Dr Guarneri: We chose the name because an Academy is the large umbrella for the work we'll do. So, it is more than a name change—it is broadening our purpose and mission. Let me explain. The AIHM will bring together the global integra-tive holistic care community of providers—from advanced practice nurses to MDs to DOs to DCs to NDs to traditional Eastern medicine practitioners. A clini-cian wh...

The fields of psychiatry and neuroscience have formed a close relationship over the past decades. Hypotheses about the neurochemical basis of behavioral dysfunction helped in part to develop promising treatments for several psychiatric disorders, including depression, addiction and schizophrenia. In addition to advancing the neurochemical approach to psychiatric disorders, the relationship betw...

several techniques and materials have been introduced for the treatment of gingival recession defects. this article reports the case of a 43-year old female patient with chief complaint of esthetic problem, presenting multiple gingival recession defects in anterior maxilla. cenoderm combined with coronally positioned flap was used for management of six teeth with gingival recession. complete ro...

12 Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are in the same family as the organisms that cause tuberculosis and leprosy, but unlike those organisms, NTM are widely dispersed in our environment, vary greatly in their ability to cause disease, and are not spread from person to person. There are about 140 different species of mycobacteria. Mycobacteria not closely related to tuberculosis or leprosy are c...

The application of somatic stem cells has been shown to support the recovery of the myocardium in end-stage heart failure. A novel method for the intraoperative isolation and labeling of bone marrow-derived stem cells was established. After induction of general anesthesia, up to 400 mL of bone marrow were harvested from the posterior iliac crest and processed in the operating room under good ma...

Cefoxitin interferes with determination of urinary 17-hydroxycorticosteroids. The apparent concentration of hormone is increased from three- to 10-fold in samples from patients receiving cefoxitin when the Amberlite XAD-2 "Clini-Skreen" column is used. To determine the mechanism of interference, we reacted aqueous solutions of cefoxitin, cortisol, cortisone, and 11-deoxycortisol with phenylhydr...

Sir, Clozapine was introduced in India with much fanfare in May 1995. Presently, there are three accepted indications for clozapine therapy: treatment resistant schizophrenia, intolerance to neuroleptic drugs and tardive dyskinesia (Marder and Van Putten, 1988). The pharmaceutical industry is a powerful lobby and it is therefore likely that clozapine will be enthusiastically used for these indi...

It is well established that clinical education (CE) is a vital part of entry into practice training for physiotherapy students. This form of education depends on the willingness of clinicians to take on a supervisory or instructor role. Educational programmes are increasingly being challenged to find quality placements, and larger class sizes are putting further demands on these already scarce ...

Biomedical engineering is a very significant research field which bridges the gap between the fundamental engineering knowledge and technology, and clinical practice and application. It includes a broad range of topics, both established and groundbreaking, from biomaterials to tissue engineering and cell engineering; from biomechanics to biomedical physics; from biomedical electronics to biomed...