Head transplantation: the ultimate level that medicine has not achieved

Integrative medicine, or not integrative medicine: that is the question.

On September 26-27, 2015, the 8th European Congress for Integrative Medicine convened the Global Summit on Integrative Medicine and Healthcare in Greater Copenhagen and Helsingør, Denmark at the Culture Yard just across from Kronborg Castle, which is home to William Shakespeare's Hamlet. This article is a summary of the author's presentation about integrative medicine within the Nordic region, ...

Chinese Medicine. The web that has no weaver

impossible, it would appear that illnesses associated with poverty, lack of bodily hygiene, bad food, and certain professions were particularly widespread. The second half of the study is an account of the overall development in the eighteenth century of the region's sanitary infrastructure (medical personnel, hospitals, etc.). Towns were less healthy than the countryside, local hospitals were ...

Has my patient achieved adequate myocardial reperfusion?

For two decades, the goal of reperfusion has been restoration of normal epicardial blood flow.1–4 It has, however, become increasingly apparent that not all TIMI grade 3 flow is created equally, and attention has shifted downstream to the restoration of normal myocardial perfusion to fully optimize clinical outcomes.3,4 The goal of this Clinician Update is to provide clinicians with a better un...

Use of CRM 470/RPPHS has not achieved true consensus for ceruloplasmin measurement.

To the Editor: The use of primary protein reference material CRM 470/RPPHS (1) was intended to lead to reduced method-dependent variation in specific protein analyses. Observations from UK NEQAS for Specific Proteins indicate that this is true for most proteins, but not for ceruloplasmin. Because the measurement of ceruloplasmin is an important part of the initial screening procedure for Wilson...

Con: Live high-train low does not improve sea-level performance beyond that achieved with the equivalent living and training at sea level.