Medical books from the cradle delight in a digital age

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Pre-1501 medical books show how fluid and all-encompassing the concept of medicine was in earlier stages of life. Before the invention of printing, scribes produced books by copying them by hand onto animal-skin parchment, or vellum where multiple copies of short texts occasionally were printed using laboriously carved woodblocks.

Evaluation, Books, College of Physicians of Philadelphia (Book), The Mirror of Nature (Collection), Medical Botany (Book)

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Interest surging in electroconvulsive and other brain stimulation therapies

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There is increased interest among researchers for improving techniques of electroconculsive and deep brain stimulation therapies for treatment of patients with severe depression.

Science & research, Care and treatment, Research, Usage, Depression, Mental, Depression (Mood disorder), Brain stimulation

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New tactics help curb adolescent substance abuse and dependence

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The urgent need to identify and tackle drug abuse among adolescent groups rather than in middle age is examined.

Specialty outpatient clinics, not elsewhere classified, Outpatient Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers, Alcohol & Drug Abuse Programs, Youth, Health aspects, Teenagers, Substance abuse, Substance abuse treatment, Substance abusers

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