Download or read book Vaccine Therapy written by Sir Almroth Edward WRIGHT and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vaccine Therapy written by Almroth Wright and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vaccine Therapy Its Administration Value and Limitations written by Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vaccine Therapy Its Administration Value and Limitations A Discussion Opened by Sir Almroth E Wright Etc John Nachbar Editor written by Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vaccines for the 21st Century written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-02-21 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vaccines have made it possible to eradicate the scourge of smallpox, promise the same for polio, and have profoundly reduced the threat posed by other diseases such as whooping cough, measles, and meningitis. What is next? There are many pathogens, autoimmune diseases, and cancers that may be promising targets for vaccine research and development. This volume provides an analytic framework and quantitative model for evaluating disease conditions that can be applied by those setting priorities for vaccine development over the coming decades. The committee describes an approach for comparing potential new vaccines based on their impact on morbidity and mortality and on the costs of both health care and vaccine development. The book examines: Lessons to be learned from the polio experience. Scientific advances that set the stage for new vaccines. Factors that affect how vaccines are used in the population. Value judgments and ethical questions raised by comparison of health needs and benefits. The committee provides a way to compare different forms of illness and set vaccine priorities without assigning a monetary value to lives. Their recommendations will be important to anyone involved in science policy and public health planning: policymakers, regulators, health care providers, vaccine manufacturers, and researchers.

Download or read book Immunization Safety Review written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-07-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By two years of age, healthy infants in the United States can receive up to 20 vaccinations to protect against 11 diseases. Although most people know that vaccines effectively protect against serious infectious diseases, approximately one-quarter of parents in a recent survey believe that infants get more vaccines than are good for them, and that too many immunizations could overwhelm an infant's immune system. The Immunization Safety Review Committee reviewed the evidence regarding the hypothesis that multiple immunizations increase the risk for immune dysfunction. Specifically, the committee looked at evidence of potential biological mechanisms and at epidemiological evidence for or against causality related to risk for infections, the autoimmune disease type 1 diabetes, and allergic disorders.

Download or read book Quantification and the Quest for Medical Certainty written by J. Rosser Mathews and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception in World War II, the clinical trial has evolved into a standard procedure in determining therapeutic efficacy in many Western industrial democracies. Its features include a "control" group of patients that do not receive the experimental treatment, the random allocation of patients to either the experimental or control group, and the use of blind assessment so that the researchers do not know which patients are in either group. Even though it has been only within the past generation that the clinical trial has moved to the forefront of medical research, comparative statistics in a therapeutic context has a much longer history. From that history J. Rosser Matthews chooses to discuss three crucial debates: that among clinicians before the Parisian Academy of Medicine in 1837, the debate in the German physiological literature during the 1850s, and, in the early twentieth century, the debate over the bacteriologist's diagnostic technique involving the "opsonic index." Matthews demonstrates that despite the very real differences separating clinician, physiologist, and bacteriologist, they all shared an antipathy toward the methods of the statistician. Since they viewed medical judgment as a form of "tacit knowledge," they downplayed the concerns of the medical statistician who was attempting to make medical inference into something explicit and quantitative. Only when "medical decision-making" moved from the cloistered confines of professional medical expertise into the arena of open political debate could the medical statistician (and the clinical trial) gain the upper hand.

Download or read book Control and the Therapeutic Trial written by Martin Edwards and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listen to podcast with the author How do doctors decide whether their drugs, or other treatments, actually work? In practice this can be fiendishly difficult. Nowadays the gold standard is the randomised controlled trial (RCT). But the RCT is a recent invention, and the story of how it came to dominate therapeutic evaluation from the latter half of the twentieth century involves acrimony, confrontation, and manipulation of the powerful rhetoric of ‘control’. Control and the Therapeutic Trial examines the development of the RCT from the eclectic collection of methodologies available to practitioners in the early-twentieth century. In particular, it explores the British Medical Research Council’s (MRC) exploitation of the term ‘controlled’ to help establish its own ‘controlled trials’ as the gold standard for therapeutic evaluation, and, ultimately, the MRC itself as the proper authority to adjudicate on therapeutic efficacy. This rhetorical power still clings, and is exploited today. Control and the Therapeutic Trial will be of interest not only to historians of twentieth-century medicine and practising clinicians who take therapeutic decisions, but to anyone who seeks a broader insight into the forces that shaped, and control, the modern controlled trial.

Download or read book Evaluating and Standardizing Therapeutic Agents 1890 1950 written by C. Gradmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the testing of therapeutic sera, the quantified evaluation of a pharmaceutical's efficacy became a key feature of medicine in the twentieth century. The case studies in this volume offer comparisons across Europe, from the diphtheria antitoxin in the late 1800s to the introduction of the Salk polio vaccine in the 1950s.

Download or read book Red Book written by Larry K. Pickering and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developed by the AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) Committee on Infectious Diseases in conjunction with the CDC (Centers for disease control), the FDA (Food and drug administration), and other leading institutions with contributions from hundreds of physicians nationwide, the newly revised and updated 2012 Red Book continues the tradition of excellence with the latest findings and clinical recommendations on the manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of more than 200 childhood conditions. [Ed.].

Download or read book Bulletin of the Hygienic Laboratory written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Canada Lancet and Practitioner written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chronic Colitis Its Causation Diagnosis and Treatment written by George Herschell and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Surgery Gynecology Obstetrics written by Franklin Henry Martin and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Biometrika written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journal of statistics emphasizing the statistical study of biological problems. Papers contain original theoretical contributions of direct or potential value in applications.

Download or read book Edinburgh Medical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.