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Unstable angina: Natural history and determinants of prognosis

One hundred one patients with unstable angina were treated conservatively without the routine use of beta receptor blocking agents, calcium antagonist drugs, anticoagulant agents or nitrates. Only two patients underwent arteriography and coronary arterial bypass surgery during hospitalization and one patient during the 1st year of follow-up study. The 28 day mortality rate was 4 percent and the total 1 year cardiac mortality rate 10 percent. Two patients died from carcinoma. The incidence rate of nonfatal myocardial infarction was 9 percent during the first 28 days and a further 3 percent for the 1st year. These results compare favorably with the immediate and 1 year prognosis reported from other studies using different treatment procedures, including modern intensive drug treatment and coronary arterial bypass surgery. Various factors studied during the acute stage of unstable angina were assessed in an effort to predict the immediate and long-term outcome. Only persistence of pain after admission to the hospital was found a significant indicator of an adverse prognosis. Modern medical treatment of unstable angina with beta receptor blocking agents, calcium antagonist drugs, anticoagulant agents, nitrates and antiarrhythmic agents is critically examined. The paucity of proper randomized controlled studies confirming the value of medication is underlined. There is little evidence to show that aggressive or intensive medical or surgical treatment is superior to a conservative approach to management in the coronary care unit. This approach includes bed rest until the pain has resolved, symptomatic drug treatment only, the minimal use of invasive investigations and careful risk factor intervention.

Current Therapy 1975. Modern Medical Treatment.

Current Therapy 1975. Modern Medical Treatment.

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Etiology and treatment of pancreatic disease: modern concepts.

ABSTRACT:Although pancreatic disease may occur at any age, it is more prevalent in the elderly. Pancreopathy usually can be diagnosed by properly performed enzyme and function studies. However, because of its protean manifestations, the presence of pancreatic disease is often missed even after exploratory laparotomy and histologic examination. Prompt diagnosis can be life‐saving, especially in patients with acute abdominal symptoms. This requires diagnostic skill and a basic knowledge of the physiologic and pathologic mechanisms. Chronic pancreatitis follows a precise pattern of events, depending upon many complex underlying mechanisms. Early recognition can interrupt or delay its evolution. This article concerns various etiologic concepts, modern diagnostic methods (including enzyme and function studies, radiography, angiography, pancreatography), and medical and surgical treatment, with emphasis on the use of digestive enzymes.

Towards research on health development in Tanzania

The aim of this article is to suggest new ways of medical sociological research in particular in relation to modern institutions providing medical care and training facilities. An attempt has been made to describe the characteristics of socio-medical research in the past. It is argued that traditionally most research in this field in Africa was concerned with subjects like the system of traditional medicine in the various ethnic groups and cultural and social factors related to health and disease. This article discusses the need to investigate the modern medical treatment units, the training centres and the medical profession in order to be able to assess whether the pattern of medical care and the training system is well-adapted to the political and social requirements of the country.

Pulmonary embolism: modern concepts and diagnostic techniques.

AbstractThe subject of pulmonary embolism is assuming ever‐increasing importance, not only medically but legally. More than ever, the physician should have basic knowledge of the pathophysiology. This article outlines the modern concepts of the mechanisms involved and the etiologic factors. Pulmonary embolism is often difficult to diagnose. A thorough history and physical examination are fundamental, but there are several good diagnostic aids in the field of radiography, angiography, thermography, lung scanning, ultrasonic procedures, and enzyme and pulmonary function tests. Modern medical treatment is outlined—including preventive therapy, the treatment of shock, and the use of anticoagulants and thrombolytic agents. Surgical techniques include some ingenious new methods. However, the best results are obtained when surgical skill is combined with good judgment in the proper selection of cases.

Ethno-medicinal Plants Used by the People of Nawalparasi District, Central Nepal

Despite new advances in modern medicine, the cultural use of plant in traditional medicine continues from ancient time to this day all over the world. The present research seeks to explore ethnomedicinal plants used by the local people of Nawalparasi district for primary healthcare. Local healers were interviewed regarding the detail uses of plants. When convenient a jungle or forest walk was also conducted, accompanying local healers for plant collection and detailed information gathering. A rich and unique diversity of 94 ethnomedicinal plant species belonging to 49 families under 86 genera were documented. In Nawalparasi, the expense of modern medical treatment combined with the poor economic status of indigenous people and a strong belief in the traditional medicine and traditional medical practitioners are the main reasons for the persistence of the traditional healing system. In addition, we have also documented a lack of continuation and flow of indigenous knowledge from the elders to the younger generation. Youth tend to be attracted by the wave of modernization and do not appreciate the importance of conservation of traditional knowledge. The use of plants in Nawalparasi is an old tradition and the exploration of such unique cultures should be completed thoroughly so that the oral traditions are not lost forever. Immediate conservation and management approaches of valuable medicinal plants with the involvement of local indigenous people of Nawalparasi district will encourage the sustainable conservation of both biological and cultural diversity.Key words: Traditional medicine; Local healers; Healthcare; Conservation; NawalparasiDOI: 10.3126/on.v7i1.2555Our Nature (2009) 7:82-99

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A Review of Modern Medical Treatment. Edited By HenryMillerE. & S. Livingstone Ltd., Edinburgh and London1962. Price 30s.

A Review of Modern Medical Treatment. Edited By HenryMillerE. & S. Livingstone Ltd., Edinburgh and London1962. Price 30s.

Hemodynamie Aspects of Modern Medical Treatment of Arterial Hypertension

Hemodynamie Aspects of Modern Medical Treatment of Arterial Hypertension

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Book Review: Modern Medical Treatment

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Treatment and prognosis in malignant hypertension: clinical follow-up study of 93 patients on modern medical treatment.

