Divriği Hospital - Medieval Healing Venue and Its Acoustic Characteristics

A New Venue for Providing Catalytic Global Communications to Promote Health and Healing

We are pleased to announce that Global Advances in Health and Medicine (Global Advances) now serves as the official publication of the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine & Health and is published by SAGE. While Global Advances is independent editorially from both the Academic Consortium and SAGE, the journal benefits from the Consortium’s commitment to improving health outcomes worldw...

Medieval and Early Modern Coinage and Its Problems*

This paper describes the chaotic monetary environment of medieval and early modern Europe. The poor quality of the coinage was a result both of problems with the supply of bullion and with deficiencies of monetary policy. The paper examines the supply and demand of bullion and the determinants of bullion flows. It then discusses the economics and politics of debasement. It concludes with a desc...

Healing Medicare hospital recidivism: causes and cures.

Evaluation of Phenotypic and Genotypic Characteristics of Carbapnemases-producing Enterobacteriaceae and Its Prevalence in a Referral Hospital in Tehran City

Background & Objective: Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae is a growing concern worldwide including Iran. The emergen...

Medieval uroscopy and its representation on misericords--part 1: Uroscopy.

The art of uroscopy involved the visual inspection of urine in a specially shaped flask called a matula. By the fourteenth century it had become an integral part of the assessment of the patient's humoral balance, which was the linchpin of both diagnosis and management in medieval medical practice, and the matula became the symbol of a physician. However, the practice was open to abuse by unscr...