Evidence - based CAM: Where does it stand?

Traditional medicine: Where does it stand?

While earth is becoming a smaller village every day, the rapid population growth and ageing is impeding obvious shifting pattern of disease which in turn is inflecting great economic burden required for fast growing health expenditure particularly in the developing world whose suffering from this particular issue is turning into an inflated almost non-curable disease. The major world population...

Traditional medicine: Where does it stand?

While earth is becoming a smaller village every day, the rapid population growth and ageing is impeding obvious shifting pattern of disease which in turn is inflecting great economic burden required for fast growing health expenditure particularly in the developing world whose suffering from this particular issue is turning into an inflated almost non-curable disease. The major world population...

Imaging-Based Volumetry of the Liver: Where Does It Stand?

Alkali therapy for neonates: where does it stand today?

The first report of the therapeutic intravenous use of sodium bicarbonate has been attributed by Kaehny and Anderson(l) to Thomas Latta who reported the practice of intravenous injections of bicarbonate (NaHCO3) and chloride into patients with cholera in 1832(2). Since the commercial availability of NaHCO3 for medical use in the late 1950s, there have been continuing efforts to clarify aspects ...

PubMed perspective of family medicine research: where does it stand?

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to obtain a view of family medicine research by analyzing PubMed citations from 1960-2003. METHOD Family practice (FP) citations in PubMed from 1960 to 2003 were downloaded in MEDLINE format. This was written into relation database using 'PubMed Grabber/Analyzer' software developed at University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. Search Query Language (SQL) and online...