This website provides cultural information and background on different refugee and immigrant communities including information about culture, language, health, illness, and community resources. Useful to health care providers who see patients from different ethnic groups.
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Full text of the diabetes II 'cure' paper. I'll read it later but if anyone who wants to have a look. http://bit.ly/kK9ohj
Odorant receptors and the organisation of the olfactory system http://bit.ly/mdtOaZ
Knowledge, perceptions and practices towards medical ethics among physician residents of University of Alexandria hospitals, Egypt
Clinical and research information on drug-induced liver injury.
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This magnificent study of cancer suggests that, for all medicine's advances, we cannot beat a disease that is a distorted version of ourselves, says Alexander Linklater
Film on the medicalisation of female sexual dysfunction.
The FreeMedForms project is a high quality medical software suite released in open source. This project is international, free, community driven and totally independent. Since 2008, it brings together volunteer professional (doctors, pharmacists, physiotherapists, computer specialists, students of all specialties) working to provide modern and well finished applications. The project is available for the following computing platforms: Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.
Blood banks network across Egypt.
What good can it possibly be to society if its doctors are so removed from the concerns of their patients, the needs of society or the history of freedom?
The Professor wanted to make his case in the most convincing style possible. He indicated that, in his view, no normal person would find the experience of giving a lecture to a large audience to be erotically stimulating or erection-inducing. He had, he said, therefore injected himself with papaverine in his hotel room before coming to give the lecture, and deliberately wore loose clothes (hence the track-suit) to make it possible to exhibit the results. He stepped around the podium, and pulled his loose pants tight up around his genitalia in an attempt to demonstrate his erection.
Medical scholar Harriet Washington joins us to talk about her new book, "Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present." The book reveals the hidden underbelly of scientific research and the roots of the African American health deficit. It also examines less well-known abuses and looks at unethical practices and mistreatment of blacks that are still taking place in the medical establishment today.
How the brain scans results are portrayed is one of the simplest mistakes in interpreting diagnostic test accuracy to make. What has happened is, the sensitivity1 has been taken to be the positive predictive value2, which is what you want to know: if I have a positive test do I have the disease? Not, if I have the disease, do I have a positive test? It would help if the results included a measure called the likelihood ratio (LR), which is the likelihood that a given test result would be expected in a patient with the target disorder compared to the likelihood that the same result would be expected in a patient without that disorder. In this case the LR is 4.5. We've put up an article …
Effects of stress on telomeres and aging.
Medical researcher who revolutionised the treatment of TB
This is the future.
The wide ragne of lab tests available. No prices though.
Article 16 of the draft law provides that specialist and consultant doctors must acquire a total of 250 accreditation points over the course of a five-year period and at least 70 points during the first 2 years of this period.
In Egypt, a private pilot programme aiming at a holistic treatment of the issues of burns patients started in 1989 in Assiut, the capital of Upper Egypt.
Iron build up damaging vessels?
It is criminal to claim that it can cure HIV, malaria or TB. If refrigerated it can help with thirst though.
A photograph of Phineas Gage identified on Flickr!!
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