HIPPOCRATES IS TURNING IN HIS GRAVE

Hippocrates' Oath is challenged.

Hippocrates is alive and weaning in Brazil

In a group of postoperative patients, Taniguchi and coworkers compared the effect of a computerized system for weaning against 'manual care'. The computerized system involved automatic adjustments to the level of pressure support to achieve a target respiratory rate. Manual care involved adjustments to the level of pressure support to keep the ratio of respiratory frequency to tidal volume belo...

Is the Hippocrates paradox really a paradox?

n the Editorial Comment by Lavie and Milani (1) accompanying he report by Reeves and associates (2), the correspondents used as heir title “Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease: The Hippocrates aradox?”. Lavie and Milani began their comment by quoting a tatement by Hippocrates, namely, “Sudden death is more comon in those who are naturally fat than in the lean.” Clearly ippocrates recognized the ...

Hippocrates

Appendix to Regimen in acute diseases. Since only the last has ever before been turned into English, those who know no Greek (or who have difficulty with the dark sentences of the Hippocratic Corpus) will have at last the opportunity to read some of the most medically interesting texts of the Corpus. A considerable sampling of the English suggests that this is an extremely accurate rendering wh...

Turning nutrition on its head--Noakes gets his day.