When physicians and surgeons are asked whether medicine is a science, the answer is emphatically NO! The author examines and explains to what extent diagnosis, therapy, and psychosomatic medicine are based on scientific knowledge and the laws of nature. It is shown that at least 90 % of all ...
Dr. Claudia Welch explores how the effectiveness of a physician extends far beyond the ability to prescribe correct treatments, and how mastering the art of doctoring can make the medicine more effective. Drawing on Eastern medical traditions and experience as well as on Western science, Dr. ...
Learn about factor analysis - a simple way to condense the data in many variables into a just a few variables.
Drew University of Medicine and Science, a historically Black graduate institution, will be linked to the University of California—Los Angeles and offer support to minority students wanting to expand access to health care for the underserved. It is the fourth historically Black...
One person's ‘spoiling’ is another's freedom to become: Overcoming ethnocentric views about parental control (1994). One person’s “spoiling” is another’s freedom to become: Overcoming ethnocentric views about parental control. Social Science and Medicine , ... JE Sprott - 《Social Science...
In the United States (US), the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program is the only comprehensive source of population-based information that includes stage of cancer at the time of diagnosis and patient survival data. This program aims to provide a database about cancer incide...
director of clinical research informatics atMontefiore Health Systemand Albert Einstein College of Medicine,the vast majority of research findings are based on averages of middle-aged white males: “We don’t really know much about women, other ethni...
Psychometrics is a branch of data science. In fact, it’s been around a long time before that term was even a buzzword. Don’t believe me? Check out thisCoursera course on Data Science, and the first example they give as one of the foundational historical projects in data science is…...
Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www.springernature.com/us). Scientific American maintains a strict policy of editorial independence in reporting developments in science to our...
The immune system is a complex network of specialized cells that work in concert to protect against invading pathogens and tissue damage. Imbalances in this network often result in excessive or absent immune responses leading to allergies, autoimmune dis