Editorial
The Philosophical Basis of the Experimental Method
The application of the experimental approach to Science and Medicine has its roots in the 16th century. William Harvey (1578-1657), who demonstrated the passage...
Epidemiology in the Post-Genomic Era
To the clinical specialists, epidemiology appears to be a hyphenated word associated with their clinical specialty: for example, cancer-epidemiology, cardiovascular-epidemiology, infectious disease-epidemiology and occupational-epidemiology....
Evaluating Drugs from Cradle to Grave—Evolving Systems for a Complex Activity
Are medicines dangerous chemicals or life enhancing agents? The answer is ‘Both of those things, often at the same time, and worse in the...
Orlistat (Xenical) in the Management of Obesity
The term “obesity” implies an excess of adipose tissue (fat) and excess adiposity is a health risk. In most cases it develops in the...
Dissecting Complex Genetic Diseases: Promises and Perils
Advances in molecular techniques and technology have unravelled many of the secrets of diseases caused by single gene defects. In particular, the race to...
An Open Invitation from the International Poverty and Health Network to All Health Professionals...
Always and everywhere, the challenge for all health professionals is to understand, from a position of relative comfort, the nature and extent of the...
Complementary Medicine and Evidence
While clinical medicine is increasingly governed by demands for evidence-based practice and biomedical research increasingly moves towards molecular approaches in the search for new...
Evidence-based Complementary Medicine—Challenges and Future Directions
There is considerable interest in complementary medicine (CM) and the usage of various alternative therapies is reportedly at an all-time high in the West....
Delirium in patients following general anaesthesia
Delirium is a disturbance of consciousness characterised by an acute onset and fluctuating course of inattention, accompanied by either a change in cognition or...
The relationship between major depressive disorder and employment status
Major depressive disorder is associated with executive dysfunction that includes impairment in problem-solving and decision-making,1 as well as with occupational impairment.2 One of the...