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The Founding of the National Medical Association [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In 1869, a mere four years after the end of the Civil War and during a time when Southern sentiment ran high in Washington, D.C., three African-American physicians applied for membership into the all-white Medical Society of the District of Columbia ...
Morris, Karen
core   +1 more source

The introduction of sickness insurance in Spain in the first decades of the Franco dictatorship (1939-1962) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
[Abstract:]Using new statistical data on financing, coverage and economic and health care provisions, this article analyses how sickness insurance was introduced, managed and extended in Spain, under the Franco dictatorship, between 1939 and 1962. This
Pons Pons, Jerònia   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Enhancing patient engagement in cancer research: a focus on patient‐centric approaches to scientific discovery

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Patient engagement involves actively including patients in healthcare decisions and research to ensure care and studies align with their needs. This approach improves outcomes, trust, and communication while fostering collaboration between patients and professionals.
Estela Cepeda   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conservative management of low back pain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Back pain is prevalent worldwide, but back pain disability has reached epidemic proportions in many industrialised societies. Few patients have serious medical pathology or direct neurological involvement requiring surgery.
De Souza, LH, Frank, AO
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Geriatric Medical Education and Training in the United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Medical education in geriatrics is an important requirement to ready the profession to provide comprehensive health care to the world's and also Taiwan's aging population.
Hou, Lein-Tuan   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

MEDICAL SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS. [PDF]

open access: yesJAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1883
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openaire   +3 more sources

The roles and applications of extracellular vesicles in cancer

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are minute versions of cells limited by a lipid bilayer containing cytoplasm from the cell that releases them, but without a nucleus and thus unable to self‐reproduce. EVs contain multiple molecules (proteins, lipids, glycans, and nucleic acids) they can induce complex responses in cells.
Clotilde Théry, Daniel Louvard
wiley   +1 more source

The Sopono cult and smallpox vaccinations in Lagos [PDF]

open access: yes, 1979
African Studies Center Working Paper No. 11INTRODUCTION: This paper examines the question of how African societies view conditions which Western society calls "disease," and how Africans respond to Western-oriented medical efforts to deal with "disease."
Morgan, Robert W.
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Highly multiplexed digital PCR assay for simultaneous quantification of variant allele frequencies and copy number alterations of KRAS and GNAS in pancreatic cancer precursors

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Combining melting curve analysis enhances the multiplexing capability of digital PCR. Here, we developed a 14‐plex assay to simultaneously measure single nucleotide mutations and amplifications of KRAS and GNAS, which are common driver genes in pancreatic cancer precursors. This assay accurately quantified variant allele frequencies in clinical samples
Junko Tanaka   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are Italian medical societies bridging the distance from citizen and patients? associations? Results of a survey. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Introduction. In the framework of PartecipaSalute ? an Italian research project aimed to involve lay people, patients? associa- tions and scientific-medical representatives on the health debate ?
Colombo, C   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

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