Today, probably due to the frequently extra mental and emotional load on the people, visceral functional problems have become frequent (Carvalho and Damasio2021; Yan et al.2023). But still, the medical and psychological knowledge about these conditions is far from satisfying despite the effort of...
Small amounts of ketones in the body are normal. But high amounts can lead to serious health problems—even death. The medical term for ketones in the urine is “ketonuria.” So it is important to test for ketones in your urine, especially if you have other symptoms of diabetes such as...
Medical textbooks have always taught—and clinical practice correspondingly operates on the supposition—that type 2 diabetes can only “inexorably progress.” The belief is that once a patient with diabetes requires pharmacointervention, the disease is intractable. This long-entrenched dogma is omnipresen...
Medical Ethics Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence Introduction The umbrella term explicability refers to increasing the understanding of black-box artificial intelligence (AI) systems (Robbins 2019). Reducing the opacity of black-box AI systems is crucial for medical AI applica...
In 2009, Kareemah was diagnosed with cancer and underwent an amputation on her left leg below the knee. Three years later, she founded Adaptive Climbing Group. This episode is about strength in visibility and what happens when the narrative shifts from: “you don’t belong here” to “you ...
It may also be attractive for 'big pharma' to view physical inactivity as a market to be medicalized for profit. But is an exercise pill a bioplausible, realistic or desirable goal? In this review we will discuss what is meant by an exercise pill/mimetic, with a view to expanding our ...
Evidence pertaining to NCP is limited. NCP due to chemotherapeutic toxicity is a major problem for physicians. In the past two decades, there have been efforts to standardize NCP treatment in order to provide better medical service. Opioids are the mainstay of cancer pain ...
As such, measuring implementation outcomes can identify success in implementing new EBP into practice [2]. The field of implementation outcome research has expanded considerably since the seminal work undertaken by Proctor et al. in 2011 [3]. There is improved recognition of the concept and the ...
Population health interventions are generally, but not necessarily, considered as complex interventions, that is, “made up of various interconnecting parts” [3]. These interventions can also be considered as complex because of the influence of the context on their results [4]. The Medical Researc...
Dear Editor, Terminology matters. After all this is the basis of the formal code that allows investigators to communicate, compare notes and use computational tools to access molecular databases. If the same term is assigned different or inconsistent meanings, or different terms are used to ...