Genomic medicine and the future of health care

Genomic technologies and computational advances are leading to an information revolution in biology and medicine. Simulations of molecular processes in cells and predictions of drug effects in humans will advance pharmaceutical research and speed up clinical trials. Computational prognostics and diagnostics that combine with genotyping and molecular profiling may soon cause fundamental changes in the practice of health care.     

医学图书馆应坚决清除非法医药卫生类出版物

 

介绍了非法医药卫生类书刊的出版方式和国家公布取缔的27种非法医药卫生类期刊；阐述了非法医药卫生类期刊的危害和坚决取缔非法医药卫生类出版物，严防其流入医学图书馆。

     

Preventive medicine: legislation calls for health education

It appears that therapeutic medicine, important as it is, may have reached a point of diminishing returns. The 12 to 15 percent increases that we are adding to our hundred billion dollar health care bill each year-even the portion that is not caused by inflation-apparently have only a marginal utility.     

湖南留日作家的日本文学影响

湖南留日作家虽有不同的思想历程和生活体验,但其留学经历使他们自觉或不自觉地受到日本文学的影响。有的从日本文学中吸取创作灵感,有的受到日本近代文学思潮或某种文体的影响,有的留学前、后的创作风格发生变化,而受异域文学影响最大的湖南留日作家是田汉。当然,他们在接受日本文学影响的同时,母体文化在其精神结构中起着作用,他们的创作又是对日本文学的超越。     

循证医学实践——医学图书馆面临的机遇和挑战

对循证医学

的起源与发展、定义、核心思想，以及循证医学实践及其基本步骤、循证医学实践与文献检索的关系进行了综述。在此基础上，重

点阐述循证医学实践给医学图书馆带来的重大发展机遇和医学图书馆在循证医学环境下所面临的巨大挑战，并就如何抓住机遇、迎

接挑战提出了具体建议。

     

茉莉花茶保健功效及相关保健产品研究现状

[目的]为茉莉花茶保健方面研究提供依据。[方法]对茉莉花茶营养与保健成分研究现状进行简要分析,并针对茉莉花茶对不同人群的保健功效以及相关茉莉花茶保健产品开发等相关茉莉花茶保健研究现状进行综述。[结果]得出相应结论,即针对不同人群的茉莉花茶保健研究已有一定进展,但仍在许多茉莉花茶保健产品的开发及其所对应的具体保健功效研究上有待进一步地完善。[结论]茉莉花茶保健研究仍具有一定的研究方向及发展前景。     

Rationing health care: the choice before us

Rapid technological advances and upward pressure on wages of hospital personnel are leading to a steady increase in health care spending that is absorbing an ever-larger fraction of gross national product. Eliminating inefficiencies in the system can provide brief fiscal relief, but rationing of beneficial services, even to the well-insured, offers the only prospect for sustained reduction in the growth of health care spending. The United States, which has negligible direct experience with rationing, can learn about choices it will face from the experience of Great Britain where health care has been rationed explicitly for many years.     

区域医疗卫生信息化建设内容

介绍了区域医疗卫生信息化的内涵,探讨了区域医疗卫生信息化建设的内容,并简要分析了信息化过程中的系统安全和标准化问题。     

Rural health care in Mexico?

A very large percentage of Mexico's population living in rural areas lacks resources for health care. Any new effort to provide such care must emphasize the health of the infant population because of the high percentage of infants in the country. Plans made at the national level have not been correlated with the conditions that exist in rural areas. For example, the majority of university programs are oriented toward urban medical practice, and the construction of more schools of medicine to solve the problem of doctors in rural areas is based on a mistaken premise. This problem has not been solved even in developed countries such as the United States where, as in Mexico, graduates in medicine migrate to the cities where optimal conditions are met for practicing the type of medicine for which they have been trained. Furthermore, it is both expensive and illogical to maintain urban doctors in rural areas where they cannot practice their profession for lack of resources; to do so is to deny the purpose of their education (27). Conventional schools of medicine, for reasons of investment and of structure, should teach only very selected groups of students who, on finishing their training, are fully capacitated to practice specialized medicine. A different system is required if we are to provide adequate health care in the rural communities. A system such as that described herein, adapted to the real need of rural communities, would avoid the necessity to create dysfunctional bureaucracies and would not destroy those institutions which have proved useful in the past. This study should be considered as one of the many pilot programs that should be initiated in order to determine the type of program that would best solve the problem of health care in rural Mexico. Other programs already being considered at the National Autonomous University of Mexico include the A36 plan of the Faculty of Medicine, now in operation; the work of C. Biro carried out in Netzahualcoyotl City (both focused on providing medical care to the urban poor); and the Open University program. Unless an efficient program designed to meet the needs of rural communities is quickly put into operation, Mexico will, in the near future, be facing the same problems now confronting Southeast Asia.