Pandemic advances alternatives to hallway medicine

The emerging subspecialty of Hallway Medicine.

pelled to explore the emergence of this fascinating branch of medicine that first introduced the intricacies of physical examination through three layers of clothing. It is unfortunate that the architects and designers of our medical institutions had the myopic vision to ignore the possibilities of using the hallways for advanced medical care. In an era of cutbacks and cost constraint, can we h...

Ethical Alternatives to Experiments with Novel Potential Pandemic Pathogens

1 Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 Department of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases), Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, Unit...

Seven alternatives to evidence-based medicine.

Clinical decisions should, as far as possible, be evidence based. So runs the current clinical dogma [1, 2]. We are urged to lump all the relevant randomized controlled trials into one giant meta-analysis and come out with a combined odds ratio for all decisions. Physicians, surgeons, nurses are doing it [3-5]; soon even the lawyers will be using evidence-based practice [6]. But what if there i...

New Advances in Glaucoma Surgery : Alternatives to Standard Trabeculectomy

Advances in Internal Medicine

Unusual features of this new text are a long chapter on atomic and molecular structure, a clear summary of modern ideas about biological oxidation and reduction, and the extreme detail with which even the most elementary mathematical operations are explained. The behavior of buffers is also discussed very fully. Mathematical expressions of the laws of physical chemistry are cut down to a minimu...