A Travel Medicine Practitioner's Tale

Travel Medicine: A Systematic Review

Introduction: Travel medicine is devoted to the health of travelers who visit foreign countries. It is an interdisciplinary specialty concerned not only with prevention of infectious diseases during travel but also with the personal safety of travelers and the avoidance of environmental risks. Methods: This review examines 15 appropriate papers by PRISMA ...

Travel and tropical medicine practice among infectious disease practitioners.

BACKGROUND Infectious disease specialists who evaluate international travelers before or after their trips need skills to prevent, recognize, and treat an increasingly broad range of infectious diseases. Wide variation exists in training and percentage effort among providers of this care. In parallel, there may be variations in approach to pre-travel consultation and the types of travel-related...

A Brief Overview of the Specialty of Travel Medicine

Toilet in Transportation Vehicles: A Topic for Consideration on Travel Sanitation in Travel Medicine

Integrative medicine: a tale of two clinics

BACKGROUND Integrative medicine (blending the best of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) with conventional medicine) is becoming increasingly popular. OBJECTIVES The objectives of this paper are to compare and contrast the development of two teams that set out to establish integrative medical clinics, highlighting key issues found to be common to both settings, and to identify facto...