History
epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Jeremy A. Greene

SPACES OF GENERIC CONSUMPTION: THE PHARMACY AND THE SUPERMARKET Although much ink would be spilled in medical and pharmaceutical periodicals over who best understood the needs of the medical consumer—the ...
( Category: History April 16,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Starr [Starr, Paul]

The Depression, Welfare Medicine, and the Doctors Increased state and federal financing of medical services for the poor originated inadvertently and inconspicuously during the Depression. It was a hidden consequence ...
( Category: Health Care Delivery April 12,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Victor K. McElheny

“Get Outside of Hypothesis-Limited Science” Even before the draft human sequences of 2000, one of the first to plunge into human variation was David Altshuler, a physician specializing in endocrinology ...
( Category: Genetics April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Jeffreys, Diarmuid [Jeffreys, Diarmuid]

Although overdoses were rare, the article continued, they did occur and doctors should be aware of the possibility. However, it concluded: 'aspirin in ordinary doses appears to be singularly safe'. ...
( Category: History April 8,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-09-15 | Author:Robert Aronowitz [Aronowitz, Robert]

Local origins, global use Differences between the historical, social, and economic contexts in which risk interventions originate and the contexts in which they are later used can lead to unanticipated ...
( Category: Family Practice April 7,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-05 | Author:Christoph Irmscher [Irmscher, Christoph]

John Bachman, by John Woodhouse Audubon. Oil on canvas, c. 1837. Bachman’s mounting irritation with polygenists like Samuel Morton and Louis Agassiz would soon find its outlet in a book-length ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 20,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Forrester, M.D.

16 THE CLOT BUSTERS I don’t want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I’m 40. —PETE MARAVICH, ALL-AMERICAN BASKETBALL PLAYER WHO DIED SUDDENLY AT ...
( Category: History March 8,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-25 | Author:James, Nick [James, Nick]

Drugs used for symptom control Although not directly treating the cancer, a range of supportive care drugs have contributed to big improvements in cancer treatments over the last 10 to ...
( Category: Oncology January 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-27 | Author:E. James Lieberman & Gregory C. Richter

[Tuesday] February 26, 1924 Lieber Herr Doktor: I hope you’ve recovered on schedule and will again be participating. Given the current situation with my ability to speak and the resulting ...
( Category: History December 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-12-26 | Author:Zwijnenberg, Robert,Knoeff, Rina & Robert Zwijnenberg

Conclusions While anatomy in Vienna very much followed international disciplinary trends – indeed, it sometimes led the way – it was also deeply embedded in Austrian and Viennese society, politics ...
( Category: Museum Studies & Museology December 27,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jon Palfreman

11 THE DESCENDANTS Chance favors the prepared mind. —Louis Pasteur, 1854 After he helped pioneer L-dopa therapy in the 1960s with individuals like patient 3, Roger Duvoisin went on to ...
( Category: Neurology December 14,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-06-01 | Author:Matthew Smith

ALTHOUGH THE COURT RULED IN FAVOR of the AAAI and the other defendants, the decision ultimately rested on a technicality—that is, whether clinical ecology was indeed “recognizable and identifiable” as ...
( Category: Allergies December 14,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Altman, Stuart.

The Birth of DRGs The HEW team had three goals in designing the new Medicare hospital payment system. It wanted to end cost-based payments, create an annual budget for hospital ...
( Category: Social Policy November 23,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2005-05-25 | Author:Hippocrates [Hippocrates]

APHORISMS The anthology of medical truths which has been famous enough to add a word to the English language. Section I 1. Life is short, science is long; opportunity is ...
( Category: Pathology July 27,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:James Le Fanu [Le Fanu, James]

Technology and the High Cost of Dying The third and most significant type of misuse of technology is the use of life-sustaining technologies to prolong the process of dying. The ...
( Category: Health Care Delivery July 21,2015 )