Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) is the most frequently encountered genetic steroid disorder affecting fertility. Steroid hormones play a crucial role in sexual development and reproductive function; patients with either 21- hydroxylase or 11β-hydroxylase deficiency thus face immense challenges to their fertility. Given the relevance of CAH in reproductive medicine as well as the diagnostic...

The academic discipline of social medicine has struggled to fi nd a precise definition for over a century. This struggle is exemplified by the classic social medicine course book, The Social Medicine Reader, edited by faculty from the Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, which offers an expansive view of social medicine’s concerns [1–4]. These concerns...

The classic approach in clinical medicine and medical research has been to evaluate how to treat a specifi c illness or disease using various study designs to compare treatments and possibly sophisticated statistical analyses to explain effects that take into account confounding factors. Examples from infectious disease and trauma research provide excellent examples of how this approach has bee...

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Background Depression is one of the five most-common diseases globally, and is expected to be the second leading cause of disability by 2020 and its economic and social burden is a major problem worldwide. Objective The aim of this research was to elucidate the causes and symptoms of depression according to Persian Medicine (PM) and classic medicine. Methods In this study, works that were i...

Evolutionary computation is becoming common in the solution of difficult, realworld problems in industry, medicine, and defense. This paper reviews some of the practical advantages to using evolutionary algorithms as compared with classic methods of optimization or artificial intelligence. Specific advantages include the flexibility of the procedures, as well as the ability to self-adapt the se...

The classic texts of Indian origin record the influence of Mantras on plants and animals. Ayurveda also recognises the importance of this realm of medicine. The author during his various experiments on plants found that these from the stage of seedling to the maturity are effected by certain types of sound waves, especially the Mantras. This study reveals that the plants have shown a positive r...

2011 marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of Gonigle’s groundbreaking study Poverty and Public Health (1936). Despite being one of the first major expositions of social medicine, it is now largely forgotten. This editorial attempts to correct this neglect by paying tribute to M’Gonigle as a public health pioneer. It outlines his life and summarises his classic work. It concludes by hig...

Objectives: Until now, the guideline of Vietnam Ministry Health and several pieces research have confirmed effectiveness traditional medicine in managing Covid-19, especially for mild levels. However, on differentiating disease patterns Covid-19 to systemise diagnosis treatment has not been implemented. Thence, this study aimed establish diagnostic criteria clinical forms using latent tree mode...