1Department of Internal Medicine, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; 2Department of Internal Medicine, Haeundae Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea; 3Division of Hematology-Oncology, Ulsan University Hospital, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Ulsan, Korea; 4Department of Internal Medicine, Daegu Catholic University Ho...

The big news in women’s health in 2002 came from the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) report, which found that combined hormone replacement therapy (HRT) (estrogen plus progestin) exposes postmenopausal women to more risk than benefit. Before this report, most observational studies showed that HRT decreased risk for heart disease by as much as 35%. In retrospect, however, many of these studies d...

Music therapy is an alternative and supplemental form of treatment used to treat a variety of diseases in the field of internal medicine, including psychosomatic and lifestyle-related diseases, specifically digestive ulcer, NUD (non-ulcer dyspepsia), chronic pancreatitis, hypertension, bronchial asthma, diabetes mellitus, simple obesity, Basedow’s disease, terminal cancer, and senile dementia. ...

www.icjournal.org Vaccination guideline for Immigrant in Korea by Korean Society of Infectious Diseases Joon-Sup Yeom, Ki Tae Kwon, Jacob Lee, Yoo Bin Suh, Hae Suk Cheong, Hyun Hee Kwon, and Hee Jin Cheong; The Committee of Adult Immunization, The Korean Society of Infectious Diseases Department of Internal Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul; D...

Background: Internal Medicine (IM) is one of the main medical specialties. In this paper, the features of the Iranian IM residency training program, duties and salary were evaluated and compared with some countries. Methods: Using the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (IMHME) directive, the features of educational curriculum, compulsory working hours, duties and salary were extra...

Asaee R1, Nasari H2,Hoseini S3 1. Assistant professor, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Lorestanl University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran 1. Assistant professor, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Lorestanl University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran 2. G.P, Khorramabad, Iran Abstract Background: Delirium is common in elderly persons and in hospital...

Epistemologists have selected two basic categories: that of errors committed in scientific research, when a researcher devises or accepts an unfounded hypothesis, and that of mistakes committed in the application of scientific knowledge whereby doctors rely on knowledge held to be true at the time in order to understand an individual patient's signs and symptoms. The paper will deal exclusively...

Current guidelines recommend nephrology referral when eGFR <30mls/min. To determine the implications of this guideline on our nephrology unit which serves the Southern Health and Social Services Board (SHSSB) area of Northern Ireland (population 320, 000) we identified: (i) the number of patients in this area with an eGFR of 15-29 mls/min (stage 4 CKD) (ii) the factors influencing outcomes (dia...