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Chapter 39 - Past, present, and future

We discuss the evolution, phylogenetic relations to right whales, and geographical distribution of bowhead whales. We summarize its relations to humans, including whaling by indigenous and European whalers, conservation efforts, and modern challenges…

Tags: 2021, Balaena mysticetus, bowhead whale, conservation, History, International Whaling Commission, Inupiat, life history, prehistoric, whaling

Chapter 39 - Past, present, and future

We discuss the evolution, phylogenetic relations to right whales, and geographical distribution of bowhead whales. We summarize its relations to humans, including whaling by indigenous and European whalers, conservation efforts, and modern challenges…

Tags: 2021, Balaena mysticetus, bowhead whale, conservation, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, George JC, History, International Whaling Commission, Inupiat, January 2021 List, journalArticle, life history, NEOMED College of Medicine, prehistoric, The Bowhead Whale, Thewissen JGM, whaling

The Devil Is in the Detail

Tags: 2020, Department of Internal Medicine, History, history and physical examination, Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice, Journal Article, journalArticle, June 2020 Update I, lost art, McCorcle Cameron S, Myers Joseph P, NEOMED College of Medicine, physical diagnosis, sexually transmitted infections, Summa Health System Akron City Hospital

Statistical Consulting As Alchemy

Tags: 1994, Amer Statist Assoc, Book/Monograph, Ethics, History, Jarjoura D, Psychology, Speight J D

A diagnostic aid for detecting (DSM-IV) mental disorders in primary care

This study was designed to develop and validate a new computerized version of the Symptom Driven Diagnostic System for Primary Care (SDDS-PC) and example its feasi bility in primary care practice. One thousand and one patients (ages 18-70) coming for…

Cancer risk assessment: Examining the family physician's role

Background: Cancer risk assessment begins in the primary care clinician's office. Essential components of that process include: 1) documentation of personal and family cancer information; 2) identification of families at increased risk for cancer; 3)…

Tags: 2006, Colonoscopy, colorectal-cancer, Department of Family & Community Medicine, General & Internal Medicine, History, individuals, Journal Article, Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, Knowledge, NEOMED College of Medicine, ovarian-cancer, racial-differences, screening practices, Snyder C W, surveillance, susceptibility, Tyler C V

Safety of Intravenous Infusion of Doripenem

Carbapenems remain a mainstay for the empirical treatment of serious nosocomial infection. Although the tolerance and safety profile of the carbapenems as a class is favorable, the primary safety concern is the potential for treatment-emergent…

Tags: 2009, Antibiotics, Carbapenems, Clinical Infectious Diseases, ertapenem, File T M, History, Hypersensitivity, imipenem, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Journal Article, meropenem, Microbiology, penicillin allergy, Redman R, Seizures

A medieval physician: Amirdovlat Amasiatsi (1420-1495)

We aimed to acquaint the reader with a medieval physician, Amirdovlat Amasiatsi, who lived and practiced in the 15th century Anatolia. Amirdovlat wrote several books on medicine mainly focusing on phytotherapy and pharmacology using medicinal plants,…

The private remonstrance of Doctor Botkin, or Pharaoh's physician.

Tags: *Famous Persons, 19th Century, 2008, History, Humans, Physician-Patient Relations, Physicians/*history, Politics, Russia, Schoenfeld Andrew J, The Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha-Honor Medical Society. Alpha Omega Alpha, Violence/*history

Rhabdomyolysis in antiquity. From ancient descriptions to scientific explication.

Tags: *Quail, 1998, Ancient, Animals, Foodborne Diseases/complications/*history, Geib J D, Hemlock/poisoning, History, Humans, Meat/history/poisoning, Medieval, Ognibene A J, Plants, Rhabdomyolysis/etiology/*history, Rutecki G W, The Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha-Honor Medical Society. Alpha Omega Alpha, Toxic

Rheumatoid arthritis at a time of passage.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the relationship of what has been called pre-Columbian Old World rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to the RA identified in pre-Columbian North America. METHODS: All published claims of pre-Columbian Old World RA were reviewed against…

Tags: 2001, Ancient, Arthritis, Europe, History, Humans, North America, Rheumatoid/*history, Rothschild B M, The Journal of rheumatology

Origins of spondyloarthropathy in Perissodactyla.

OBJECTIVE: Spondyloarthropathy has clearly been documented as not limited in occurrence to humans. Transmammalian in nature, it is of interest to understand the antiquity, and perhaps the origins, of this disorder in animal groups sufficiently…

The Dunlop-Dottridge Memorial Lecture. Paleopathology as a clinical science with implications for patient care, education, and research.

