OBJECTIVES The holistic use of a system of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is potentially linked to its treatment outcomes. This paper examines how the use of biomedicine is associated with the holistic use of CAM, focusing on traditional East Asian medicine (EM) that is uniquely integrated in the medical system in South Korea. DESIGN/SETTINGS A representative national sample of ...

In 1986, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) initiated a terminology integration project – the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) – as “an effort to overcome two significant barriers to effective retrieval of machine-readable information”: the variety of names used to express the same concept and the absence of a standard format for distributing terminologies. By integrating more than 60...

Text mining provides the automated means to manage information overload and overlook. By adding meaning to text, text mining techniques produce a much more structured analysis of textual knowledge than do simple word searches, and can provide powerful tools for knowledge discovery in biomedicine. In this chapter, the author focus on the text mining services for biomedicine offered by the United...

The recent developments in Question Answering have kept with open-domain questions and collections, sometimes argued as being more difficult than narrow domain-focused questions and corpora. The biomedical field is indeed a specialized domain; however, its scope is fairly broad, so that considering a biomedical QA task is not necessarily such a simplification over open-domain QA as represented ...

Nanoparticles are being used for construction of complex and higher-order functional structures and metamaterials with applications in nanophotonics, information storage and biomedicine, to name a few. These innovations are briefly discussed within the context of future diagnostic and nanomedicine platform technologies and their possible self-assembly in vivo.

Although biomedicine is responsible for the "miracles" of modern medicine, paradoxically it has also led to a quality-of-care crisis in which many patients feel disenfranchised from the health-care industry. To address this crisis, several medical commentators make an appeal for humanizing biomedicine, which has led to shifts in the philosophical boundaries of medical knowledge and practice. In...