Mounting evidence supports the need for more primary care physicians to care for an expanding, aging, and insured population. The U.S. primary care physician workforce is composed of graduates from both domestic and international medical schools. Trends in training, recruitment, and practice have policy and ethical implications. We used the American Medical Association Physician Masterfile to e...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Currently, herbal preparations are clinically used as functional food, food supplements or as add on therapy, which affects the bioavailability and also the net therapeutic potential of co-administered allopathic drugs. Therefore, it is important to assess the interaction among these two classes of drugs. Here we studied the interaction between orally-administered ethano...

Background: Candida albicans, accounts for more than 75% of all Candidal infections. Apart from its growing prevalence, it is also one the most resistant strains against antifungal medication. Homoeopathy an alternative to allopathic medication and has shown inhibiting fungal growth. Objective: This study was determine effectiveness homoeopathic tinctures medications versus Ketoconazole in grow...

Barriers to International Recognition Although DOs practice in all 50 states and in every medical specialty,6 the osteopathic medical profession is officially separate from the allopathic medical (ie, MD) profession. The distinction is based on the additional 200 hours of osteopathic coursework required of osteopathic medical students7 with an otherwise complete overlap in the biomedical scienc...

BACKGROUND While international literature on rural retention is expanding, there is a lack of research on relevant strategies from pluralistic healthcare environments such as India, where alternate medicine is an integral component of primary care. In such contexts, there is a constant tug of war in national policy on "Which health worker is needed in rural areas?" and "Who can, realistically, ...

Objective: The main aim of the survey was to assess diabetes treatment-related myths prevalent in Indian population and if COVID-19 pandemic improved their knowledge about diabetes. Results: completed by 309 participants; 66% did not have responses people with those without were similar. Survey results total showed that majority believed treatment should start early (92.6%); 87.4% within three ...