Cancer can be treated by surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormonal therapy, and targeted therapy. The choice of treatment dependson the type and stage of the cancer. Chemotherapy drugs play an important role in cancer treatment. The objective of this interview-questionnaire study is to explore what influences Iranian hematologists-oncologists’ prescription when prescribing chemotherapy...

orientation of public and physicians to the complementary and alternative medicine (cam) is one of the most prominent symbols of structural changes in the health service system. the aim of his study was a determination of knowledge, attitude, and practice of general practitioners in complementary and alternative medicine. this cross- sectional study was conducted in qazvin, iran in 2013. a self...

historically, there is a consensus that islamic medicine followed the persian, greek and egyptian medicine and that a large number of muslim scholars were non-arabs. it is also known that most famous islamic physicians who took their knowledge to arabic countries received their education in the famous and credible university of gondishapour in iran. therefore, in order to develop a more compreh...

The role of the voluntary health agencies in this country is well understood. Tuberculosis, blindness , venereal disease, cancer, and other major public health problems have been attacked by them with notable success, some for as long as 50 years. There is a well established pattern of cooperation with official health agencies and with organized medicine. In its newly added role as a voluntary ...

Historically, the United States has had a long tradition of medical ethics teaching but not in the sense in which the term is applied today. Traditionally, teaching institutions sponsored by religious denominations primarily Roman Catholic and Jewish have included the study of ethical problems in medicine in their medical, as well as in their other, educational efforts. Seminary students and ot...

Globalization is creating similar environments for younger consumers around the world. With younger individuals being socialized in more similar environments than their parents, the former should have more comparable values than the latter. The goal of the current study was to empirically test this argument. Based on data gathered from 120 subjects across two countries, the results support grow...

In Japan, the practice of infection control in healthcare settings has a short history of less than 3 decades. Before that, infection control practices were far from perfect and even ignored. This review summarizes changes in infection control in Japan since the 1980s and offers some comparisons with practices in foreign countries, especially the United States. Infection control is far better n...

During this past summer, I had the rare (at least to the academician) opportunity to personally visit and travel with over 30 agribusiness salesmen throughout much of the American Southwest. I accompanied many of these “mobilized merchants” on their customer service calls. I rode along with these “practicing scientists” in their pickup trucks as they checked their clients’ operations for agrono...