This brief focuses on the motivations and mechanisms behind the increase of prenatal sex selection; outlines regions and countries that have skewed sex ratios at birth; and explores the negative social, economic, and development effects on individuals, communities, societies, and countries. While prenatal sex selection was once thought to be unique to India and China, it actually threatens all ...

The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) developed a musculoskeletal ultrasound curriculum for sports medicine fellowships in 2010. As the use of diagnostic and interventional ultrasound in sports medicine has evolved, it became clear that the curriculum needed to be updated. Furthermore, the name 'musculoskeletal ultrasound' was changed to 'sports ultrasound' (SPORTS US) to ref...

Reproductive medicine is a new important field in all the countries. The possibilities are tremendous, therefore we have to decide if limits are necessary or should we consider that everything that have been initiated (as clone, gene transfer....) can be apply in humans. That will be the challenge of a global ethical approach in each country with their culture, morality, guidelines or laws.

One of the main conceptual changes in the 20th century medicine is the inclusion of social dimension. The “golden era” of Parson’s medical model (1), which uses the “activepassive” dichotomy to describe the positions and expectations of physicians and patients, is over. Physicians’ supremacy has slowly and systematically been challenged by the emergence of third party stakeholders, development ...

To cite: Colla CH, Sequist TD, Rosenthal MB, et al. BMJ Qual Saf 2015;24:149–153. INTRODUCTION In 2011, the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation created the Choosing Wisely initiative, which encourages physicians to be responsible stewards of finite healthcare resources. Through this programme, specialty societies have created lists of “Five Things Physicians and Patients Should Quest...

Europe, because of its geographical location, strategic position on trade routes, and colonial past, has a long history of caring for travellers' health. Within Europe, there is great diversity in the practice of travel medicine. Some countries have travel medicine societies and provisions for a periodic distribution of recommendations, but many countries have no national pre-travel guidelines ...

Published by Elsevier. This is an open access article under the s we anticipate the forthcoming 400th anniversary of the ublication of Donguibogam, a monumental achievement of raditional medicine in East Asia, the inauguration of Integraive Medicine Research is timely and welcome news. I hope and elieve that the journal will become a new milestone for the lobal medicine. Whereas the 20th centur...

Clinical governance has been introduced in the UK as a mechanism to improve the quality of health services, and the professional performance of clinicians. Specialist societies have a pivotal role to play in developing systems to support its implementation in clinical practice. Rehabilitation medicine is a specialty characterised by closely integrated interdisciplinary teamwork. The particular ...

This paper critically examines the morality of advertising by practitioners in spiritual healing and herbal medicine heretofore referred to as traditional medicine, in southern African urban societies. While the subject of traditional medicine has been heavily contested in medical studies in the last few decades, the monumental studies on the subject have emphasised the place of traditional med...