EDITORIAL From the Editor's Desk: The emergence of "personalized medicine" in medical care Medical students throughout their education are taught to consider the patient as a whole. We are reminded through our course work and by our course instructors that understanding the pathophysiologic basis of disease and responding with clinical interventions are only part of healing a person who is ill....

In Ayurveda, pulse diagnosis and body constitution diagnosis have a long historical use; still, there is lack of quantitative measure of the reliability of these diagnostic methods. Reliability means consistency of information. Consistent diagnosis leads to consistent treatment and is important for clinical practice, education, and research. The objective of this study is to study the methodolo...

Individual variation in the genetic constitution of humans may affect the host responses to constant assaults from exogenous and endogenous carcinogens, which will eventually impact cancer risk, disease prognosis and clinical outcome. Bladder cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. In this review, the published research articles studying the association between genetic polymorphi...

The genetic aspects of population health are critical, but frequently difficult to assess. Of concern has been the genetic constitution of Scandinavian wolves (Canis lupus), which represent an important case in conservation. We examined the incidence of different congenital anomalies for 171 Scandinavian wolves, including the immigrant founder female, born during a 32-year period between 1978 a...

1. Introduction The performance of a particular variety is the result of its genetic constitution and the environment in which it has been grown. In practice it is quite possible that a particular variety may not exhibit the same phenotypic performance under different environments or different varieties may respond differently to a specific environment. This variation, arising from the lack of ...

BACKGROUND Impaired glucose regulation (IGR) patients have increased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Identifying relevant risk factors in IGR subjects could facilitate early detection and prevention of IGR progression to diabetes. This study investigated the association between Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) body constitution and serum cytokines, and whether body constitution could...