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[Research in veterinary environmental hygiene].

The course of development of the initial subject "Veterinary Hygiene" to the reduction and specialization limited to "Animal Hygiene" and the recent extension into the broad field of environmental hygiene is described. This is done with reference to books and other publications which point the way ahead for research of veterinary medicine in environmental hygiene and thus prove the increasing importance of that subject. A survey is given over current German research in that field, future demands as well as the necessary extension of environmental hygiene in graduate and post-graduate teaching of veterinary students as well as further professional training of veterinarians.

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Towards clinical bioinformatics: advancing genomic medicine with informatics methods and tools.

OBJECTIVES: To summarize the challenges facing clinical applications in the light of growing research results in genomic medicine and bioinformatics. METHODS: Analysis of the contents of the Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2004 of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). RESULTS: The Yearbook of Medical Informatics 2004 includes 32 articles selected from 22 peer-reviewed scientific journals. A special section on clinical bioinformatics highlights recent developments in this field. Several guest editors review the promises and limitations of available methods and resources from biomedical informatics that are relevant to clinical medicine. Integrated data and knowledge resources are generally regarded to be central and key issues for clinical bioinformatics. Further review papers deal with public health implications of bioinformatics, knowledge management and trends in health care education. The Yearbook includes for the first time a section on the history of medical informatics, where the significant impact of the Reisensburg protocol 1973 on international health and medical informatics education is examined. CONCLUSIONS: Close collaboration between bioinformatics and medical informatics researchers can contribute to new insights in genomic medicine and contribute towards the more efficient and effective use of genomic data to advance clinical care.

Computational Biology↗

Finding the answers in primary care: information seeking by rural and nonrural clinicians.

BACKGROUND: Information systems for rural practice may assume that rural clinicians have different information seeking, but studies have not directly compared rural and nonrural information needs using common methodology. OBJECTIVE: Compare rural and non-rural: 1) information needs; 2) information seeking; 3) effectiveness of information seeking; and 4) use of information resources. DESIGN: Observation and interviews during one half-day of office practice; telephone follow-up 2-10 days later. PARTICIPANTS & SETTING: Primary care physicians (39), nurse practitioners (42), and physician assistants (22) in ambulatory practices in rural and nonrural Oregon. MEASURES: 1) number of questions asked, 2) number of questions pursued, 3) number of questions answered), and 4) use of knowledge resources. RESULTS: Rural clinicians practiced in smaller groups, but were otherwise similar to nonrural clinicians. During half-day interviews, clinicians cared for an average of 8.2 patients (95% CI 7.5 - 8.8) and asked an average of 0.83 questions per patient seen (95% CI 0.73 - 0.92). At follow up, they had pursued an average of 47% of their questions (95% CI 40 - 53%), and reported being successful in finding an answer to 77% of those they pursued (95% CI 70 - 84%). There were no statistically significant differences between rural and nonrural clinicians for any of these variables. CONCLUSIONS: Rural and nonrural clinicians had similar information needs, information seeking, knowledge resource use, and effectiveness at finding answers to their questions. Human consultants, digital resources, and library-based resources were less available, but these differences in availability had little impact on their use.

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Problem-based medical education: effect on library use.

Problem-based learning (PBL) is being adopted by U.S. medical schools. Information-seeking skills are central to the PBL curriculum, which emphasizes self-directed learning and the acquisition of problem-solving and lifelong learning skills. The purpose of this study is to begin exploring the relationship between the PBL curriculum and student information and library use. Medical students in PBL and conventional medical school curricula were compared on library and information-seeking competencies, behaviors, and perceptions. A survey was sent to second-year students in four medical schools, two schools with two curricular tracks (one PBL and one conventional), one PBL school, and one conventional school. The results showed certain significant differences (P less than 0.05) between PBL and conventional curriculum students, suggesting that PBL students were the more frequent library users, used information resources that supported the independent learning process, acquired information-seeking skills at an earlier stage in their medical education, and reported greater ease in using these skills.

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Therapy of kidney diseases in poor people in France during the 18th century.

The idea of using simple and easily available remedies to treat different diseases is typical of ancient medicine and one of the first examples can be found in Galen's works. This type of Medicine was called ""Medicine for the poor"" in the 18th century. This expression refers to the use of simple substances, available in nature, like plants, herbs, flowers, fruit, minerals etc, to treat some of the more common diseases. Evidence of this tendency in the early 18th century is a textbook of Medicine written in France by Dubé in 1669. This work has been reprinted several times, and translated from French into English in 1704 and into Italian in 1715 by Sebastiano Castellini. In his work Dubè describes the therapeutic remedies made with natural substances. Some of these substances were used to treat renal diseases, in particular nephrolithiasis, kidney and bladder inflammatory disease, renal ulcer, dysuria and incontinence.

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Sir William Osler.

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Education, Medical↗

[Religion and healing in the XIII century: some considerations about therapy and holy medical observations in Iacopo da Varagine's Cronica Civitatis Ianuensis].

The article is dedicated to recovery and holy therapy in Medieval society. In the XIII century Roman Church define the religious observations of physical and spiritual healing: the intervention of Saints and their holy miracles is very important for a perfect recovery. The article analyse the holy therapy through the study of the Cronica Civitatis Ianuensis read by the Dominican friar Iacopo da Varagine, at the end of the XIII century. This work represents one of the most important literary and hagiographic instrument to comprehend medical medieval imaginary.

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Current status of drug information centers.

The current status of drug information centers in the United States and trends that have developed over the past two decades were studied. In February 1990, questionnaires were sent to 218 pharmacist-operated drug information centers nationwide. The centers were identified through previously published directories and the ASHP electronic bulletin board PharmNet. The survey consisted of 182 questions designed to gather updated data on each drug information center. Responses to each question were coded individually, and data were analyzed by using a statistical analysis program. One hundred fifty-four drug information centers responded; of these, 130 provided usable responses. The results showed that the number of drug information centers has increased compared with earlier surveys. Also, the centers handle substantially larger workloads. Few drug information centers indicate a fee-for-service system. Computer use and online searching by drug information centers have increased. Most of the centers participate in the formal education of pharmacy students. Increases in the number of drug information centers and in their workload substantiate the growing importance of these centers to the health-care professions.

Computers↗

Darwinian criminality theory: a tragic chapter in history.

Darwinists once believed that individual human beings occasionally reverted, both physically and mentally, to a prehuman stage of evolutionary development. This person was called an atavistic criminal type. As a result of this belief, the focus in Darwinian criminology was on identifying the criminal type who should be imprisoned permanently to protect society, even if the particular offense committed was minor. Conversely, if a "non-criminal type" committed even a serious offense, it was an aberration, and therefore, they concluded, imprisonment would serve no purpose. Darwinian criminologists believed punishment must fit the criminal and not the crime. Criminologists widely adopted this theory to explain crime and, as a result, it influenced both public opinion and official policy. The "criminal physical type" stereotype is still very much with us, even though the theory of evolutionary throwbacks (atavisms) as a causative factor in criminality was empirically disproved decades ago.

Biological Evolution↗

[The first publication and the first manual on forensic medicine in Bulgaria].

The authors find out that during the whole period of the Ottoman yoke in our country there is only one publication on forensic medicine which is a Russian translation. Immediately after the Liberation of Bulgaria D. Pasmanik/ a Russian doctor, who has been working in our country/ has written the first manual on forensic medicine entitled 'Conclusions of the Forensic medicine' published in the the 'Juristic Review' journal.

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