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Review Article

60-65
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2009 H1N1 influenza: a pandemic

The first cases of 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infection were documented in March 2009 and have subsequently caused a worldwide outbreak. The World Health Organization declared the first phase 6 global influenza pandemic of the century on June 11, 2009. As of November 2009, mo...

Health Policy

66-71
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Achieving a viable equilibrium: exploring the connections between human health and the world we inhabit

In recent decades, the Western medical establishment has become more cognizant of the connection between our environment and our health, a relationship Eastern medicine has respected for centuries. Throughout history, physicians, scientists, and scholars have postulated that the health o...

Brief Reports

72-76
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Commentary on the globalization of osteopathic medicine

Osteopathic medicine has taken a different direction internationally than it has in just the United States. A. T. Still's initial practice of osteopathy was predominantly manually based, because he believed the use of medications by the orthodox medical profession at that time was often ...

Case Reports

77-80
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Acute idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura in an elderly adult: a case study

The paper is a case study of an 81-year-old female with an acute onset of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP). This diagnosis is rare in adults, and this article discusses the patient's clinical presentation and a review of ITP. ...