The fundamental aim of healthcare is to improve overall health the population by providing state-of-the-art for individuals at an affordable cost. foundation this system largely referred as “evidence-based medicine”. Too often, evidence-based medicine based solely on so-called “best research evidence”, collected through randomized controlled trials while disregarding clinical expertise and pati...

Consciousness-based medicine is our term for a form of medical treatment that works by direct appeal to the consciousness of the patient, in contrast to modern biomedical treatment where drugs are used to affect body chemistry. With this concept, maybe we are (in a sense) turning back to the "old medicine", where the family physician was the all-concerned "old country doctor" who knew the child...

elderly population. The subgroup analysis of the NSABP C-07 trial showed a trend towards better disease-free survival in patients younger than age 70 (hazard ratio, 0.80; 95% confidence interval, 0.68 to 0.95; P = 0.013), but no positive effect was evident in older patients with the addition of oxaliplatin to the FL regimen [10]. Even the NCCN guideline recommended that the oxaliplatinbased reg...

conclusions: the presented food-based strategies in this study introduce a precise management for depression benefiting from iranian traditional medicine resources. background: considering the increasing prevalence of depression in contemporary societies, general tendency for safer treatments with fewer side effects has recently been a subject of interest. objectives: food-based strategies, whi...

It is surely obvious that medicine, like any other rational activity, must be based on evidence. The interest is in the details: how exactly are the general principles of the logic of evidence to be applied in medicine? Focussing on the development, and current claims of the ‘Evidence-Based Medicine’ movement, this article raises a number of difficulties with the rationales that have been suppl...