Transfusion medicine: Overtime paradigm changes and emerging paradoxes

Transcendent Medicine and Deep Medicine Paradigm

Background: Very recently, Eric Topol, a physician-scientist, introduced his “deep medicine” theory in 2019. This theory has been originated from the last two decades advancements of systems medicine and digital medicine, science and technology convergence in biological fields and formation of the precision medicine. The transcendent medicine theory that has been derived from Sadr ad-Din Shiraz...

Psychedelic medicine: a re-emerging therapeutic paradigm.

Manual medicine diversity: research pitfalls and the emerging medical paradigm.

Recent studies published in leading medical journals have concluded that chiropractic treatment is not particularly helpful for relieving asthma and migraine symptoms because even though study participants showed notable improvement in symptoms, those subjects who received sham manual medicine treatments also showed improvement. Yet the sham treatment received by control groups in these studies...

Babesia: An Emerging Infectious Threat in Transfusion Medicine

Babesiosis is an emerging zoonosis caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Babesia. The disease is endemic primarily in the Northeast and upper Midwestern United States. The genus Babesia comprises multiple species of apicomplexan parasites that infect red cells of many vertebrate hosts. Babesia divide and replicate in the hosts’ red blood cells and are called piroplasms due to their pear-sh...

Climate changes and emerging fungal infections

Background: Candida auris is a globally emerging yeast pathogen that has shown not only resistance to most anti-fungal drugs but also thermo-tolerance to temperatures higher than the mammalian’s body temperature. Although it has been only a decade since the fungus was identified, its spread of infections has been rapid and quasi-epidemics have been reported. Co-occurrences of the fungus infecti...