Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are characterized by their mode of transmission, but they also have profound similarities and differences. Most STDs tend to be asymptomatic as a sign of adaptation to the human host. This is also reflected in their species specificity, i.e., humans, which ...
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Wilsnack RW, Wilsnack SC, Kristjanson AF, Vogeltanz-Holm ND, Gmel G. Gender and alcohol consumption: patterns from the multinational GENACIS project. Addiction. 2009;104:1487–500. ArticlePubMedPubMed CentralGoogle Scholar Rehm J, Taylor B, Mohapatra S, Irving H, Baliunas D, Patra J, et...
Earliest evidence of spinal tuberculosis from the Aneolithic Yayoi period in Japan Tuberculosis has existed from early prehistoric days to modern times. The main causative agents of tuberculosis worldwide are Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M... T Suzuki,T Inoue - 《International Journal of Osteoarchaeology...
Figure 3. (a) Florence Nightingale reported on the data she collected as a nurse in the Crimean War. (b) Nightingale’s diagram shows the number of fatalities in soldiers by month of the conflict from various causes. The total number dead in a particular month is equal to the area of ...
Here, we review key historical advances and progress from the past few years in our understanding of the role of mitochondria in ageing and age-related metabolic diseases. We also highlight emerging scientific innovations using mitochondria-targeted therapeutic approaches. Key points The rate of ...
What big questions and large-scale narratives give coherence to the history of science? From the late 1970s onward, the field has been transformed through ... R Porter - 《Medical History》 被引量: 156发表: 1988年 Imperialism and social reform, English social-imperial thought 1895-1914. Impe...
“wasting away” of the body. It was also sometimes referred to as phthisis or mistaken for MARASMUS — severe malnutrition that caused an infant or child to look emaciated. One cure for consumption from the 1800s involved a concoction of equal proportions of rum and boiled milk, sweetened ...
Emphasis on the presence, rather than absence, of disease has dominated medical thinking since ancient times, with the term public health first appearing in the early 1900s [5]. The paradigm-shift from the idea of ‘miasmas’ and evil spells – originally believed to have caused the Black ...
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