Tags: *Paleopathology, 1996, Ancient, Animals, History, Humans, Rheumatic Diseases/*history, Rothschild B M, The Journal of rheumatology

On the antiquity of treponemal infection.

Documentation of the treponemal etiology of reactive bone formation in a pleistocene bear supports unprecedented antiquity of treponemal bone infections. The spectrum and implications of osseous treponemal disease in the New and Old World are…

Tags: 15th Century, 1989, Ancient, Animals, History, Humans, Medical hypotheses, Rothschild B M, Syphilis/*history, Ursidae, Yaws/*history

Historical perspective on the evolution of today's military field anesthesia machine.

Tags: *Equipment Design, 1990, 20th Century, Anesthesiology/history/*instrumentation, Forecasting, History, Military medicine, Military Medicine/history/*instrumentation, Petty C, United States

Homeopathic medicine and presidential health: homeopathic influences upon two Ohio presidents.

Tags: *Famous Persons, 1997, 19th Century, 20th Century, Deppisch L M, History, Homeopathy/*history, Ohio, The Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha-Honor Medical Society. Alpha Omega Alpha

"Like a virgin": Absence of rheumatoid arthritis and treponematosis, good sanitation and only rare gout in Italy prior to the 15th century.

OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to test several hypotheses: 1. That rheumatoid arthritis and syphilis were New World diseases, only transmitted to the Old World subsequent to the passages of Christopher Columbus; 2. To indirectly test the…

Tags: *Fossils, 2004, Ancient, Arthritis, Coppa A, Gout/epidemiology/*history, History, Humans, Italy, Medieval, Petrone P P, Reumatismo, Rheumatoid/*history, Rothschild B M, Sanitation/*history/standards, Treponemal Infections/*history

Frequency of pathology in a large natural sample from Natural Trap Cave with special remarks on erosive disease in the Pleistocene.

Population data are presented for erosive arthritis, osteoarthritis, diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH), joint eburnation and dental injury in a fauna from Natural Trap Cave, Wyoming, represented by over thirty thousand bones from…

Tags: *Fossils, *Mammals, *Rheumatic Diseases/pathology/veterinary, 2003, Ancient, Animals, Bone and Bones/*pathology, History, Martin L D, Osteoarthritis/history/pathology/veterinary, Paleodontology, Paleopathology, Reumatismo, Rothschild B M

Correlation of Periodontal Disease With Inflammatory Arthritis in the Time Before Modern Medical Intervention.

BACKGROUND: Controversy exists regarding possible correlation of periodontal disease with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Confounding factors may relate to stringency of inflammatory disease diagnosis and the effect of…

Creating difficulties everywhere.

In this essay we link the rationale for the medical humanities with radical hermeneutics, a move that infuses the medical humanities with incredulity and suspicion. This orientation is particularly important at this historical moment, when the…

The University of California Institute of Environmental Stress marathon field studies.

In 1973, the Institute of Environmental Stress of the University of California-Santa Barbara, under the direction of Steven M. Horvath, began a series of field and laboratory studies of marathon runners during competition. As one of Horvath's…

Equatorius: a new hominoid genus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya.

A partial hominoid skeleton just older than 15 million years from sediments in the Tugen Hills of north central Kenya mandates a revision of the hominoid genus Kenyapithecus, a possible early member of the great ape-human clade. The Tugen Hills…

Commentary: Knowing it when we see it: reflections on pornography.

This commentary asks, of what contemporary use is the excavation of a specific incident of sexually intimidating and otherwise inappropriate behavior in medical education's history? The question is posed in response to the accompanying article by…

Medicine and the arts. Scenes from a Mastectomy [excerpt] by Alicia Ostriker. Commentary.

Tags: *Medicine in Literature, 2007, 20th Century, Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Breast Neoplasms/*psychology/*surgery, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Female, History, Humans, Mastectomy/*psychology, NEOMED College of Medicine, United States, Wear Delese

Reply to a letter by Inoue et al.

Tags: 2001, Ancient, Articular/pathology, Asian Continental Ancestry Group, Bone and Bones/pathology, Cartilage, China, European Continental Ancestry Group, France, History, Humans, Japan, Osteoarthritis/diagnosis/ethnology/*history, Paleopathology, Prevalence, Rheumatology (Oxford, England), Rothschild B M

Reminiscences of the early days of getting to know one of man's best friends.

