1 Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America, 2 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America, 3 Inflammation Program, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, ...

We live in the era of genomics and big data. Evaluating the impact on health of large-scale biological, social, and environmental data is an emerging challenge in the field of epidemiology. In the past 3 years, major discussions and plans for the future of epidemiology, including with several recommendations for actions to transform the field, have been launched by 2 institutes within the Natio...

For our participation at the clinical trials task in the TREC 2017 Precision Medicine track 2017, we investigated retrieving and matching clinical trial documents with patient information based on text and concept annotations of the text, filtering results for demographic information such as gender and age, and re-ranking results based on patient information. Experimental results show a competi...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Alternative medicine (AM) encompasses all forms of therapies that fall outside the mainstream of medical practice. Its popularity is on the increase. Because previous surveys were limited and not generalizable, we estimated the prevalence, pattern and factors associated with use of AM in the community. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A multistage cluster cross-sectional househo...

The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in collaboration with the Ministry of Health Care carries out the activities aimed at solving occupational health and safety problems in Lithuania. Occupational health care system in Lithuania consists of three levels: 1) primary occupational health centers in the industry; 2) general practitioners taking care of employees' health; and 3) the State Labor...

Course Description “Complementary and Alternative Medicine” is an online continuing education course for occupational therapists and occupational therapist assistants. This course presents updated information about Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) including sections on statistical usage, alternative medical systems, mind body medicine, biologically based practices, energy therapies,...

A substantial amount of occupational medicine is practised by primary care physicians and this applies throughout the world. In the UK, if we assume that 1 in 10 primary care physicians may have some attachment or interest then there may be as many as 3200 general practitioners (GPs) practising occupational medicine, even if this is simply an arrangement to see employees from a local company if...