Moses: The Founder of Preventive Medicine

Sayyed Esma'il Jorjani, founder of Persian medicine

Moses Maimonides: rabbi or medicine.

The great medieval Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides was also a practicing physician who contributed a number of important works to medical literature. Modern students of these treatises have made extravagant claims about Maimonides' scientific outlook and have attributed to him important discoveries and innovations. Viewed in its historical and religious content, Maimonides' medical work app...

The Jurnal of Preventive Medicine

This review presents many of numerous studies realized in the past century by Romanian researchers who contributed directly or indirectly to progress in animal anthrax specific prevention and imunological diagnosis of the disease. It is underlined Nicolae Stamatin’s great contribution; he obtained a new acapsulated and attenuated vaccinal strain of B. anthracis whose mass use led to a dramatica...

The Journal of Preventive Medicine

Preterm labor is the final common pathway after several potential insults to the fetomaternal unit. As a common cause, intrauterine infections (both clinically evident and subclinical) are associated with increased proinflammatory cytokine concentrations in the amniotic fluid and the gestational tissues. This fact represents the trigger for “the intrauterine inflammatory response syndrome” as a...

The Journal of Preventive Medicine

The objectives of our study were to evaluate two diagnostic methods (with and without x-ray) and to investigate the efficacy of barium meal examination. Material and methods. We performed a clinical randomized study at 675 subjects (aged 4 month-18 years) from University Children Hospital Iaşi (the only pediatric endoscopies department from North-East of Romania) and Students Hospital Iaşi. The...