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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Legal controls of the medical profession.

30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The authors, after a brief historical review of the theme, review the articles published in the last year. The purpose is to verify how the field has moved on during this period, as a constant increase of legal and social controls ... Read more...

Conference scene: nanotechnology and medicine: the next big thing is really small.

30 Jul 2009 Emerging trends from nanotechnology on a globalized scale have created the need for a platform to discuss advances and share developments in this fast growing field. A conference was held to attract a vast number of scientists, representatives from ... Read more...

[Medicine and truth: between science and narrative]

29 Jun 2009 To which idea of truth may medicine refer? Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is rooted in the scientific truth. To explain the meaning and to trace the evolution of scientific truth, this article outlines the history of the Scientific Revolution and of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Medicine'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Rubin Bressler 1928-2009. 21 Sep 2009
• Doctoring 2009: embracing the challenge. 7 Sep 2009
• Are higher quality papers cited more often? 5 Sep 2009
• Legal controls of the medical profession. 30 Aug 2009
• Conference scene: nanotechnology and medicine: the next big thing is really small. 30 Jul 2009
• Lucila Ohno-Machado. Interview by Virginia Gewin. 28 Jul 2009
• [Career path in German university medicine] 21 Jul 2009
• Passing the baton. 19 Jul 2009
• [Medical studies today: patient actors and "hammer examination"] 12 Jul 2009
• Paging Dr. Obama. 11 Jul 2009
• The "Excellence in Translational Medicine" and "Bedside-to-Bench" Awards 2007-08. 7 Jul 2009
• [Medicine and truth: between science and narrative] 29 Jun 2009
• Changes coming in regulation of medical profession. 29 Jun 2009
• Commentary: Conventional medicine is less than perfect. 29 Jun 2009
• Doctors in the movies: a user's guide to teaching about film and medicine. 29 Jun 2009
• Optical coherence tomography in biophotonics. 29 Jun 2009
• Development of sleep medicine in China. 18 Jun 2009
• One medicine, one pathology, and the one health concept. 13 Jun 2009
• Medicalisation of food advertising. Nutrition and health claims in magazine food advertisements 1990-2008. 10 Jun 2009
• Introduction to a special issue of Neuroimage on brain-body medicine. 8 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Medicine'

Definition: The art and science of preventing, diagnosing, and treating disease, as well as the maintenance of health.

Descriptor UI: D008511

Alternative terms: Medicine;

Related Mesh Headings: Economics, Medical; Education, Medical; History of Medicine; Legislation, Medical;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; instrumentation; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: H02.403;

Technical Notes: medicine only as a field, profession or discipline: differentiate from DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE where the patient is emphasized (see MeSH definition there); very general; avoid; it is divided broadly into experimental medicine ( = BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH) & CLINICAL MEDICINE, a specialty devoted to the diag & management of human patients; /legislation & jurisprudence = LEGISLATION, MEDICAL or JURISPRUDENCE or FORENSIC MEDICINE; legal med = FORENSIC MEDICINE or JURISPRUDENCE