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Decisional Autonomy Undermines Advisees’ Judgments of Experts In Medicine And In Life

Kassirer, Samantha - 2020

Over the past several decades, the United States medical system has increasingly prioritized patient autonomy. Physicians routinely encourage patients to come to their own decisions about their medical care rather than providing patients with clearer yet more paternalistic advice. Although...

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Integrative medicine as a new treatment model and the future of health care systems in the world in the context of rare diseases

Czerska, Iwona; Skweres-Kuchta, Małgorzata - In: European research studies 24 (2021) 2B, pp. 800-809

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A Voyage of Medical Tourism Through Alternative Medicine (With Reference to Bathini Fish Medicine in Hyderabad)

Murthy, Psr - 2010

India is a leading player in the medical tourism industry. It is increasingly emerging as the destination of choice for a wide range of medical procedures. The medical tourism market in India was estimated at $333 million in 2004. It is anticipated to grow by 25 percent annually and to become a...

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Access to Medicine in an Era of Fractal Inequality

Pasquale, Frank A. - 2010

Those in the richest countries have far more income and wealth than those in poor countries. Moreover, the most fortunate in the richest countries – particularly those in the top centile of the income distribution – are far richer than those around them. Most dramatically, even within that...

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Patient-Tailored Medicine, Part One : The Impact of Race and Genetics on Medicine

Parver, Corrine - 2014

A two-part article on personalized medicine and healthcare disparities among minority populations that had it's genesis with the American Health Lawyers Association's Advisory Council on Racial and Ethnic Diversity

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The management of disease in a traditional medicine perspective : the case of Nampula, North of Mozambique

Nhaueleque, Laura António - In: Problems of management in the 21st century 17 (2022) 1, pp. 78-89

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Trade in Medicines

Abbott, Frederick M. - 2016

, distribution and trade in pharmaceuticals and related supplies are subject to government regulatory control at a number of levels … differential regulation may unnecessarily hinder the cross-border movement of pharmaceuticals, particularly among regions that … include chapters covering intellectual property rights and regulatory data with respect to pharmaceuticals, as well as …

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Model Law on Medicine Crime

Attaran, Amir - 2015

Medicine crime is the dark side of globalization and health. Rising wealth and falling trade barriers mean that more people than ever before are able to afford and access medicines — an overwhelmingly good thing for public health — but this comes at the cost of organized criminals also...

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Clinical Observation : Spoons Systematically Bias Dosing of Liquid Medicine

Wansink, Brian; van Ittersum, Koert - 2016

Background: Spoon dosing has been identified as 1 of the 3 major causes of dosing errors and pediatric poisonings (1). Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommends against using kitchen silverware to dose liquid medicine (accessed June 28, 2009) most persons still use spoons when...

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Utilization of Combined use Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine by Patients with Chronic Disease

Wu, Pin-Hsuan - 2007

Alternative medicine has gained increasing attention in Taiwan. The medical benefits of the National Health Insurance program included Chinese medicine and Western medicine. The total medical expense was NT$353 billion, of which NT$14 billion (4%) was approved for Chinese medicine in 2003....

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