Modern medicine has made life more comfortable‚ and humans are living longer‚ healthier lives thanks to discoveries like penicillin to treat bacterial infections and vaccines to prevent deadly diseases like diphtheria‚ tuberculosis and tetanus. In 1920 there were 206‚000 reported cases of diphtheria‚ and of those 15‚520 deaths were reported. Between the years of 2004 to 2008 there were no reported deaths related to diphtheria. The first vaccine to treat diphtheria was created in 1921‚ but not widely
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years‚ there have been many debates over whether holistic or conventional medicine is the more reliable type of treatment for a patient. Holistic medicine‚ also called Naturopathy‚ is the art and science of treating the whole person: body‚ mind‚ and soul. Some different holistic practices are acupuncture‚ chiropractic care‚ herbal and vitamin therapy‚ and massage therapy. Conventional medicine‚ also called Allopathic medicine‚ is the practice of using drugs‚ radiation‚ or surgery to treat symptoms
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Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one A review of the sales‚ costs and profit projections for a new product to find out whether they satisfy the company’s objectives refers to which one of the following concepts? ► Business feasibility ► Feasibility study ► Business analysis ► Product acceptance Question No: 6 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one After concept testing‚ a firm would engage in which stage for developing and marketing a new product? ► Marketing strategy development ► Business analysis
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INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE It’s not every day that you hear a medical doctor suggest that lifestyle changes can be a form of treatment that can reverse -- not just help prevent -- many of the most common and costly chronic diseases‚ including heart disease‚ prostate cancer and Type 2 diabetes. But that is exactly the message -- hard-earned through 35 years of scientific research -- that Dean Ornish‚ M.D.‚ best-selling author and HuffPost’s medical editor‚ communicated in his recent keynote address at
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Nuclear Medicine Nuclear medicine has been around for more than 50 years now and stems from the discovery of x-rays and artificial radioactivity. In 1946‚ nuclear medicine made a monumental breakthrough when radioactive iodine led to the complete disappearance of cancer in a patient’s thyroid. Nuclear medicine became widely used in the 1950’s to measure the function of the thyroid‚ to diagnose thyroid disease‚ and for the treatment of patients with hyperthyroidism. By the 1970’s nuclear medicine was
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Factors Affecting Physician’s Behavior to Prescribe Generic Medicines in Pharmaceutical sector in egypt By Mohamed Helal Al-Siufy Supervised by Dr. Ramy William This paper was submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (MBA) At Victoria School of Management Switzerland March 2014 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 OVERVIEW Researchers argue that generics became widely prescribed by physicians especially since
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Applications of Biotechnology in Medicine Overview of the applications of biotechnology in medicine that will be dealt here: 1. Gene Therapy 2. Pharmacogenomics 3. Genetic Testing 4. Cloning What is Biotechnology? Biotechnology can broadly be defined as the art of understanding and manipulating living organisms’ genes (code of life) and their products for the production of food‚ medicine‚ drink‚ or for other benefits or useful purposes to mankind and other organisms. Basically
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UAE students estranged from medical specialties! The medical and health studies nowadays considered as repellent specialties‚ only few students join them that has affected negatively in the health sector level services and the number of the national medical cadres in the UAE. When we searched about this phenomenon we found that the reasons are referenced to the different stages of the student’s life. In the childhood the kid dreams to be a doctor so why these dreams are goes with wind. Today
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World Health Organization (WHO)‚ herbal medicines refers to health practices‚ approaches‚ knowledge and beliefs incorporating plant‚ animal and mineral based medicines‚ spiritual therapies‚ manual techniques and exercises‚ applied singularly or in combination to treat‚ diagnose and prevent illnesses or to maintain well-being. Different types of herbal medicines are widely applied in Asia‚ Africa‚ and Latin America to meet primary health-care needs. Herbal medicines have maintained its popularity in most
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NANOTECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE Eucario Bakale Angue Oyana ME 584 Introduction to Nanotechnology Instructor: Dr. Zhaoyang Wang December 03‚ 2007 Department of Mechanical Engineering Catholic University of America Washington‚ DC Table of Contents 1. Introduction……………………………………………………………………………1 2. Medicine Today…………………………………………………………….................2 2.1. Crude Methods……………………………………………………………………2 2.2. Limited Abilities………………………………………………………………….3 3. Nanotechnology in Medicine…………………………………………………………
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