Modern medicine has achieved a lot in terms of successful treatment of childhood leukemia and lymphoma.
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Azithromycin and other antibiotics play an important part in modern medicine but are often used inappropriately.
Le Grand Albert is an encyclopedia of medieval and early modern medicine, including homemade remedies involving herbs, precious stones and animals.
And modern medicine has done a great job of extending our lives already.
But 1846 was well before life expectancy in general began to increase, and before modern medicine really got going.
The failures of modern medicine come not in its basic approach to health and disease but in three correctable areas.
Around 70, 000 people a year get a new hip and they are among the most successful operations in modern medicine.
One thing I learned big-time during this hospital stay is that modern medicine is still in many ways, not modern.
Age, thanks to the uneven advances of modern medicine, makes loners of people who have not previously lived by themselves.
That's because lactation is probably the only bodily function for which modern medicine has almost no training, protocol or knowledge.
If the crown prince and princess are turning to modern medicine, Japan is well-served by top specialists and the latest technologies.
He remarked that she had an absolute faith in the efficacy of modern medicine, though she was skeptical about the benefits of art.
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Nearly everything modern medicine does to control these invisible killers, further optimizes their resistance to our drugs and combat strategies, and hence their proliferation.
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That outlook does not even consider the bigger picture over the next decades coming as a consequence of the fantastic advances in modern medicine.
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Unrealistic expectations of modern medicine to achieve a cure, especially in some patients with cancer, post-cardiac arrest, end-stage cardiac or pulmonary disease and major stroke.
Every year, the number of elderly people increases in both developed and developing countries, thanks to modern medicine's genius for pushing back the frontiers of death.
Fortunately modern medicine, for all its foibles, performs extraordinary feats every day and survival rates for all kinds of life-threatening health problems are better than ever.
The profit motive authored all this bounty: modern medicine, ease of travel, mind-blowing entertainment, and vast arrays of culinary choices and comforts customary in modern homes.
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The sector for Bioethics refers to the proper management, storage and use of human genetic data, which nowadays are frequently appropriated for modern medicine, but also for police investigations.
Since many of the most important advances have been in public health, in measures that reach as many people as possible, this subverts the goals of modern medicine.
"I think modern medicine, the modern technology of getting these guys back on the field I think is so much better than it has been in the past, " Reese said.
Dr. Byock states modern medicine has become so good at keeping the terminally ill alive that the inevitable process of dying has become much harder and is often prolonged unnecessarily.
The arrival of antibiotics in the 1940s revolutionised healthcare, but bacteria are fighting back and doctors and scientists are warning that ever-evolving resistant strains are putting modern medicine at risk.
Professor Linda Woodhead, professor of sociology of religion at Lancaster University and co-host of the Westminster Faith Debates, said modern medicine advances had seen a change in people's attitudes about death.
But Private Health is also an adaptation of the rapid advance of modern medicine, which throws off ever more and better ways to diagnose and treat disease and ultimately extend lives.
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" And, he asked rhetorically, "is the youth and pleasure offered by the devil very far from the eternal youth and virility that we crave from modern medicine and health science?
The assumption is there's no harm if modern medicine accommodates a busy obstetrician, a hectic family schedule or simply the mother's desire to get to the finish line and give birth.
In this case, fully a fifth of the U.S. population will be over age 65 inside of two decades, and whatever the other marvels of modern medicine, the mortality rate remains 100%.
By contrast, the approach in modern medicine, one that has been validated in hundreds of thousands of controlled experiments, is to rigorously identify, and observe, any factors that may unfairly bias a study.
Medical devices are something of an orphan sister to the glamour of drugs, but they include some of the genuine miracles of modern medicine: pacemakers, artificial joints, cardiac stents, scanners, and radiotherapy machines.
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