• In Africa, herbal medicines are often used as primary treatment for Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) related problems. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Concurrent use of traditional herbal medicines (THM) with antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) is widespread among HIV infected patients. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 4 billion people, which is 80% of the world's population, presently use herbal medicines for some aspect of primary health care in conjunction with conventional medicines [ 6 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Objectives To examine the prevalence, determinants, safety perceptions, effectiveness and knowledge of herbal medicines (HMs) and reasons for non-hospital utilisation. (mendeley.com)
  • This systematic review aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of herbal medicines acting directly on the affected area of acute gouty arthritis for external use. (bvsalud.org)
  • Randomized controlled trials on external use herbal medicines for acute gouty arthritis were considered. (bvsalud.org)
  • CONCLUSIONS: This systematic review and meta-analysis suggests that external use herbal medicines may be a safe and effective alternative for treatment of pain and symptoms of acute gouty arthritis. (bvsalud.org)
  • Herbal medicines have gained recognition among physicians and patients due to their lower adverse effects compared to modern medicines. (bvsalud.org)
  • Unfortunately, the clinical application of herbal medicines is limited by their low solubility and inadequate bioavailability. (bvsalud.org)
  • Utilizing herbal medicines in the form of nanocrystals (herbal medicine nanocrystals) has shown potential in enhancing solubility and bioavailability by reducing the particle size, increasing the specific surface area, and modifying the absorption mechanisms. (bvsalud.org)
  • Approaches like the latter are isolated from their cultural and religious roots by the Western complementary and alternative medicine and directed against migraine. (unexplained-mysteries.com)
  • Allopathic medical professionals in developed nations have started to collaborate with traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine (TCAM) to enquire on the role of religion/spirituality (r/s) in patient care. (researchgate.net)
  • However the management of HAART side effects has remained a challenge in many resource limited settings[ 5 ], hence the increased use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 1, 37-43. (beliefnet.com)
  • For example, more research is needed to understand how behavioral and sociocultural factors interact with biological factors to affect the health of women over their life stages. (cdc.gov)
  • OCD is treated using a combination of medicine and behavioral therapy. (medlineplus.gov)
  • cardiovascular diseases, cancer and diabetes which share common behavioral risk factors (tobacco, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and the harmful use of alcohol). (who.int)
  • Factors like religion may also affect people's decision making in terms of organ donation. (researchsquare.com)
  • Cultural factors that come with people's race, gender, religion, etc., should not be associated with testing when getting that test is clearly not beneficial to the patient and potentially harmful. (chp.edu)
  • Therefore, when deciding how to bring about beneficial behavior change, we must consider genetic, constitutional, and psychosocial factors such as people's level of knowledge and intelligence as well as their ego identity, coping strategy, social support system, religion, philosophy, and attitude toward health maintenance. (cdc.gov)
  • It means we must listen to people in the communities we want to serve to learn about their areas of concern, and we must recognize that people's life experience is an important factor in whether they are willing to change and what will inspire them to do so. (cdc.gov)
  • Include mental health as a key factor in improving people's well-being, with an emphasis on changing attitudes, increasing self-knowledge, becoming responsible, and being empowered. (cdc.gov)
  • 5 ), we find that interpersonal factors, sociocultural factors, public policies, and physical environment ( 6 ) all affect how people perceive their lives and use the resources available to them. (cdc.gov)
  • 27.3% reported that using herbal remedies over conventional medicine was a family tradition, and 21.4% used herbs because they were cheaper than conventional medicines. (bvsalud.org)
  • Some of these approaches are rooted in medieval or pre-Christian European medicine systems, others go back to non-Western medicine. (unexplained-mysteries.com)
  • In such approaches often inspired by Eastern religions, the cure of diseases is "only" a welcome side effect. (unexplained-mysteries.com)
  • Students should come away from the course with a greater understanding of critical issues facing religious communities historically and in the world today, with a greater appreciation of the diversity of world religions within the United States, and with a grounding in influential scholarly approaches to the study of religion. (pugetsound.edu)
  • David C. Spendlove, Dee W. West, and William M. Stanish, "Risk Factors and the Prevalence of Depression in Mormon Women," in Religion, Mental Health, and the Latter-day Saints , ed. (byu.edu)
  • This study aimed at determining the prevalence and factors associated with THM use among HIV infected patients on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) attending The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) in Uganda. (biomedcentral.com)
