Evidence-based medicine

Rogers. McIntyre, MD, FRCPC Evidence-Based Treatment of Bipolar Disorder, Bipolar Depression, and mixed Features (JUNE 2015) Vol. 64, No 6 Supplement to The Journal of Family Practice. Bipolar disorder (BPD) is usually found in the primary care setting. There is a high rate of people that are being misdiagnosed of BPD. Recognizing this early on is better to get treatment for these patients. Once a diagnosis is established the doctors will recommend and start drugs and mental…

by reference to the whole. Western Medicine: is a term sometimes used to describe evidence-based medicine, which, for various historical reasons, emerged from "Western" civilisation. Indigenous Medicine: is the sum total of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultures of a certain location or region. Traditional Medicine: systems of medicine developed before the era of modern medicine, based on…

untraceable to participants. Problem Description: Clinicians are expected to make the best health decision for their patients and communities. They are expected not just to base their decision on evidence-based medicine EBM, but to seek the best available medicine. In today’s fast evolving internet based databases, new medical literature is becoming available every minute. Although this rich amount of data provides diversity and ease of access it also makes decision-making very difficult. It…

Source Analysis Bad Medicine Better Medicine attempts to summarize, and examine the history of medicine, and how all medicine before 1865 can be considered bad. It wasn’t until the last century and a half did good medicine start to find its place in medical history. In Wootton’s opinion, it is said that the history of medicine has been often written by doctors, for doctors. Modern discoveries which should actually be considered good have only come about through evidence-based methods, entirely…

recognized as an active participant of the laboratory revolution, having discovered the milieu intérieur, or what we today refer to as homeostasis, and is also renowned for his reductionist approach to medicine and its most efficient evidence. His famous book, An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine, immediately makes evident, through its title, that he emphasizes the importance of experience as a method of gathering information. Consequently, the short excerpt from his book…

Many of medicines have been made possible through animal testing. Without animal testing, some of medicines that we know will not exist. Therefore, people will not have treatments to cure the disease and they would be dead and suffer from more than 200 diseases including diabetes and anthrax. As we have a treatments, some of diseases that humans used to suffer have been eliminated from most of the countries. Moreover, animals suffer from almost all of the disease that humans do. As a result,…

years of supervised release for advertising and selling a medicine called Laetrile to cancer patients. Martin mentions how, “There is no scientific evidence that Laetrile offers anything but false hope for cancer…

Medical care in pediatrics is complicated network that involves decision making from both a patient and care provider perspective. In contrast with adult medicine, patient consent to treatment is muddled by the challenge posed in treating for young children who may lack cognitive maturity to achieve the requisite capacity and understanding. In these instances, parents are allocated the role of substitute decision maker. In order to enforce the pillar of patient autonomy, parents are afforded the…

“cookie-cutter approach” to medicine is not best practice and a more concrete approach that offers some predictability about which patients are more or less likely to benefit from an intervention is favored. Precision medicine offers such an approach. Briefly precision medicine involves factoring in individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle into the decisions that guide the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease (1). In recent times, the precision medicine approach has…

the world was medicine, astronomy, and geography. Their are people that will argue with this statement, but, the evidence shows otherwise. Some may say that music is the most important Muslim innovation. It says in the Huffington Post “ The modern guitar developed as a result of many influences, but the Arabic Lute was an important predecessor.” Well that might be important but medicine is more important because according to the My World History it states “Ibn Sina wrote medicine and philosophy…