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C. C. Kartha ¹

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1 Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes Biology, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram 695 014, IN

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Given the flood of medical literature in recent times, physicians face the continuous challenge of keeping up with the advances in general medicine.

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C. C. Kartha

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<i>Indian Journal of History of Science</i>. Thematic Issue:Knowledge Production in Pre-Colonial India - Methodological Aspects.

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C. C. Kartha ¹

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1 Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes Biology, Rajiv Gandhi Center for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram 695 014, IN

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Creation of knowledge is a cumulative process in which new ideas are assembled over time and across disciplines. Methods for knowledge development have been a subject of serious and continuous debate all through history.

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C. C. Kartha ¹

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1 Division of Cardiovascular Diseases and Diabetes Biology, Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram 695 014, IN

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This volume of Annual Review of Medicine as in the previous years contains enlightening updates on several medical problems of current interest. There are 33 reviews in this expertly composed compendium.

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C. C. Kartha ¹

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1 Society for Continuing Medical Education and Research, Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences, Thiruvananthapuram 695 029, IN

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Annual Review of Medicine is a must read for those physicians who are inclined to keep track of advancing frontiers in medicine and thus be aware of changing paradigms in diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. The book offers lucidly composed, authoritative, critical and comprehensive, yet concise reviews on selected topics in a variety of specialities. The latest volume has 34 articles; 11 of them are on themes related to cancer and 9 deal with cardiovascular diseases.

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C. C. Kartha ¹

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1 Society for Continuing Medical Education and Research, Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences, Thiruvananthapuram 695 029, IN

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The recent volume of Annual Review of Medicine, as in previous years contains articles which broadly survey progress in several fields of the speciality and provides a succinct overview of current research on the selected topics. Among the 35 reviews, 12 discuss novel diagnostic and management strategies for various types of cancers. Four articles deal with exciting advances in gene therapy; five articles are on therapy for infectious diseases. Cardiovascular diseases are the theme of the first five.

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A. Anandkumar ¹, C. C. Kartha ²

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1 Department of Neurology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Cochin 682 041, IN
2 Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences, Thiruvananthapuram 695 029, IN

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World Health Organization defines health as ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’. Mental and physical well-being are linked to ‘spiritual health’, ‘emotional health’ and ‘financial health’ because of shared association with lower stress levels. The predominant determinants of health are genetics, social, economic and physical environment, nutrition, lifestyle and access to health services. Several determinants of health in the physical environment are known and these include pollutants in the air, water, soil, and food, natural and technological disasters, climate change and occupational hazards. Another factor which influences living organisms is the external milieu which could be the surrounding atmosphere, water or vacuum. Studies on function and dysfunction of humans have centred mostly on the physical body and to a lesser extent on the environment. We propose that the three-dimensional space around individuals could also be a target for intervention to maintain health.

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C. C. Kartha ¹

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1 Department of Neurology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi 682 041, IN

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