The number of people having a chronic disease is increasing. Telehealth may provide an alternative to traditional medicine as telehealth solutions have shown to have a positive influence on quality of live and to decrease the number of hospital visits. A new telehealth solution is the eWALL system. Previously, the eWALL interface application has been evaluated using participatory heuristic eval...

In light of the absence of guidelines and standards applicable to deployed military personnel, the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (USACHPPM) has completed Technical Guide 230A, Short-term Chemical Exposure Guidelines for Deployed Military Personnel. This guide provides estimated concentration levels associated with various types of effects for short-term exposures...

Purpose. To help integrate traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) into health systems, efforts are being made to educate biomedical doctors (BMD) and medical students on TCAM. We systematically evaluated the effect of TCAM education on BMD and medical students' attitude, knowledge, and behavior towards TCAM utilization and integration with biomedical medicine. Methods. Evalu...

CONTEXT Learning palpatory diagnosis is a challenge for many osteopathic medical students. The Virtual Haptic Back (VHB) is an aid in teaching and learning these skills. The device simulates the contours and surface compliances of the human back and allows these to be felt through haptic interfaces. Regions of abnormal tissue texture are simulated by altered surface compliance. OBJECTIVES To ...

BACKGROUND/AIM  Using reliable outcome measures is a necessity for the occupational therapy profession in enabling valid assessments of clients. Although Cronbach's alpha is the most widely applied index of internal consistency reliability, there are misconceptions about its use and interpretation. This paper aims to guide assessment developers in paediatric occupational therapy, as well as pra...

I read the recent publication on paracoccidioidomycosis and cancer with great interest.(1) Rodrigues et al. concluded that a diagnosis of paracoccidiodomycosis increases the risk for lung cancer.(1) Indeed, there have been some previous reports on this issue. It is accepted that paracoccidioidomycosis can be an important overlapping infection in patients with cancer.(2) However, I have some com...

The medical and psychological effects of deployment do not necessarily dissipate once the deployment is over. Service members and their families make significant, though incompletely understood, sacrifices during deployment and may need to make major readjustments after the deployment ends. This is not a new phenomenon, but it has been much better illuminated in the wake of the Persian Gulf War.

Before these Marines arrived in Southwest Asia for the Persian Gulf War, an impressive amount of planning and coordination had been done by preventive medicine professionals on their behalf. The health threats facing these Marines had been assessed, plans had been made to counteract those threats, and systems had been put into place to monitor their health status during and after the deployment...

BACKGROUND The growth of "big data" and the emphasis on patient-centered health care have led to the increasing use of two key technologies: personalized medicine and digital medicine. For these technologies to move into mainstream health care and be reimbursed by insurers, it will be essential to have evidence that their benefits provide reasonable value relative to their costs. These technolo...

The book covers such things as definitions, cost, safety, regulation, legal and ethical issues and a range of practical issues, diagnostic techniques, and risk-benefit assessments of complementary therapies and medicines. The main part of the book is organized by condition, outlining for each the CAM treatments available, ranked according to level of evidence of effectiveness, followed by a con...