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Viruses, Vol. 11, Pages 186: Chronic Hepatitis E in Rheumatology and Internal Medicine Patients: A Retrospective Multicenter European Cohort Study
Conclusion: Rheumatology and internal medicine patients, including patients treated with methotrexate without corticosteroids, are at risk of developing chronic HEV infection. Rheumatology and internal medicine patients with abnormal liver tests should be screened for HEV infection.
Source: Viruses - February 22, 2019 Category: Virology Authors: Sven Pischke Jean-Marie Peron Moritz von Wulffen Johann von Felden Christoph H öner zu Siederdissen Sophie Fournier Marc L ütgehetmann Christoph Iking-Konert Dominik Bettinger Gabriella Par Robert Thimme Alain Cantagrel Ansgar W. Lohse Heiner Wedemeyer Tags: Article Source Type: research

How Some Generic Drugs Could Do More Harm Than Good
For the 16 years that Dr. Brian Westerberg, a Canadian surgeon, worked volunteer missions at the Mulago National Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, scarcity was the norm. The patients usually exceeded the 1,500 allotted beds. Running water was once cut off when the debt-ridden hospital was unable to pay its bills. On some of his early trips, Westerberg even brought over drugs from Canada in order to treat patients. But as low-cost generics made in India and China became widely available through Uganda’s government and international aid agencies in the early 2000s, it seemed at first like the supply issue had been ...
Source: TIME: Health - May 17, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine Eban Tags: Uncategorized generic drugs medication medicine Source Type: news

Knowledge and perception on the transmission and control of SARS-COV-2 infection among allied radiation medicine professionals in Ghana
This study assessed the level of knowledge on SARS-COV-2 infection prevention, transmission and symptoms of COVID-19, as well as perceptions regarding prevention of SARS-COV-2 infection among allied radiation medicine professionals. Cross-sectional descriptive survey was carried out among 145 radiation medicine professionals in Ghana using facts on COVID-19 as presented on the website of the World Health Organization and data was analyzed based on weighted average indices. Overall, the extent of knowledge among allied radiation medicine professionals on the symptoms of COVID-19, transmission and control of SARS-COV-2 infec...
Source: Health and Technology - November 27, 2020 Category: Information Technology Source Type: research

Efficacy and Safety of Chinese Medicine Lianhua Qingwen for Treating COVID-19: An Updated meta-Analysis
The traditional Chinese medicine formula Lianhua Qingwen (LQ) combined with western medicine therapy is beneficial to coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), but there is still a lack of strong evidence-based. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the efficacy and safety of LQ combined with western medicine for patients with COVID-19. Seven databases (Chinese and English) were searched by two independent reviewers. Search for relevant keywords such as “Chinese medicine,” “Chinese herbal medicine,” and “Lianhua Qingwen” in the titles and abstracts of articles retrieved in the databases. Rando...
Source: Frontiers in Pharmacology - June 3, 2022 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research

Molecules, Vol. 27, Pages 5678: The Chemical and Pharmacological Research Progress on a Kind of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Fructus Malvae
Chao Liu Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, traditional Chinese medicine has played an important role in the treatment process. Furthermore, the discovery of artemisinin in Artemisia annua has reduced the incidence of malaria all over the world. Therefore, it is becoming urgent and important to establish a novel method of conducting systematic research on Chinese herbal medicine, improving the medicinal utilization value of traditional Chinese medicine and bringing great benefits to human health all over the world. Fructus Malvae, a kind of Chinese herbal medicine which has been recorded in the &ldqu...
Source: Molecules - September 2, 2022 Category: Chemistry Authors: Xiaoyu Li Xianglei Wang Menglu Zhao He Zhang Chao Liu Tags: Review Source Type: research

Evidence synthesis of Chinese medicine for monkeypox: Suggestions from other contagious pox-like viral diseases
Conclusion: Based on historical records and clinical studies of CM in managing contagious pox-like viral diseases, some botanical drugs could be an alternative approach for treating and preventing human monkeypox. Prospective, rigorous clinical trials are urgently needed to confirm the potential preventive and treatment effect of Chinese herbal formulas.Systematic Review Registration: [https://inplasy.com/], identifier [INPLASY202270013].
Source: Frontiers in Pharmacology - March 13, 2023 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research

What 1989 And The Golden Girls Tell Us About Medicine Today
Today, 1989 may be most associated with Taylor Swift: It is the album that won her a second Grammy for Album of the Year. Not only that, it happens to be the year Swift was born--such a long, long time ago! People under 35 have no personal memory of 1980s pop culture, which is ironic since Swift's album in part pays homage to it. In the real 1989 (no offense to Swift and the 10 co-producers who made the album), all sorts of revolutions took place: Mr. Gorbachev tore down that pesky wall, for example. America's greatest antagonist, the Soviet Union, collapsed in 1989. Brazil conducted its first democratic presidential ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Ethics of Outbreaks Position Statement. Part 1: Therapies, Treatment Limitations, and Duty to Treat
Objectives: Outbreaks of disease, especially those that are declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, present substantial ethical challenges. Here we start a discourse (with a continuation of the dialogue in Ethics of Outbreaks Position Statement. Part 2: Family-Centered Care) concerning the ethics of the provision of medical care, research challenges and behaviors during a Public Health Emergency of International Concern with a focus on the proper conduct of clinical or epidemiologic research, clinical trial designs, unregistered medical interventions (including vaccine introduction, devices, pharmace...
Source: Critical Care Medicine - October 13, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Special Articles Source Type: research

