BACKGROUND There is a growing public interest in complementary and alternative treatments. The attitudes and perceptions regarding herbal therapies have not been evaluated amongst physicians-in-training. OBJECTIVE This pilot study aimed to assess the self-perceived competence and attitudes of physicians-in-training in dealing with herbal medicines in clinical practice. METHODS A survey was ...

45 Geospatial Analysis of Land Loss, Land Cover Change, and Landuse Patterns of Kutubdia Island, Bangladesh; Munshi K. Rahman, Center for Sustainability, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA Thomas W. Schmidlin, Geography Department, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA Mandy J. Munro-Stasiuk, Geography Department, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA Andrew Curtis, Geography Department, ...

Recent debates in radical geography seem determined to be oppositional and in so doing simplify what is at stake. We need to celebrate and maintain the openness of geography to multiple perspectives while simultaneously developing more actionorientated, hopeful ways forward. Anarchist perspectives hold plenty of promise for radical geography, but only if we critically interrogate its principles...

1. Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA 2. Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA 3. Department of Geography, San Diego State University, USA 4. Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, USA 5. Institute of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems, Peking University, China 6. Centre for eResea...

The prevalence of herbal medicine use during pregnancy is between 7% and 55%, depending upon the geographic area surveyed and the surveyed group's socio-cultural aspects and ethnicity. Why are women taking natural health products (NHPs) in pregnancy? Women who learn they are pregnant are concerned about the safety of their fetus and may turn to NHPs rather than prescription medication. Use of N...

Owing to the increase in price of cigarettes in Korea, herbal cigarettes have received increasing attention as a non-smoking aid; however, its safety has hardly been studied. We analyzed some of the toxic components in the mainstream smoke of herbal cigarettes, performed a mutagenicity test on smoke condensates for safety assessment, and compared the results with the corresponding values of a g...

In my first progress report (Yeung, 2000a) I concluded that a more pluralistic industrial geography in recent years has gone beyond conventional economic issues by incorporating some ‘new’ economic knowledges and by providing good glimpses of alternative worlds of industrial change. This incorporation relates to the introduction of social and cultural understandings of conventional economic iss...