Tags: *DNA Viruses/genetics/pathogenicity/physiology, *RNA Viruses/genetics/pathogenicity/physiology, 2007, 20th Century, 21st Century, Animals, History, Interferons/*history, Joklik Wolfgang K Bill, Journal of interferon & cytokine research : the official journal of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research, United States, Virology/*history

History of syphilis.

Evidence-based research now allows clear separation of syphilis from other diseases in its class of treponematoses. Examination of skeletons from populations with clinically diagnosed bejel and yaws revealed bone alterations distinctive to those…

Tags: 15th Century, 2005, Ancient, Bone Diseases/microbiology/pathology, Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, History, Humans, Rothschild Bruce M, Syphilis/*diagnosis/epidemiology/*history

Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex DNA from an extinct bison dated 17,000 years before the present.

In order to assess the presence of tuberculosis in Pleistocene bison and the origin of tuberculosis in North America, 2 separate DNA extractions were performed by 2 separate laboratories on samples from the metacarpal of an extinct long-horned bison…

First European exposure to syphilis: the Dominican Republic at the time of Columbian contact.

Recognition of syphilis in Europe in the late 15th century and its prior absence suggest New World origin. Skeletal populations were examined from sites with documented Columbian contact in the Dominican Republic. Examination of 536 skeletal remains…

A reminiscence.

The founding of the William Carlos Williams poetry competition for medical students is recounted. A few highlights from its nearly twenty-five years of operation are offered. Gleanings from the hearts and souls of some of the winning poets are…

Tags: *Awards and Prizes, *Medicine in Literature, *Students, 2005, 20th Century, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, alopecia, Disasters, History, Humans, Kohn Martin, Medical, Poetry as Topic/*history, The Journal of medical humanities, United States

No rheumatoid arthritis in ancient Egypt: a reappraisal.

Antiquity of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remains controversial, and its origins in Americas or in the Old World are disputed. Proponents of the latter frequently refer to RA in ancient Egypt, but validity of those claims has never been examined. Review…

Tags: *Dermatology, *Eponyms, *Terminology as Topic, 2013, 20th Century, Amarnani Ajay, Brodell Robert T, Department of Internal Medicine, Dermatology, History, Humans, JAMA dermatology, Mostow Eliot N, NEOMED College of Medicine, Nomenclature, Skin Diseases – History, Skin Diseases/*history

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Chapter 39 - Past, present, and future

Chapter 39 - Past, present, and future

The Devil Is in the Detail

Statistical Consulting As Alchemy

A diagnostic aid for detecting (DSM-IV) mental disorders in primary care

Cancer risk assessment: Examining the family physician's role

Safety of Intravenous Infusion of Doripenem

A medieval physician: Amirdovlat Amasiatsi (1420-1495)

The private remonstrance of Doctor Botkin, or Pharaoh's physician.

Rhabdomyolysis in antiquity. From ancient descriptions to scientific explication.

Rheumatoid arthritis at a time of passage.

Origins of spondyloarthropathy in Perissodactyla.

The Dunlop-Dottridge Memorial Lecture. Paleopathology as a clinical science with implications for patient care, education, and research.

On the antiquity of treponemal infection.

Historical perspective on the evolution of today's military field anesthesia machine.

Homeopathic medicine and presidential health: homeopathic influences upon two Ohio presidents.

"Like a virgin": Absence of rheumatoid arthritis and treponematosis, good sanitation and only rare gout in Italy prior to the 15th century.

Frequency of pathology in a large natural sample from Natural Trap Cave with special remarks on erosive disease in the Pleistocene.

Correlation of Periodontal Disease With Inflammatory Arthritis in the Time Before Modern Medical Intervention.

Creating difficulties everywhere.

The University of California Institute of Environmental Stress marathon field studies.

Equatorius: a new hominoid genus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya.

Commentary: Knowing it when we see it: reflections on pornography.

Medicine and the arts. Scenes from a Mastectomy [excerpt] by Alicia Ostriker. Commentary.

Reply to a letter by Inoue et al.

Reminiscences of the early days of getting to know one of man's best friends.

History of syphilis.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex DNA from an extinct bison dated 17,000 years before the present.

First European exposure to syphilis: the Dominican Republic at the time of Columbian contact.

A reminiscence.

No rheumatoid arthritis in ancient Egypt: a reappraisal.

Spondyloarthropathy identified as the etiology of Nubian erosive arthritis.

Andrew Jackson's exposure to mercury and lead: poisoned president?

Finding the evidence with eponyms.