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Medicine from Ancient China

(Traditional Chinese medicine, 2000). But it declined from the end of the Ming Dynasty until 1949, when the Chinese government "b...

Managed Care Power and Its Effects

staff or group model HMOs would provide all health care by the mid-1990s, but, in actuality, such HMOs have been declining in numb...

The Medicine of the Ancient Greeks

to promote schools, schools where medical pursuits were blended with the ecclesiastical (Draper, 1992). These schools would ultima...

Developing New Medicines through Neural Networks and Expert Systems' Pattern Recognition and Diagnostic Abilities

a number of technological developments, computers have not only become integral components of daily life, but they have also been ...

Overview of Homeopathic Medicine

a natural and interactive manner, while at the same time working toward prevention. While the Medical Association has typically h...

Medicine Evolution and Physicians

When we explore Greek medicine we are immediately immersed in the works of such notable ancient Greek philosophers as Homer, Arist...

Medicine and Artificial Intelligence

beneficial in considering their application for prediction models and medical research. Reflecting on the utility of these system...

Advantages and Disadvantages of Socialized Medicine in America

own economic self-interests, and unfortunately, this does not necessarily mean that their actions are in the best interest of the ...

Force and William Carlos Williams' 'The Use of Force'

of nature and the unveiling of secrets; a theme which is well illustrated in The Use of Force. As Johnson (2004) notes, the narrat...

Occupational Drug Testing of Employees

have enacted certain laws on their own which sometimes provide for testing in a much wider arena. Consider Idaho as an example. ...

Contract Payment Alternatives and HMOs

same basic framework. If specific fees are determined contractually and the HMO remains solvent, then there is little risk associ...

Herbal Medicine and Environmental Pollution

the effects of carcinogens and toxins (p. 88). Canadian scientists have found that algin, although non-digestible in an of itself...

Genetic Research, Trend Towards Personalized Medicine

envisioned as means to optimize care, taking it to a new level of quality. The technologies associated with this trend have result...

Evidence Based Practice and Chiropractic Practice

in the 1980s by a "group of medical educators at McMasters University in Ontario, Canada" (Haneline 2007, p. 3). This group made t...

The Health Care Industry and the Topic of Waste

at wasteful spending as well as waste in terms of paperwork that clogs the health care system and increases costs across the board...

Modern and Ancient Medicine

strategies to support improved health along with pharmacological interventions. The ancient Egyptians introduced some treatment...

Nuclear Medicine and Its Uses

the era of nuclear medicine. The development of nuclear medicine has taken off in recent decades, with broad reaching implication...

Issues in Chinese Medicine and Medicinal Nutrition

and Ping, 2011). As with TCM practices, such as acupuncture, CMM is gaining attention worldwide, and much of this attention focuse...

Hippocrates and Influence of Greek Medicine

As Hippocrates father, Heraclides, was a physician, it is likely that he was his sons first instructor in medicine (Jankowski, 201...

Is Walking Beneficial for Human Health?

day. Rather than scheduling in daily walks, they try to increase their ordinary walking in the course of doing their daily tasks. ...

Death and Brain Death Criteria

In five pages this paper examines death and what constitutes brain death as considered by John Arras and Bonnie Steinbock in Ethic...

Medical Profession and Handling Errors

In five pages John Arras and Bonnie Steinbock's Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine is used in a consideration of how a medical prof...

Revolutions in Science and Technology

While it is true that Fleming noted the effect of this substance on bacterial growth, the discovery entirely by chance, as Fleming...

Massage as a Complimentary Medicine

an overview of the issues that surround massage and the literature that support the fact that it is an effective approach in the t...

The ‘Biology’ of Cloning: Its Importance and Potential Impacts

Today, plant research scientists accomplish cloning through the manipulation of a limited number of vectors. The Ti plasmid (a pl...

Chinese Culture and Health Beliefs

is the concept of Qi, which refers to the idea that there is an energy that flows from the surface of the body to the internal org...

THE QUESTION OF CULTURE: LIA LEE, THE HMONG AND WESTERN MEDICINE

on p. 262 of her book. "However, I have come to believe that her life was ruined not by septic shock or noncompliant parents but b...

The Social Issue Of Health And Mental Health

concern for hospital executives is the fact that as managed care contracts increase, hospital marketing orientation decreases. Ma...

BUNDLED PAYMENTS AND CHANGE IN HEALTH CARE DELIVERY

This 10-page paper discusses how bundled payments might impact health care delivery in rehabilitation and physical medicine while ...

Medicinal Marijuana

dangerous or physically addictive. Of course, there is some debate about the safety of marijuana. Curtis claims that the FDA will...