INTRODUCTION Since the beginnings of the modern era, medicine has evolved tremendously. Merely two hundred years ago, American and European medical treatments were generally provided by independent physicians who went from home to home to offer their services. From this form of medicine, often referred to as " bedside medicine " , (1) Western countries started to move towards a more centralized...

The need for evidence-based decision making in immunization programs has increased due to the presence of multiple health priorities, limited human resources, expensive vaccines, and limited funds. Countries should establish a group of national experts to advise their Ministries of Health. So far, many nations have formed their own National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups (NITAGs). In th...

Sport is one of the essential elements of life today. Ifs value in the prevention of illness should not be under estimated. Sports medicine also has an important part to play in the selection, guidance and supervision of competitive athletes, but it is concerned, above all, with public hygiene and the prevention of ill-health. Sports medicine, like occupational medicine, has an increasing role ...

A Faculty of Veterinary Science within the University of Queensland was constituted by University statutes early in 1936 and Dr H R Seddon, Director of Veterinary Research in New South Wales, was appointed to the newly-established Chair of Veterinary Science (Seddon 1951). At the outset, it was decided that the course should be of five years duration and although a sound clinical training would...

The Permanente Journal/ Fall 2001/ Volume 5 No. 4 Abstract Context: Use of hypnosis in medical practice has long been controversial, but recent developments in medical hypnosis—in particular, the understanding that the power of hypnosis resides mainly in the patient—have profound implications for treatment. Objective: To illustrate and explain the therapeutically useful application of hypnosis ...

TO THE EDITOR: Drs. Lepers and colleagues (1) have written an interesting commentary in response to our recently published paper (2) on aerobic power in octogenarian athletes and healthy untrained age-matched men. Our primary intent was to evaluate aerobic potential at the whole body and myocellular level to gain more insight into the health benefits of lifelong endurance exercise in individual...

taminated water; however, he is quick to point out that experimental subjects have been fed cholera vibrio organisms without developing disease. There are many factors needed, other than the causative organism, to effect an epidemic. Dr. Dubos casts his lot with the forces of Hygeia, preventive medicine, rather than those of Asclepius, curative medicine, as those which have the greater achievem...

Clinical epidemiology, the what, was introduced by John Paul in 1938, as a new basic science for preventive medicine. Its definition subsequently took on a more bedside tone, but continues to be adapted to the needs of its practitioners. Clinical epidemiology, the who, centers on Alvan Feinstein and the way that he led the field and nurtured so many of its practitioners. Clinical epidemiology, ...

This text is an analysis of a preventive medical work, Liber de conservanda sanitate, composed in the thirteenth century by the Portuguese physician and doctor, Peter of Spain (?1210-1277). His work enables us to look at the conceptions of health and hygiene and understand the social role of university physicians in medieval preventive medicine. The work constantly displays the notion of the ba...

To facilitate the guideline-based implementation of treatment recommendations in the ambulatory setting and to encourage participation in the multiple preventive health efforts that exist, we have organized several recent guideline updates into a simple ABCDEF approach. We would remind clinicians that evidence-based medicine is meant to inform recommendations but that synthesis of patient-speci...