DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7314/APJCP.2012.13.4.1193 Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Methods among Female Health Care Workers in Sri Lanka RESEARCH COMMUNICATION Knowledge and Practices on Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Methods among Female Health Care Workers: A Sri Lankan Experience RIW Nilaweera*‚ S Perera‚ N Paranagama‚ AS Anushyanthan Abstract Breast and cervical cancer are the most common causes of cancer mortality among women worldwide‚ but they are largely preventable. There are
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Alternative medicine‚ also known as a holistic approach‚ has been around since ancient times. It has a longer history of healing than many of the traditional medicines commonly prescribed and available today. Being dominated by pharmaceutical creations in the last century‚ alternative medicine is making a fast comeback these days. People are becoming increasingly aware of medical practices from different cultures. Many are frustrated with the damage that conventional medicine can do‚ its severe side
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The use of Traditional Medicine can save lives: Easy and Affordable Specific Purpose: To inform my audiences about the two major ways to use Traditional Medicine at home. Central Idea: The two major ways to use Traditional Medicine at home are using alternatives medicines‚ and basic knowledge. Introduction 1) By a show of hands‚ how many of you like medicine? A) Did you know that according to article of 2011 talks about the 25 percent of the world’s medicines contain extracts from leaves
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between conventional veterinary medicine and holistic veterinary medicine. Conventional medicine has been around for many years whereas holistic medicine is recently becoming a big thing that pet owners are now turning to. Although the two are working towards the same goal‚ to better an animal’s life‚ the two are very different. There is no real research on when exactly conventional veterinarian medicine started. We do know who the father of veterinary medicine is‚ this would be Dr. Claude Bourgelat
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the field of medicine. The knowledge of the indigenous communities on medicine is popularly known by the nomenclature “Traditional Medicine”. The focus of inquiry in this paper is the extent to which the existing legal regime especially the intellectual property paradigm attempts to protect and preserve the interest of the indigenous peoples over their knowledge. The paper analyses whether indigenous medicine fits itself into the existing definition given by WHO on traditional medicine and proceeds
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and 1992‚ infectious diseases nearly halved. These statistics clearly show that modern medicine has advanced so much alongside with the new treatments and marvelous surgery (Porter‚ 1997). Medicine has become one of the most important aspect of humans‚ which no other species acquire. The root of medicine may be found in the philosophical and religious traditions it have grown out of. “Traditional medicine is the sum total of the knowledge‚ skills‚ and practices based on the theories‚ beliefs
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led to the abatement of the Aboriginal traditional medicines.(p88). Losing their freedom to practice traditional therapeutics‚ the Aboriginal people eventually had to adapt to the culturally inappropriate ways of western medicines. The purpose of this paper is to examine the advantages of Aboriginal healing methods for the Aboriginal people‚ as well as to explain why these traditional methods continued to persist long after western style medicines were introduced. Advantages of Aboriginal Healing
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Plantain Medicine that Treats Everything Throughout years‚ I was taught to believe that the best medicine is not a pill‚ but a folk medicine. The most common folk medicine in my culture was plantain. This herb meant to help in a variety of sicknesses. For instance‚ when I got food poison followed by high fever‚ vomiting‚ and diarrhea‚ my mother prepared a tincture based on plantain‚ vinegar and salt. I had to drink 15 drops of this mixture every hour and after 5 hours the reaction
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There have been many advances and discoveries in medicine through the past years‚ but I have two that I believe made a huge difference during this century we are in today. One of them being anesthetic’s and pain medicine‚ in the old ages thinking stuff such as only removing a boil was unable to do due to pain medicine or anesthetic’s is quiet frightening because in the 21st century a lot of surgery procedures are performed from the minor procedures to the biggest of all such as open heart surgeries
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Throughout the history of medicine‚ many innovations have occurred that impacted the world and vastly transformed the future of medicine. In my opinion‚ the four most important innovations in medicine are Vesalius’s book and view on anatomy‚ inoculation and vaccination‚ the microscope‚ and MRIs and CAT scans. The 16th century contained some of the greatest innovations of all time; one in particular was Vesalius’s anatomy book‚ De humani corporis fabrica. Vesalius’s book was the first medical book
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