  • associate professor of pediatrics, emergency medicine and radiology at Pitt, and medical director of point-of-care ultrasound at UPMC Children's Hospital. (chp.edu)
  • On November 3, 4 and 7, the 2022 International Space Medicine Summit (ISMS) brought together leading experts from the world's spacefaring nations for a series of high-level discussions exploring advances in space medicine research and opportunities for international collaboration. (bakerinstitute.org)
  • To further examine risk factors for depression in women, especially the relationship between employment and depression, we conducted a study in the Salt Lake City, Utah metropolitan area. (byu.edu)
  • We conducted a confirmatory factor analysis, using the Satorra-Bentler correction, to examine the factor structure of the Brief-RCOPE. (researchgate.net)
  • By examining several diverse religious communities and traditions--including Lakota Sioux, Southern Pentecostal, Nation of Islam, and Zen Buddhist--we examine patterns, themes, and issues that scholars commonly encounter across world religions. (pugetsound.edu)
  • We also examine how specific communities give voice to themes found within the larger world religion from which they emerge. (pugetsound.edu)
  • The papers examine the nature and limits of the patient-physician relationship, issues relating to medical ethics, the working of consent and confidentiality, and the link between law and medicine. (dkprintworld.com)
  • Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine how the factors suggested by the Terror Management Theory are associated with death anxiety among rural Chinese older adults. (syr.edu)
  • The book contains papers presented at a workshop on patient-physician relationship, organised by Jadavpur University, by thinkers from various disciplines like religion, philosophy and law discussing medical ethics, consent and confidentiality, gender-related differences, etc. (dkprintworld.com)
  • As a consequence of precision medicine initiatives, genomic technologies have rapidly spread around the world, raising questions about genetic privacy and the ethics of data sharing. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Ethics of artificial intelligence in prenatal and pediatric genomic medicine. (cdc.gov)
  • From the abstract: ' This paper examines the ethics of introducing emerging forms of artificial intelligence (AI) into prenatal and pediatric genomic medicine. (cdc.gov)
  • A new review examines research that finds spiritual fitness, a new concept in medicine that centers on psychological and spiritual wellbeing, and Kirtan Kriya, a simple 12-minute meditative practice, may reduce multiple risk factors for AD. (sciencedaily.com)
  • A new review in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease , published by IOS Press, examines research that finds spiritual fitness, a new concept in medicine that centers on psychological and spiritual wellbeing, and Kirtan Kriya, a simple 12-minute meditative practice, may reduce multiple risk factors for AD. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Using salutogenesis (origins of health) as a model for public health practice rather than pathogenesis (origins of disease) allows us to focus on factors that support and increase well-being rather than on factors that merely prevent disease. (cdc.gov)
  • Man cures, God heals : religion and medical practice among the Akans of Ghana / Kofi Appiah-Kubi. (who.int)
  • They hypothesized that if the increasing rate of ASD is due to sociological, rather than biological, factors then proximity should play a role. (sciencebasedmedicine.org)
  • Exploring how religion and cultural factors interact with public policy issues. (bakerinstitute.org)
  • With respect to the policy preconditions enabling sprightly entrepreneurship, and the cultural factors that lie even deeper, Joel Mokyr asserts that "culture is not independent of political and institutional circumstances. (cei.org)
  • Medical sociology is simply the study of the effects of social and cultural factors on health and medicine. (kembrel.com)
  • Sociology in medicine is applied work that is motivated by the medical establishment rather than by sociological inquiry. (kembrel.com)
  • Even after controlling for confounding factors, such as health insurance, diagnosis and household income, the data showed that doctors were ordering significantly fewer imaging tests for Black and Hispanic children than for White children. (chp.edu)
  • Further we can have an insight into a medieval pharmacy with herbs and medicines used for prevention or for healing of the disease. (sznm.ro)
  • Herbert Benson, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and founder of the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Boston's Deaconess Hospital has also written extensively on this subject. (beliefnet.com)
  • According to miasmatists however, epidemic was caused by invisible environmental agents or factors, so they attempted to clean the air and used herbs, scents, fire, while emphasizing the importance of hygiene, dietetics, and the proper burial of the dead. (sznm.ro)
  • Health is profoundly affected by certain conditions commonly referred to as the "social determinants of health".1, 2 These factors relate to the physical, social and economic environments in which people live, and they affect health by impacting on peoples' living circumstances and quality of life. (who.int)
  • Bioethics seeks to answer questions and resolve problems that change along with developments in medicine and biology. (philpapers.org)
