven research cut the case fatality rate from severe battlefield wounds in half, to the lowest level in the history of warfare.
CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE
Although innovations developed by military medicine regularly inform and improve civilian health care and public health, the architects of these advances and the methods they use are often overlooked. Enhanced communication and cooperation between our nation's military and civilian health systems would promote reciprocal learning, accelerate collaborative research, and strengthen our nation's capacity to meet a growing array of health and geopolitical threats.
Topics: Humans; Public Health; Military Medicine; Military Personnel; Afghanistan; Communication
PubMed: 37733341
DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.35125 -
Bulletin of the New York Academy of... Apr 1961
Topics: Medicine; Social Behavior
PubMed: 13706031
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Journal of the National Medical... Sep 1956
Topics: Anthropology; Humans; Medicine
PubMed: 13357945
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British Medical Journal Sep 1956
Topics: Medicine
PubMed: 13356016
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.4991.510 -
American Journal of Clinical Pathology Feb 1948
Topics: Humans; Medicine
PubMed: 18898453
DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/18.2.101 -
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory... Mar 2016
Topics: Anniversaries and Special Events; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Humans; Medical Laboratory Science; Pathology, Clinical; Periodicals as Topic
PubMed: 26927713
DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2015-0469-ED