Modern Occupational Medicine

Occupational Medicine Occupational asthma

Occupational asthma may be defined as asthma induced by exposure to an inhaled agent (or agents) in the workplace. Its presentation is sometimes dramatic. Occupational exposure to platinum salts, for example, has been known to induce asthma in over 50% of an exposed workforce. For those affected, the consequences are often devastating, while the economic effects for an industry may be no less p...

Modern Medicine and Some Modern Remedies

Modern Medicine and Pharmaceutics

Materialism and modern medicine.

Modern medicine comes online

How putting Wikipedia articles through a medical journal's traditional process can put free, reliable information into as many hands as possible. school before the turn of the millennium, a single glance in a teaching hospital can tell you how things have changed. Resident and student physicians no longer huddle in groups, listening to their seniors: they lean alone over smartphones or computer...