Treatment and prognosis in malignant hypertension: clinical follow-up study of 93 patients on modern medical treatment.

The modern medical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.

Article1 September 1955THE MODERN MEDICAL TREATMENT OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSISMAURICE J. SMALL, M.D., F.A.C.P.MAURICE J. SMALL, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-43-3-539 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn a discussion of the modern medical treatment of tuberculosis it should be pointed out at the start that this treatment is still very young and that there are still many unanswered problems which are being actively investigated. Streptomycin (SM) did not come into general use until late 1947, para-aminosalicylic acid (PAS) in 1949, and iso-nicotinic acid hydrazide (INH) in 1952, and the concept of long-term chemotherapy with these drugs is quite new and its final evaluation far from complete. This discussion will therefore attempt to summarize what is currently accepted by the best authorities in the medical treatment of...Bibliography1. Robins AB: Tuberculosis in New York City today, Quart. Bull., Dept. of Health, City of New York, Winter 1953-1954, pp. 52-57. Google Scholar2. Waring JJ: The current treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, Dis. of Chest 25: 361-373 (Apr.) 1954. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. Walker AW, for the Veterans Administration Committee on Chemotherapy: The chemotherapy of tuberculosis in man, J. A. M. A. 147: 253-258 (Sept. 15) 1951. MedlineGoogle Scholar4. KarlsonFeldman AGWH: The effect of combined therapy with streptomycin and para-aminosalicylic acid on experimental tuberculosis in guinea pigs, Proc. Staff Meet., Mayo Clin. 24: 510-515 (Sept. 28) 1949. MedlineGoogle Scholar5. Transactions of the 13th Conference on the Chemotherapy of Tuberculosis of the Veterans Administration, Army and Navy, St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 8-11, 1954. Google Scholar6. DooneiefHite ASKE: Indefinitely prolonged chemotherapy for tuberculosis, Am. Rev. Tuberc. 70: 219-227 (Aug.) 1954. MedlineGoogle Scholar7. AuerbachKatzSmall OHLMJ: The effect of streptomycin therapy on the bronchocavitary junction and its relation to cavity healing, Am. Rev. Tuberc. 67: 173-200 (Feb.) 1953. MedlineGoogle Scholar8. HobbyAuerbachLenertSmallComer GLOTFMJJV: The late emergence of M. tuberculosis in liquid cultures of pulmonary lesions resected from humans, Am. Rev. Tuberc. 70: 191-218 (Aug.) 1954. MedlineGoogle Scholar9. Drug therapy in the management of the unhospitalized tuberculous patient, Scientific Exhibit of the Department of Health, New York City, at the Graduate Fortnight of Medicine, N. Y. Academy of Medicine, October 18-29, 1954. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: East Orange, New Jersey*Received for publication March 14, 1955.From the Tuberculosis Service, Veterans Administration Hospital, East Orange, New Jersey. Presented by invitation at the Symposium on Chronic Pulmonary Disease on November 11, 1954, sponsored by the Medical Society of the County of Queens, Queens County Chapter, Academy of General Practice and the Queensboro Tuberculosis and Health Association. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 1 September 1955Volume 43, Issue 3Page: 539-548KeywordsAntimicrobialsChemotherapyDrugsLesionsPeriodic acid SchiffPrimary carePulmonary diseasesStreptomycin ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 September 1955 PDF downloadLoading ...

The present status of socialized medicine in England

To sum up, the service is a mixture of good and bad. The good is naturally less obvious because all concentrate on the defects but the bad too is not obvious. In the main the dangers seen now for the most part derive from the very existence of bureaucratic medicine and all that a bureaucratic machine can do. If there is the problem of sick people who cannot afford to pay for the best possible modern medical treatment, you must recognize the necessity for some form of insurance service. But let it be an insurance which the wage earner pays and knows he is paying or an insurance for a “grant-in-aid”, so that the people do not get the idea that someone else is paying for it but know that they are paying themselves. I question if voluntary insurance is enough. Would the imprudent join such a scheme? Whatever you do, limit the state insurance to those who need it leaving those who can afford to provide for themselves to do so. Do not forget that it appears the principle of our present government is that they do not trust anyone to spend his own money and therefore collect it and spend it for him. In spite of what I have said about the present health service being here to stay, do not forget that the British have the reputation of losing all battles except the last. We have partly lost the first battle; however, governments come and governments go but the spirit of medicine in the service of humanity goes on forever. So the last battle is not yet fought between our profession and bureaucracy. America also has a reputation! After we have suffered for months or years America takes an interest, begins to understand, develops new lines of thought, learns from our mistakes and also comes to our aid before it is too late. This time it will not be with planes, guns, men and food, but perhaps with the moral example of a really sound health service for the nation based on freedom for the patient and the doctor and not upon the slavery of the bureaucrat. A service should come by evolution and not revolution. The patient should have the right to contract out of the service. With a service covering 90 or 95 per cent of the population you are safe and free; but when the contract covers 100 per cent, you are slaves. One of Abraham Lincoln's most famous speeches began with the words: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe that he would have continued: “This profession cannot endure half slave and half free.” I think if Abraham Lincoln had been here today he might have used words something like these: It is for us to be here dedicated to the great task before us—that we here highly resolve that this profession under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that freedom of medical care and treatment of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Essentials of Modern Medical Treatment

Essentials of Modern Medical Treatment

Essentials of Modern Medical Treatment

Essentials of Modern Medical Treatment

Book Review Modern Medical Treatment . By E. Bellingham-Smith and Anthony Feiling. New York. William Wood & Co., 1931. Two volumes. Price $12.00.

Book Review Modern Medical Treatment . By E. Bellingham-Smith and Anthony Feiling. New York. William Wood & Co., 1931. Two volumes. Price $12.00.

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Modern Medical Treatment.

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