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En la obra podemos visualizar la caracterización de las diversas modalidades históricas que dieron origen a la bacteriología en Colombia: la llegada de médicos e investigadores en la época de la Colonia que sembraron la semilla de los servicios en el campo de la salud. La creación de escuelas y facultades de medicina, hospitales gubernamentales y laboratorios privados donde la Bacteriología se imagina, crea, forma y crece en el pensamiento,...
24) Porneiopathology A Popular Treatise on Venereal and Other Diseases of the Male and Female Genital
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A popular treaties on venereal and other diseases of the male and female genital system, with remarks on impotence, orgasm, sterility, piles, and gravel and prescriptions for their treatment.
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This report details the key achievements of the Regional Malaria and Other Communicable Disease Threats Trust Fund from its creation in 2013 to the first half of 2018. It provides detailed analysis of the results by outcome, profiles specific projects that serve as exemplars of the fund's impact, and offers insights into how similar trust funds can be managed for success in future.
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This book explains, in non-technical terms, the relationship between man and the many bacteria, viruses and other micro-organisms with whom he lives in the most intimate manner throughout his existence. It is explained that for the most part, this coexistence is beneficial, but that through evolution and natural selection, some bacteria, viruses and other micro-organisms may become aggressive to the host in which they live and that others may become...
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With more than 300,000 cases diagnosed each year, Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne illness in the United States. However, doctors are deeply divided on how to diagnose and treat it, leading to the controversy known as the "Lyme Wars." Firmly entrenched camps have emerged, causing physicians, patient communities, and insurance companies to be pitted against one another in a struggle to define Lyme disease and its clinical challenges. Health-care...
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This Booklet has been written and compiled for the use of any student or layman who seeks concise and clear information on the history of Influenza. Brief and salient facts are set forth relating to "Flu" epidemics and pandemics: other collateral features have also been discussed, connected with or bearing upon this subject. EXPLANATION OF MEDICAL WORDS: Infection. The entrance into the system or body of living disease-producing germs, such as by...
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Since the fifties of the 20th century, intensive breeding in livestock has increased sharply. The increase in meat products and dairy production could only be acheived with artificial insemination of mammals and the animals unilaterally fattening with soy flour, corn and fish meal. The unbridled breeding of animals, through artificial insemination of cattle and with incubators for poultry, has a devastating effect on our health, nature and the climate....
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Step back in time to the late 19th century as the powerful United Fruit Company takes center stage in the bustling city of Bocas del Toro. Witness their rise to dominance and the establishment of Hospital Point, a vital medical center ensuring the well-being of the labor force. This captivating tale delves into the intertwined history of commerce and healthcare in a bygone era.Clyde S. Stephens, an American from Florida, worked 32 years for the United...
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Toxoplasmosis ocular: ¡No coma cuento, ni carne cruda! es un libro que llena un vacío en el proceso de transferencia social del conocimiento para el tema de la toxoplasmosis, una de las infecciones de mayor prevalencia en la población mundial y con consecuencias en la salud humana que parecen ser, cada vez más, de mayor trascendencia de la que conocíamos hasta ahora, cuando se evalúa su relación con la salud mental. El grupo de Neuroinmunooftalmología...
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Al reflexionar sobre la arquitectura de las estrategias de prevención, se evidencia un vínculo entre las formas atípicas de organización en el trabajo con la salud y seguridad. De alguna forma, dicho fenómeno se manifiesta mediante la informalidad laboral como forma de trabajo predominante en Colombia y en el mundo, del cual surgen diversos interrogantes, entre estos, los relacionados con el problema de la estimación y la gestión de los riesgos...
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A Gut Reaction is an entertaining as well as informative true story about the author's battle to save her son's life - or at least his large intestine - from a very severe case of Crohn's disease. With persistence, humour, much searching of the Internet and the help of two unusual doctors, one in Canada and the other in Australia, she and her son, who was in his early twenties, finally find a regime of fecal infusions that replaces the bacteria that...
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We are living through an upheaval of such historic proportions that it's hard to know if we were giving birth to a new and wonderful world or actually destroying all that we have known as good, true, and beautiful. But what's behind it all? Is the catastrophic fallout of the global COVID-19 pandemic response simply the result of well-intentioned overcorrection to a mysterious and fearsome disease we believed would mercilessly claim the lives of millions?...
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If you think you know how vaccination began - think again - because its dawn is clouded in myth and misrepresentation. Not a 'discovery or an 'invention', vaccination was a development of what had gone before. Man's battle against infectious disease had started in the Far East long ago with strange but effective practices to prevent smallpox. The true process of vaccination was first conceived and performed during 1774 by a yeoman farmer named Benjamin...
38) COVID-19 Don't Be an Easy Target: Tips and Strategies to Reduce Your Chances of Getting Infected
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This book is for the person who wants to minimise their chances of catching Covid-19.
This book offers tips on how an individual can protect themselves from the coronavirus.
During pandemics, Governments advise the population what to do on a national level.
This book shows you what you can do on an individual level.
You will get tips and ideas on what measures to take in the home shopping or at work. It makes you aware of how to use wind direction...
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It underlines the deep cultural, sociological and historical effects of those diseases. The book provides a fascinating overview of the top ten deadliest diseases in human history. Written with elegance and wit, it offers a wonderfully crafted list of the top ten diseases of all time. The digital versions (PDF and EPUB) of this book are accessible, in accordance with Benetech's Certified Global Accessible (CGA) standards, to which the PUO-UOP have...
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After a disappointing 2019, growth prospects in developing Asia have worsened under the impact of the current health crisis. Signs of incipient recovery near the turn of this year were quickly overthrown as COVID-19 broke out in January 2020 in the region's largest economy and subsequently expanded into a global pandemic. Disruption to regional and global supply chains, trade, and tourism, and the continued spread of the outbreak, leave the region...
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