In the previous two lectures, I tried to explain in detail that the paradigm of Kampo is basically different from that of modern Western medicine, focusing especially on the concept of Sho. Kampo has been developed to cope with Sho, not with the disease entities understood in terms of modern Western medicine. Thus, there is little point asking, for example, ‘Are there any Kampo remedies effecti...

In recent years, the British Medical Journal published several papers apropos the “parachute approach evidencebased medicine” (1). In the original profound article, Smith and Pell argued that the parachute use to prevent death and major trauma due to capital challenge is clearly obvious, and there is no need for randomized controlled trials (2). Although this argument may hold true in medicine ...

In this article, we situate arts-based health research in the contextual background of evidencebased medicine, knowledge translation and qualitative health research to explain why the ethics of doing arts-based health research has received little attention until now. Then, we present an overview of the ethical issues reported in scientific publications by arts-based health researchers. Finally,...

Actovegin is a biological drug that has been used for the treatment of sports muscle injuries. Several in vitro studies have shed light on potential mechanisms of action and the drug has consistently demonstrated its potential to reduce return to injury time for muscle tears in elite athletes. Yet it was banned for a time under the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as a blood doping agent, ...

Melissa M. Brown, MD, MN, MBA Gary C. Brown, MD, MBA Peter Kertes, MD It is the philosophy of Evidence-Based Ophthalmology that the best evidencebased medicine should provide the foundation for knowledge, which will allow practitioners to provide the highest quality of medicine for our patients. Although the knowledge of a numerical or statistical change is critical, this information must be ta...

Paul B. Robertson, DDS, MS; Kenneth S. Kornman, DDS, PhD In the early 1960s, Dr. Sigurd P. Ramfjord and his colleagues at the University of Michigan began the first controlled longitudinal human clinical trials comparing periodontal therapeutic approaches for treatment of patients with periodontitis. In the current era of evidencebased medicine and dentistry, “comparative effectiveness” and the...

METHODS: In March 2012, we launched a high-value care (HVC) program within the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. The HVC program is co-led by a physician and the division’s administrator, and includes other hospitalists, resident physicians, pharmacists, and administrators. The program aims to (1) use financial and clinical data to identify areas with...

Introduction: Based of tht author's doctoral dissertation problems insurance medicine, relevant monographs and scientific articles, an attempt is presented to substantiate option transforming our purely governmental national system medicine. Purpose: Using more than thirty innovative organizational medico-economic standards, criteria regulations, in process their "activation" the conditions a f...

Performing systematic reviews is a critical yet manual, labor-intensive step in evidencebased medicine. Automating systematic reviews is an active area of research, requiring innovations in machine learning and computational linguistics. We examine how coreference resolution can aid in identifying the arms of a study, an often overlooked piece of information needed to synthesize the results in ...