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The “Herbert Hultgren Papers” comprise original notes, notebooks, travel logs, correspondence, article drafts, and experiment, test, and patient observation data from Hultgren's multi-decade research and study of high altitude medicine and physiology. [8] They also contain a complete set of his extensive U.S. medical journal article reprints.
A study by the Denali Medical Research Project concluded: "In established cases of acute mountain sickness, treatment with acetazolamide relieves symptoms, improves arterial oxygenation, and prevents further impairment of pulmonary gas exchange." [38] The folk remedy for altitude sickness in Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia is a tea made from the coca ...
The number of students entering family medicine residency training has fallen from a high of 3,293 in 1998 to 1,172 in 2008, according to National Residency Matching Program data. Fifty-five family medicine residency programs have closed since 2000, while only 28 programs have opened. [30]
The color fresco Care of The Sick by Domenico di Bartolo, 1441–1442, depicting the Santa Maria della Scala hospital in Siena, Italy. Medicine is the science and practice of caring for patients, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health.
Founded in February 1969 as the American Board of Family Practice (ABFP), the group was the 20th medical specialty to be recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties and was formed out of a need to encourage medical school graduates to enter general practice. It adopted its current name in 2005.
Star Valley Health is the primary provider of healthcare in the area. [citation needed] The hospital is a Level 4 Trauma Center.Star Valley Health has transfer agreements with Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City, Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello, Idaho, and Logan Regional Hospital in Logan, Utah.