Clinical practice guidelines and experts ’ consensuses of traditional Chinese herbal medicine for novel coronavirus (COVID-19): protocol of a systematic review
The objective of this study will be to summarize the recommendations in current clinical practice guidelines about the use of traditional Chinese herbal medicine for COVID-19 patients. We will also evaluate and report on the methodological and reporting quality of these guidelines.MethodsIn this systematic review, we will search for guidelines, expert consensuses, and policy documents published since December 2019 in electronic databases (e.g., PubMed, EMBASE, and Chinese databases) and on websites of governments or organizations (e.g., The National Guideline Clearinghouse [NGC], Guidelines International Network [GIN], Nat...
Source: Systematic Reviews - August 2, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Leveraging knowledge of Asian herbal medicine and its active compounds as COVID-19 treatment and prevention
AbstractThe outbreak of COVID-19 disease has led to a search for effective vaccines or drugs. However, insufficient vaccine supplies to meet global demand and no effective approved prescribed drugs for COVID-19 have led some people to consider the use of alternative or complementary medicines, such as traditional herbal medicine. Medicinal plants have various therapeutic properties that depend on the active compounds they contain. Obviously, herbal medicine has had an essential role in treatment and prevention during COVID-19 outbreak, especially in Asian cultures. Hence, we reviewed the uses of herbal medicine in Asian cu...
Source: Journal of Natural Medicines - October 8, 2021 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research

The state of emergency care in the Republic of the Sudan
Publication date: June 2014 Source:African Journal of Emergency Medicine, Volume 4, Issue 2 Author(s): Nada Hassan A. A-Rahman , Gabrielle A. Jacquet Sudan is one of the largest African countries, covering an area of 1.9millionkm2—approximately one fifth of the geographic area of the United States. The population is 30million people, the majority of whom (68%) live in rural areas, as compared with the sub-Saharan African average of approximately 62%. Sudan is considered a lower-middle income country—with 47% of the population living below the poverty line and a gross domestic product (GDP) of US $62billion in 2010. I...
Source: African Journal of Emergency Medicine - October 12, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: research

Complementary and alternative medicine is expected to make greater contribution in controlling the prevalence of influenza.
Authors: Tao Z, Yang Y, Shi W, Xue M, Yang W, Song Z, Yao C, Yin J, Shi D, Zhang Y, Cai Y, Tong C, Yuan Y Abstract Influenza pandemics are a serious threat to public health in today's world. In the past 10 years, the outbreak of three forms of severe influenza--H5N1, H1N1, and H7N9--has caused tremendous loss of life and property. In order to better cope with pandemics, antivirals such as oseltamivir are being stockpiled in great quantities, placing a substantial burden on government budgets and potentially resulting in massive waste because of the uncertainty as to when an influenza pandemic will strike and whethe...
Source: BioScience Trends - December 1, 2014 Category: Biomedical Science Tags: Biosci Trends Source Type: research

Homeopathy: from tradition to science?
Abstract Homeopathy is a form of therapy based on the similarity (“similia similibus curantur”, like cures like), whose popularity is increasing but whose scientific basis is still under discussion. Starting from the premise that it is a “holistic” medicine, programmatically aimed at the whole person in its entirety and individuality, here we go through an overview of his history, basic concepts and scientific evidence. This therapy was founded by Samuel Hahnemann in the late 18th century, although similar concepts existed previously. It has spread around the world in the 19th century, in part because of i...
Source: Journal of Medicine and the Person - December 11, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research

Historical Review A forgotten epidemic that changed medicine: measles in the US Army, 1917–18
A US army-wide measles outbreak in 1917–18 resulted in more than 95 000 cases and more than 3000 deaths. An outbreak investigation implicated measles and streptococcal co-infections in most deaths, and also characterised a parallel epidemic of primary streptococcal pneumonia in soldiers without measles. For the first time, the natural history and pathogenesis of these diseases was able to be well characterised by a broad-interdisciplinary research effort with hundreds of military and civilian physicians and scientists representing disciplines such as internal medicine, pathology, microbiology, radiology, surgery, preve...
Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - June 9, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: David M Morens, Jeffery K Taubenberger Tags: Historical Review Source Type: research

Critical Care Medicine and Infectious Diseases: An Emerging Combined Subspecialty in the United States
The recent rise in unfilled training positions among infectious diseases (ID) fellowship programs nationwide indicates that ID is declining as a career choice among internal medicine residency graduates. Supplementing ID training with training in critical care medicine (CCM) might be a way to regenerate interest in the specialty. Hands-on patient care and higher salaries are obvious attractions. High infection prevalence and antibiotic resistance in intensive care units, expanding immunosuppressed host populations, and public health crises such as the recent Ebola outbreak underscore the potential synergy of CCM-ID trainin...
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases - July 29, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kadri, S. S., Rhee, C., Fortna, G. S., O'Grady, N. P. Tags: VIEWPOINTS Source Type: research