This article, hosted by the American broadcaster PBS, concerns the 'placebo effect' (the health improvement caused by the anticipation of curative effect of a medicine, where that medicine has no direct curative effect) and the attempts to explain it within neuroscience. The article also discuss the scientific method. This article ...

"Safety, quality, efficacy: regulating medicines in the UK" is a 60 page report prepared and published by the National Audit Office (NAO) in January 2003. The report analyses the way in which the Medicines Control Agency (MCA) regulates medicines for sale or supply in the UK, and covers public health ...

This Scubamed site has been complied by Underwater Medical Associates (UMA); an educational organisation devoted to diving medicine. Included here are a number of articles about medical disorders and diving, some questions and answers on diving medicine, diving physics and physiology articles, medical essays for physicians and other health care ...

This 36-page document is the WHO Model List (15th Edition, revised March 2007) of minimum medicine needs for a basic health care system, listing the most efficacious, safe and cost effective medicines for priority conditions. The document also includes a complementary list of essential medicines for priority diseases, the use ...

This briefing document was produced and is published on the Web by the National Office of Animal Health (NOAH), which represents the UK animal medicine industry and aims to provide safe, effective, and quality medicines for the treatment and welfare of all animals. This document covers the current procedures and ...

This fact sheet on the widespread use of antimicrobials outside human medicine and the resultant antimicrobial resistance, was produced and published on the Web by the World Health Organization (WHO). This fact sheet covers the scale of antimicrobial use outside of human medicine and discusses antimicrobial use in food animals, ...

This statement was prepared from published and unpublished contributions to a national forum on the scope and responsibility of medicine recently conducted by California Medicine. The editors hope this distillate of the discussions will prove useful to the profession and to the public, and they also wish to express their ...

To engender discussion of what the scope and responsibility of medicine ought to be in today's society, California Medicine printed in its June issue six essays by authors known to have keen if various interest in the subject.In presenting the essays the editors expressed hope that they would be the ...

To engender discussion of what the scope and responsibility of medicine ought to be in today's society, California Medicine printed in its June issue six essays by authors known to have keen if various interest in the subject.In presenting the essays the editors expressed hope that they would be the ...

To engender discussion of what the scope and responsibility of medicine ought to be in today's society, California Medicine printed in its June issue six essays by authors known to have keen if various interest in the subject.In presenting the essays the editors expressed hope that they would be the ...

The reaction to modern medicine and the general health of the new immigrants and Arab populations of Israel are described. The material was gathered during a threemonth visit to Israel where the author participated in the medical care of these persons. While these peoples still share many of the traditional ...

Forensic medicine is medicine as applied to the problems of the law. The origins of both are hidden in the mists of antiquity, dating from the beginnings of family and tribal life. Recorded human history goes back for 6000 years. Sumeria, Babylon and Egypt all contributed to the development of ...

Fundamental physical aspects of scanning the human body to determine in vivo radioisotope distribution are discussed, with special reference to the importance of collimator design and data display system. The pertinent details of a sensitive whole body scanner which has proved useful in clinical practice are described. The main features ...

By this paper I have tried to figure out why the pharmaceutical medicines get to hard in Bangladesh though Bangladesh practice TRIPS waiver. As a member of least- developed country, Bangladesh has a transitional period until 1st January 2016 to bring its patent regime with TRIPS by granting patent protection ...