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The demise of bloodletting

open access: yesJournal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2014
Bloodletting was a practice favoured by doctors and barber-surgeons for many centuries, and is now, perhaps surprisingly, still employed for a few specific indications. The effectiveness of bloodletting for treating diseases such as pneumonia was convincingly challenged in the mid-nineteenth century, but medical conservatism ensured the practice ...
openaire   +2 more sources

War as a Phenomenon of Inquiry in Management Studies

open access: yesJournal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract We argue that war as a phenomenon deserves more focused attention in management. First, we highlight why war is an important and relevant area of inquiry for management scholars. We then integrate scattered conversations on war in management studies into a framework structured around three building blocks – (a) the nature of war from an ...
Fabrice Lumineau, Arne Keller
wiley   +1 more source

Iron overload in functional hyperandrogenism: in a randomized trial, bloodletting does not improve metabolic outcomes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
15 p.Context: Functional hyperandrogenism may be associated with a mild increase in body iron stores. Iron depletion exerts a beneficial effect on metabolic endpoints in other iron overload states.
Quintero Tobar, Alejandra   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Bloodletting cupping combined with conventional measures therapy for psoriasis: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

open access: yesFrontiers in Medicine, 2023
BackgroundPsoriasis is an immune-mediated inflammatory disease prone to recurrence. Some studies indicated that bloodletting cupping combined with conventional measures therapy had been proposed as a treatment strategy for psoriasis.
Xiaoyu Ma   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Two Nationalisms, One City: Official and Diasporic Framings of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyses the contested collective memories of the 2019 Anti‐Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti‐ELAB) movement, investigating how the Hong Kong government and diaspora construct divergent narratives to shape national identity and nationalism.
Isaac Iu
wiley   +1 more source

Self-Bloodletting: An Unusual Form of Self-Mutilation in Adolescence

open access: yesEurasian Journal of Medicine, 2019
In this paper, we introduce an adolescent suffering from a rare form of self-mutilation, “self-bloodletting”, and discuss dynamics of this maladaptive behavior.
Onur Burak   +2 more
doaj  

Efficacy of Vitex pseudo‐negundo in a Bovine Mastitis Model Experimentally Induced by Staphylococcus aureus in Rats

open access: yesVeterinary Medicine and Science, Volume 12, Issue 4, July 2026.
This study evaluated the therapeutic efficacy of Vitex pseudo‐negundo (VPN) extracts in a Staphylococcus aureus‐induced mastitis rat model. Following extraction with water, methanol and petroleum ether, in vitro MICs were determined. Rats established with mastitis received 5‐day treatments.
Hüseyin Koç   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blood Relatives: Linking Evolutionary History and Conservation of Medicinal Leeches (Hirudo spp.)

open access: yesEvolutionary Applications, Volume 19, Issue 6, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Medicinal leeches of the genus Hirudo are both historically important in medicine and increasingly studied as models in ecology and biomedicine. However, the taxonomy, population structure and evolutionary history of this genus remain partially unresolved.
Gianluca Lombardo   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multiple consecutive daily therapeutic plasma exchange using exclusively albumin replacement fluid in low bleeding risk patients is associated with only rare and mild bleeds

open access: yesTransfusion, Volume 66, Issue 5, Page 903-909, May 2026.
Abstract Background Therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) using exclusively albumin replacement fluid depletes coagulation factors, particularly fibrinogen, and concerns about performing multiple consecutive daily procedures due to iatrogenic bleeding exist. Fibrinogen testing to guide bleeding risk stratification is vague.
Jay S. Raval   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical observation on holographic meridian scraping therapy combined with auricular bloodletting therapy in treating primary hypertension in the elderly (全息经络刮痧联合耳尖放血疗法治疗老年高血压病临床观察)

open access: yes中西医结合护理, 2021
Objective To investigate the effect of holographic meridian scraping therapy combined with auricular bloodletting therapy in the treatment of elderly patients with primary hypertension. Methods Totally 60 elderly patients with primary hypertension were
ZHEN Chao (郑超)   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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