Goggin, Kirstie Alice Thompson, Mark Sandle, Tim
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Frontiers for Young Minds
Medicines are chemicals that are used to cure, slow, or prevent disease. Some medicines are injected into the bloodstream, so production facilities must make sure those medicines do not contain microorganisms, toxins, or particles. If they did, the medicines could make people very ill and even cause death, which is the opposite of what medicines ar...
Álvarez Dopico, Clara Ilham
A partir de los escritos del trinitario Francisco Ximénez y de la documentación de archivo De Propaganda Fide, se ofrece una semblanza de los doctores don Manuel de Gabriel Mendoza y don José Carrillo, que ejercieron como médicos en el Túnez de las primeras décadas del siglo XVIII. Sus biografías llaman nuestra atención sobre la existencia de una r...
Hussey, Kristin D
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Endeavour
Rhythm characterizes life on Earth. Daily physiological rhythms of eating and fasting, sleeping and waking, moving and resting, are common to almost all life forms which evolved under the solar light-dark cycle. Despite their ubiquity, historians of health and medicine have yet to grapple with the lived experiences of these daily rhythms in the pas...
Nagai, Noriaki Otake, Hiroko
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Advanced drug delivery reviews
Dry eye disease (DED) is a frequently observed eye complaint, which has recently attracted considerable research interest. Conventional therapy for DED involves the use of artificial tear products, cyclosporin, corticosteroids, mucin secretagogues, antibiotics and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. In addition, ocular drug delivery systems based...
Singh, Renuka
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Journal of religion and health
The religious context of death has deep implications in shaping the phenomenon of death for the denizens of Kashi. The present paper argues that religious understanding of death confronts the medical issue(s) in the contemporary scenario. To explore the abysmal religio-cultural underpinning(s) of the episteme of death and dying in the era of hegemo...
Dwivedi, Alok Kumar
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Journal of investigative medicine : the official publication of the American Federation for Clinical Research
Reporting of statistical analysis is essential in any clinical and translational research study. However, medical research studies sometimes report statistical analysis that is either inappropriate or insufficient to attest to the accuracy and validity of findings and conclusions. Published works involving inaccurate statistical analyses and insuff...
Jana, Sayantee et al, .
Background: India has a substantial burden of malaria, concentrated in specific areas and population groups. Spatio-temporal modelling of deaths due to malaria in India is a critical tool for identifying high-risk groups for effective resource allocation and disease control policy-making, and subsequently for the country’s progress towards United N...
Walker, Benjamin H Brown, Dustin C Walker, Courtney S Stubbs-Richardson, Megan Oliveros, Arazais D Buttross, Susan
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Child abuse & neglect
The association between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and increased risk of health problems is well established. However, many studies have relied on unrepresentative or high-risk samples and have focused on a narrow range of health problems. Prior research assessing potential age differences in the ACE-health connection is also sparse. To c...
Varga, Somogy
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Theoretical medicine and bioethics
Medicine is increasingly subject to various forms of criticism. This paper focuses on dominant forms of criticism and offers a better account of their normative character. It is argued that together, these forms of criticism are comprehensive, raising questions about both medical science and medical practice. Furthermore, it is shown that these for...
Murray, Craig von Possel, Nina Lie, Hanne C Breivik, Jarle
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Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education
People's ability to critically assess cancer-related information is essential from a preventional and therapeutic, as well as a general democratic perspective. Such cancer literacy is not just about acquiring factual knowledge. It also involves the ability to analyze how the information is contextualized-how cancer is framed. Previous research conc...