Of 367 respondents to a survey of Asian-American members of the American Psychiatric Association, fewer than 16% were American-born U.S. medical graduates, and 41% of the patients treated by this sample were minority group members. These findings have important implications for training. Asian psychiatrists have recently emerged as the largest ...

South American Indians have used coca leaf as a remedy for thousands of years. Coca might be useful as a treatment for gastrointestinal ailments and motion sickness, as a fast-acting antidepressant medication, as a substitute stimulant for coffee in certain cases, and as an adjunct in programs of weight reduction ...

The numbers of precoccygeal vertebrae (PCV) are compared in Southern African Negroes, Bushman (San) and American Negroes. The S.A. Negro and San males have an exceptionally high frequency of an increased total PCV number whilst the frequencies are significantly lower in a combined Caucasoid sample and the Mongoloid samples. The ...

The President of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) discusses the many elements that appear to restrict the professional activities of neurosurgeons and other physicians. He stresses the importance of the active role required of the AANS, the American Medical Association, and the American College of Surgeons in finding ...

In an early case of cochlear hydrops, the symptoms of a mild pressure sensation or fullness in the involved ear may be mistaken for a blocked eustachian tube. More severe cases demonstrate a true sensori-neutral hearing loss that fluctuates. Tinnitis is usually present during the attack and will often subside ...

The author provides a summary of developments in peer review and Professional Standards Review Organizations (PSROs) within APA, the federal government, and the American Medical Association between June 1974 and June 1975. He discusses the reaction of the medical profession to the interim guidelines from the U.S. Department of Health, ...

Although there were relatively few dermatologists in the United States in the years 1870 to 1920, San Francisco was well represented by the nine dermatologists who were active in the city during that time. These included George J. Bucknall, Alfred E. Regensburger, Douglass W. Montgomery, Howard Morrow, Harry E. Alderson, ...

Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2007.

This patient information leaflet, produced by the American Podiatric Medical Association, provides information about arthritis in the foot. The leaflet explains what arthritis is, and discusses the causes, symptoms, different forms of arthritis (osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and gout), diagnosis, and treatment.

Medem is a joint venture between some of America's leading Medical Societies aiming to provide comphrehensive, current, authoritative health care information for the general public. The US national medical societies involved in this project include the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Allergy, ...

One in a series of illustrated patient information fact sheets that address cardiovascular treatments and tests, produced by the American Heart Association (AHA). This fact sheet discusses anticoagulants and antiplatelet medications (medicines that reduce blood clotting in an artery, vein, or the heart) and covers warfarin, heparin, aspirin, and adverse ...

The website of the American Veterinary Medical Foundation (AVMF), which was formed in 1963 by the American Veterinary Medical Association. The AVMF is involved in the promotion of animal health and well-being and in continuing veterinary medical education and science. Programmes and activities directly aimed at veterinarians include clinic displays, ...

This document on canine influenza was produced by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) during December 2005. The document outlines the causative agents, natural distribution, transmission, clinical signs and symptoms, diagnosis, prevention and control measures, and morbidity and mortality associated with canine influenza.

The website of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) whose aim is to advance the science and art of veterinary medicine. AVMA is a not-for-profit association representing more than 74,000 veterinarians. This site contains an extensive collection of resources for the veterinary profession, AVMA members and the general public. There ...

JAMIA is the official journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), a non-profit organisation with a varied membership drawn from health care professionals, academics and librarians. The website offers tables of contents data and abstracts for JAMIA from Vol.1 (1994) to date, the full text being available to members ...

This article, from the Nora Institute for Surgical Patient Safety, American College of Surgeons (May 2008) provides highlights of a report on medical tourism. Medical tourism is here defined as being "a catch phrase that has been given to the notion of travelling internationally to obtain needed medical services." The ...

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is a US based non-profit organisation formed in 1990 by the merger of three organisations - the American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics (AAMSI), the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), and the Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care (SCAMC). The AMIA ...

American physicians markedly undertreat severe pain based on an irrational and undocumented fear that appropriate use will lead patients to become addicts. Such irrational fear-opiophobia-resists educational intervention as phobic fears resist rational explanation and exploration. Because this phobia has become fixed in the customary behavior of physicians, it is particularly ...

Resolution 43 (1987 Annual Meeting), adopted by the House of Delegates, resolved that the American Medical Association study the dangers associated with clove cigarettes, that policy recommendations regarding regulation of clove and other tobacco additives be developed, and that this information be made available to physicians and the public. Clove ...

During the past 50 years, medical science has transformed the quality of life of millions of people. The marvels of modern medicine enter mainstream conversation on a regular basis, however, some subjects remain neglected, and the urinary bladder is one of them.

For the purpose of developmental evaluation of growing children and the nutritional assessment of individuals or populations, reliance on current North American standards for size, maturational timing, body fatness or osseous development may be unwise not only with respect to various African, Asiatic and Pacific populations but often with respect ...

Formal medical publication began in the United States with The Medical Repository in 1797. Between 1741, the date of the first American magazine, and 1797 medical articles were included in general magazines. This study deals with ten representative magazines and reviews their general content. The varying content of the medical ...

Almost every doctor who visits England comes back wanting to write an article or give a speech about socialized medicine. Because there has been so much said so many times on the subject, it has lost much of its interest.Yet, the headquarters of the California Academy of General Practice in ...