Preventive pulmonary medical education.

Preventive Pulmonary Medical Education*

(Chest 1991; 100:487-93) ung diseases are among the leading causes of death in the United States today. Much work remains in order to reduce morbidity and mortality due to preventable respiratory diseases. Recent documents released by the Surgeon General, the US Public Health Service, and expert medical committees tinderscore the need for today’s physicians to become practitioners of preventive...

Early and late preventive effect of Nigella sativa on the bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in rats: An experimental study

Objective: Pulmonary fibhrosis is a disease of the connective tissues in the respiratory system. Nigella sativa has been used for the treatment of pulmonary diseases like asthma. This study investigated the early and late preventive effect of methanolic extract of N. sativa on a bleomycin- induced pulmonary fibrosis model. Materials and Methods: This study was carried out using 52 rats. Pulmona...

No association between residential exposure to petrochemicals and brain tumor risk.

Occupational Health Program and Exposure, Epidemiology, and Risk Program, Department of Environmental Health, Department of Biostatistics, and Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health; Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Geography, National Changhua University of...

Transformation and trends in preventive and social medicine education at the undergraduate level in a Brazilian medical school.

In the present study we discuss some transformations in undergraduate training in Preventive and Social Medicine in the Department of Social Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeiro Preto, University of So Paulo, from 1993 to 1999. Aspects of the relationship between medical training and the reorganization of local services of the Brazilian national health system, and between graduate tea...

The preventive medicine milestone project: public health and general preventive medicine.