  • Health and medicine in the Islamic tradition : change and identity / Fazlur Rahman. (who.int)
  • The approach is a cousin to Buddhism and a cousin to Daoism, with elements of traditional Chinese science and medicine included as well. (faluninfo.net)
  • Morehouse School of Medicine stands at the vanguard of efforts to achieve health equity for people of color and the underserved in urban and rural populations, to advance a diverse healthcare workforce, and to ensure biomedical discoveries permeate such that all communities can realize the promise of science. (abfe.org)
  • And as our society broadly reassesses matters of race and equity, reorders priorities, embraces community, and looks to science, medicine, and public policy to extend and improve quality of life, MSM's critical leadership role has been further highlighted. (abfe.org)
  • Health personnel shall respect traditional and/or ancestral medical systems, the development of their own models of care and shall seek to articulate the provision of health services with the practices of traditional and/or ancestral medicine, thus making it possible to respond to the needs of indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants and others in their socio-cultural context and in the territory they inhabit. (bvsalud.org)
  • The papers presented at a workshop on ßpatient-physician relationship,û organized by Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, have thinkers from various disciplines like religion, philosophy and law discussing a range of issues involved in patient-physician understanding. (dkprintworld.com)
  • Back as far as 1990, over 250 studies have shown that religion plays a significant outcome in physical health. (beliefnet.com)
  • BACKGROUND: Herbal medicine is commonly integrated with conventional medicine in Saudi Arabia, especially for the management of digestive disorders. (bvsalud.org)
  • Diseases were seen to cause a breakdown of the human body that functioned as a machine, and the role of medicine is to repair and make the body functional again. (epw.in)
  • The wide spread of migraine also finds its expression in the number of treatments beyond scientific medicine. (unexplained-mysteries.com)
  • In addition, some African nations such as South Africa, the Ministry of Health is currently promoting the use of traditional medicines for the treatment of HIV and associated symptoms [ 10 ] In the case of South Africa, the Ministry of Health is actively promoting the use of traditional medicines concurrently with antiretroviral treatments [ 10 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This thematic study will enable students to gain an understanding of how medicine and public health developed in Britain over a long period of time. (aqa.org.uk)
  • Although the focus of this study is the development of medicine and public health in Britain, it will draw on wider world developments that impacted on the core themes. (aqa.org.uk)
  • He shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Rita Levi-Montalcini for their work on the discovery of growth factors. (asu.edu)
  • His work led to the discovery of many other growth factors and their roles in development. (asu.edu)
  • The International Space Station provides an excellent laboratory to conduct space medicine research, which can be optimized through cooperative studies and sharing equipment and instruments between the international partners. (bakerinstitute.org)
  • technology collections related to Samuel Morse and his telegraph as well as objects illustrating recent research into religion and the brain. (si.edu)
  • This research examines the psychometric properties and factor structure of the Brief Religious Coping Scale (Brief-RCOPE) in a sample of 302 Puerto Rican adults. (researchgate.net)
  • Over the past five years, Morehouse School of Medicine has continued to see sustained momentum as their enrollment, research, and resources have grown substantially. (abfe.org)
  • The authors discuss the research on how these factors affect brain function and cognition. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Irfan has repeatedly encouraged his followers to use fennel flowers - a traditional medicine popular since ancient Egypt - to cure illnesses. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • This is one of our measurement problems in assessing the depth of linkages between regulation and entrepreneurship, and meanwhile one of the factors that makes measuring regulation impossible. (cei.org)
  • CSW said it has urged the international community "to remind the Eritrean government of its international and constitutional obligations with regard to freedom of religion and the humane treatment of prisoners, and to urge the regime to permit all detainees to have unhindered access to immediate family members, medical treatment, and legal representation. (bosnewslife.com)
  • All assessed outcomes including pain, inflammation, and uric acid levels, indicated that the treatment effects in the external use herbal medicine group were significantly better than those of the western medicine control group. (bvsalud.org)
  • Few studies have explored factors influencing medication adherence and treatment satisfaction among adults, with little focus on adolescents. (bvsalud.org)
  • Objectives: To assess medication adherence, treatment satisfaction and factors influencing adherence to ART medication among adolescents living with HIV in Lagos, Nigeria. (bvsalud.org)
