Selected Medical Luminaries

Selected Topics in Medical Genetics

Time does not heal all wounds: medical luminaries, national socialism, and the American College of Chest Physicians.

1 Dimopoulos G, Siempos II, Korbila IP, et al. Comparison of first-line with second-line antibiotics for acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Chest 2007; 132:447–455 2 Wood-Baker RR, Gibson PG, Hannay M, et al. Systemic corticosteroids for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2005; 1:CD001...

Selected Physical Characteristics of Medical Students.

The purpose of this study was to measure selected anthropometrical characteristics, motor abilities and cardiorespiratory functions of medical students. Eighty-seven students were involved in this investigation. The students were categorized into five groups: (1) recrea-tional, doing sport activities irregularly, (2) basketball and (3) handball players, having training at least two times per we...

Selected Medical and Social Problems of the Elderly

Time definition of this process is very difficult, because the life situation of an individual human being significantly changes its course. In the evaluation of the aging process of the elderly in addition to calendar age, which to a small extent determines the spiritual and physical human efficiency, the biological age and mental state together with the social situation should also be taken i...

Editorial: Selected Studies from Current Medical Informatics Research in Japan

This is the second Japanese issue of MIM, subsequent to the first publication last year [1-9]. We are very thankful to Prof. Haux, who gave us the chance to publish a Japanese Special Topic in Methods of Information in Medicine (MIM) again this year. We invited submissions for this current issue from the Japanese medical informatics community. Among quite a few papers submitted, we have careful...