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From alternative medicine to ‘alternative science’? [PDF]

open access: yesClinical Medicine, 2010
Most forms of alternative medicine are ancient and long precede the scientific era. Acupuncture and herbal medicine, for instance, were being practised millennia before healthcare ever made serious attempts to become scientific and, after it did, these treatments remained firmly out of the realm ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Lifestyle Behaviors and Cardiotoxic Treatment Risks in Adult Childhood Cancer Survivors

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Higher doses of anthracyclines and heart‐relevant radiotherapy increase cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. This study assessed CVD and CVD risk factors among adult childhood cancer survivors (CCSs) across cardiotoxic treatment risk groups and examined associations between lifestyle behaviors and treatment risks.
Ruijie Li   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cerebrospinal Fluid Liquid Biopsy Enables Targeted Therapy Without Tissue Diagnosis in Pediatric Low‐Grade Gliomas With BRAF V600E Mutation

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We present two pediatric cases of pediatric low‐grade gliomas (PLGG) with BRAF V600E mutations diagnosed and monitored using cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) liquid biopsy analyzed via digital droplet PCR (ddPCR), without tissue biopsy. Both patients were treated with dabrafenib and trametinib and monitored through clinical assessments, magnetic ...
Hannah Sultan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in Body Composition in Children and Young People Undergoing Treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ongoing evidence indicates increased risk of sarcopenic obesity among children and young people (CYP) with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), often beginning early in treatment, persisting into survivorship. This review evaluates current literature on body composition in CYP with ALL during and after treatment.
Lina A. Zahed   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge, Attitude, Behavior of Malay Community towards Traditional Chinese Medicine

open access: yesChinese Medicine and Culture
. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) was introduced to Malaysia in the 18th century by Chinese migrants and has since become a recognized part of the country’s pluralistic healthcare system.
Sin Wei Tang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biological quality and phytochemical profiling of olive fruits using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GCMS) analysis

open access: yesChemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture, 2023
The quality of olive fruit (OF) is widely affected due to geographical variation, affecting OF's chemical composition and biological properties. It is a novel and first-time study to evaluate the quality variation of 42 olive samples from different ...
Rizwan Ahmad   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Alternative Medicine, Alternative Politics [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Affairs, 2004
Until recently, the dominant account of Western medicine in the twentieth century was the story of the rise of a monolithic creature called scientific medicine or biomedicine. In this story, mainstream medicine became more and more reductive in outlook and dominated by laboratory research and technology.
openaire   +1 more source

Predicting Chronicity in Children and Adolescents With Newly Diagnosed Immune Thrombocytopenia at the Timepoint of Diagnosis Using Machine Learning‐Based Approaches

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To identify predictors of chronic ITP (cITP) and to develop a model based on several machine learning (ML) methods to estimate the individual risk of chronicity at the timepoint of diagnosis. Methods We analyzed a longitudinal cohort of 944 children enrolled in the Intercontinental Cooperative immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) Study ...
Severin Kasser   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

An approach to enhanced stability: Formulation and characterization of Solanum lycopersicum derived lycopene based topical emulgel

open access: yesSaudi Pharmaceutical Journal, 2018
Focus of the study was to design a novel and cost effective extraction technique for the lycopene from Lycopersicum esculentum L. fruit and to develop and characterize a stable emulgel formulation containing lycopene as an active ingredient as well as to
Muhammad Sohail   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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