Clinical Environmental Medicine: In Reply

Clinical environmental medicine.

INTRODUCTION Clinical environmental medicine deals with environmental effects on human health in individual patients. Patients seek medical advice for problems of many different kinds that may be due to environmental exposures; such exposures must be considered carefully along with other potential causes. An environmental medical assessment should include thorough medical history-taking and phy...

Incorporating Environmental Health in Clinical Medicine

What are the objectives of 21st century healthcare? Five fundamental pillars and presuppositions appear to underscore the provision of clinical healthcare, whether conventional or alternative: (i) Healthcare should genuinely assist individuals (a) to prevent illness through health education; (b) to overcome and recover from disease and suffering when possible; (c) to receive compassionate and o...

Evidence based medicine--a reply.

Grand Rounds in Environmental Medicine

With this issue, Environmental Health Perspectives initiates a new series: Grand Rounds in Environmental Medicine. In this new series, we will present cases drawn from real life that represent problems commonly encountered in environmental medicine. Some of the cases will be routine; others will have a twist, a twist that is not too unordinary, but rather is illustrative of some of the variatio...

Evidence Based Medicine: Clinical Trials

Evidence based medicine is very important for success of modern medicine. It is the ongoing process of using the most reliable evidence from clinical studies, scientific understanding and medical practice to make the best possible medical choice for patients. Evidence based medicine is how medicine advances and how we get improvements in life expectancy and quality of life. It not only identifi...