Focuses on the health behaviors of Filipino Americans in Los Angeles, analyzing what these behaviors mean to the people who hold and perform them. First discussed are traditional folk medicine, then the current practices, which have resulted from immigration and the subsequent forming of new networks. (LHW)

Outlines the main features and areas of responsibility of an international, non-governmental body proposed by the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences to explore the moral and social issues raised by recent and impending developments in biology and medicine. (AL)

Discusses potential war time and medical uses for chemical compounds giving protection against radiation damage. Describes compounds known to protect, research aimed at discovering such compounds, and problems of toxicity. (EB)

Virtually all of the titles in this selected bibliography were published during the years 1964-70 inclusive. This is intended primarily for the public library whose holdings total about 100,000 volumes. (65 references) (Author/NH)

Discusses the claims for a brave new world of genetic manipulation" and concludes that if we could agree upon applying genetic (or any other effective) remedies to global problems we probably would need no rescourse to them. Suggests that effective methods of preventing genetic disease are prevention of mutations and detection and…

The results of this survey indicate that more emphasis should be placed on the importance of taking all of the prescribed antibiotic. (Author)

To provide the health scientist with information when and where it is needed is an age-old problem. The impediments to its solution are intellectual, not technical or technological. (Author/SK)

Using the Sinclair Lewis novel "Arrowsmith," the author illustrates the potential for literature to enrich continuing medical education through the provision of knowledge about human nature and social structures. (SK)

Provides definitions for 43 new French terms related to health and medicine. (AM)

Outlines methods for manipulating multiple gas data so as to gain the greatest amount of insight into the properties of ventilation-perfusion distributions. Refers to data corresponding to normal and abnormal lungs. Uses a two-dimensional framework with the respiratory gases of oxygen and carbon dioxide. (CS)

Provides physicians who are responsible for the healthcare of teams with a decision process for determining when to return an injured or ill athlete to practice or competition, focusing on: establishing a return-to-play process, evaluating injured or ill athletes, treating injured or ill athletes, rehabilitating injured or ill athletes, and…

Tibial stress injuries, commonly called shin splints, often result when bone remodeling processes adopt inadequately to repetitive stress. Physicians who are caring for athletic patients must have a thorough understanding of this continuum of injuries, including medial tibial stress syndrome and tibial stress fractures, because there are…

Reviews developments in telemedicine and a number of related areas (telecommunications, virtual presence, informatics, artificial intelligence, robotics, materials science, and perceptual psychology). Provides learning activities for technology education. (SK)