  • This study was set to determine the magnitude of OIs and associated factors among HIV/AIDS patients on Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) attending care and treatment clinic at Bombo Regional Referral hospital, Tanga region. (bvsalud.org)
  • RÉSUMÉ Afin d'examiner les attitudes des étudiants en dernière année de médecine à l'Université de Khartoum à l'égard de l'euthanasie, un questionnaire anonyme a été soumis à 141 étudiants. (who.int)
  • The aim of this study was to investigate the attitudes of the final year medical students of a Sudanese university toward euthanasia, and to determine factors that influence these attitudes in order to initiate a regional and national debate on this highly controversial issue. (who.int)
  • Factors that may play a role include head injury, infections, and abnormal function in certain areas of the brain. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Reformations occurred, Mokyr noted, not just in religion but also in "astronomy, chemistry, medicine, mathematics and philosophy" that filtered down to the manufacture of everyday goods. (cei.org)
  • In both samples of women, certain risk factors were identified: less education, little perceived caring from spouse, perception of having less than good health, and low income. (byu.edu)
  • A growing body of evidence finds that targeting lifestyle and vascular risk factors have a beneficial effect on overall cognitive performance. (sciencedaily.com)
  • J.D.A.) analyzed each transcript by using an open and se- ushmeat hunting and butchery are risk factors for lective coding approach. (cdc.gov)
  • The range of interventions adopted has largely been determined by the epidemiology of the NCD burden in Papua New Guinea, the risk factors, e.g. betel nut chewing, and the availability of resources. (who.int)
  • Stanley Cohen is a biochemist who participated in the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF) and epidermal growth factor (EGF). (asu.edu)
  • The OMA encourages institutions that intersect any part of the pathway in medicine to actively work to increase recruitment to and retention within the medical professions of diverse members. (theoma.org)
  • The willingness of the family of a deceased donor to honor the will of their relative is the most important factor to make eye donation possible. (researchsquare.com)
  • How and why have different factors been more important than others for individual medical developments? (aqa.org.uk)
  • While the MUI fatwa is not legally binding, it is still seen by Muslims as an important factor in helping them decide what is halal and what is haram. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • In each case, particular attention is paid to the role of religion in social justice and salvation movements, and in the formation of individual and group identities. (pugetsound.edu)
  • They look into the role of culture as a determining factor in the patient-physician relationship and the impact of religious beliefs and values on the relationship. (dkprintworld.com)
  • promotes the articulation of activities between health professionals and traditional medicine, under the concept of complementarity and with the use of norms and agreements that guarantee timely and quality care for the population, and respect for the decisions of individuals and communities. (bvsalud.org)
  • Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) is highly regarded as the premier institution among U.S. medical schools for its social mission and health equity thought leadership. (abfe.org)
  • Founded in 1975 as the Medical Education Program of Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine became an independently chartered institution in 1981. (abfe.org)
  • Task Force members recognize that not all facets of equity are thoroughly addressed in this document, and the OMA commits to continuing to advance equity work with attention to additional areas, including but not limited to systemic racism, disability communities, international medical graduates, and religion. (theoma.org)
  • Long before Jesus, Aesclepius was a healer hero who may have lived around 1200 BC, but became deified as the God of medicine, carrying Hermes' caduceus which is still the symbol of the medical profession today. (dhushara.com)
  • Age, gender identity, race, religion and belief of disability are some of the factors that can impact how a person experiences menopause. (bma.org.uk)
  • In a recent article by Dr. Simon Yu, "Metaphysics and Medicine: Metamorphosis of Modern Medicine into Pseudo-Religion , " he reflects upon an essay written by Dr. Larry Malerba, DO from New York. (preventionandhealing.com)
  • According to Dr. Malerba, in a condensed version, modern medicine projects the image of scientific rigor but has all the hallmarks of a system of religious belief. (preventionandhealing.com)
  • The increasing use of collagen in the cosmetic and the pharmaceutical industry are the main factors responsible for the high demand for collagen in the market. (researchandmarkets.com)
  • This interaction of religious ideas with scientific and technological advances are one of the most significant factors in the development of spiritual traditions and communities in the U. S. Discovery and Revelation looks at critical religious and scientific crossroads across three centuries, beginning with a 1721 controversy concerning smallpox and Puritan notions of divine judgement, and ending with encounters of technology and belief in the digital age. (si.edu)
  • The Commission will support countries and global health partners to address the social factors leading to ill-health and inequities. (who.int)