Although personalized medicine appears to be a truism, medical doctors are still generally trained in an old-fashioned manner with a focus on reactive treatment. The aim of this paper is to emphasize the evolution of life sciences into a more predictive science, where the development of quantitative models is starting to take place. Personalized medicine is a consequence of such paradigm shift....

Each year medical students in Louisiana and residents from the eight Internal Medicine training programs in Louisiana are invited to submit abstracts for the annual Louisiana American College of Physicians (ACP) Associates Meeting. The content of these abstracts includes clinical case vignettes or research activities. The abstracts have all identifying features removed (i.e., names, institution...

Laertis Ikonomou, Robert J. Freishtat, Darcy E. Wagner, Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari, and Daniel J. Weiss The Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine and Center for Regenerative Medicine of Boston University and Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; George Washington University School of Medicine and Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC; Comprehensive Pneumol...

W ith the evolution of the human race and its existence on earth, it is but natural that early man should have been plagued with disease. Our Vedic scriptures tell us that Brahma wrote the slokas in the Vedas. The Rig and Ather Vedas documented knowledge about medical and surgical diseases and their treatment. Subsequent followers such as Sage Agastya practised the healing arts then. The oral t...

This paper first traces the historical and cultural roots of liberal learning in East Asian (Confucian) and Western traditions to show how they resemble each other and where they depart. It argues that despite the strikingly different legacies, liberal arts education in both East Asia and the West faces increasingly the same challenges as a result of globalization. In a context of new social fo...

The existence of large amounts of information which is disperse and disorganized led to the need for a study which allowed for the identification of those less developed areas of research on "traditional" medicine. This research was intended to characterize and construct a database on the traditional health systems in various countries in Latin The goal of the study was to gather information in...

This is a special report of the findings of the Concussion Workshop, sponsored by the AOSSM in Chicago in December 1997. Here follows a listing of the members of the workshop: Julian Bailes, MD, American Association of Neurological Surgeons; Arthur Boland, MD, AOSSM; Charles Burke III, MD, National Hockey League; Robert Cantu, MD, American College of Sports Medicine; Letha “Etty” Griffin, MD, N...

I n 2013, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (US) and the Society of Occupational Medicine (UK) launched a new initiative aimed at improving global worker health and wellbeing through the exchange of information and ideas. As a first step, the two organizations convened leaders from 18 international occupational medical (OM) societies to discuss mutual issues and co...

As of 2009, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine (IJBM) will be published by Springer Science + Business Media. Springer is one of the largest scientific, technical, and medical publishers in the world. It publishes over 1,750 journals in the fields of social and behavioral sciences, medicine, humanities, business and economics, engineering, mathematics, physics, and chemical sciences. ...

The European Federation of Internal Medicine (EFIM) was formed in 1996 through a merger between the Association Européenne de Médicine Interne (d' Ensemble) (AEMI(E)) and the Forum of Presidents of National Societies of Internal Medicine (IM). It arose as a result of ideas from Carcassi (Rome/Cagliari) and Merino (Alicante) to transform the largely French-speaking and rather elitist AEMI into a...