I have been reading a lot and I do mean A LOT of medical journal and public health studies recently to keep up-to-date about the industry. HOWEVER, I didn't find one single article that at least mention about ASIAN in their studies. I know we are a minority group in the US but we pay just as much taxes as anyone if not more. We wanna get a sense of whether certain diseases/drugs affect our populations too not just WHITE, BLACK, or HISPANIC. These studies are partially funded by the government so we should be part of it too. What do ya'll think??
lol life sucks. live with it or do something about it. one step at a time, thats the only way it goes. shit i expected something like this though, once a race gets equal rights then everyone wants more of it, i don't blame that cause i want it too, but shit ain't gonna happen. but focusing on the medical journal issue, i guess asians just gotta step up? not too sure about that as i don't have the experience of reading them or any knowledge of that field.
thats becaus asians live forever and don't get sick lol they just write about drugs and asians these days
i dunno but back in stanford .. there are a lot more azn studies .. anyway, azn has the highest hep b risk than the other group ... well, let's get there. point is that whenever you visit your physician and talk about certain drugs and diseases .. s/he will like throw out stats from studies of other races and use that as a relative scale on your diagnosis and possibly prognosis.
well.... most asians have their own medicines which has proven to be quite healthy and western medicine isn't always the best choice for us..... although the general meds do help for everyday pains.....
oriental med is good and no side effect but it's too slow in resolving the ailment. that's not gonna work in a world where time is an essence. furthermore, there's no measurement as to whether a herbalist/oriental med doc is ethical and honestly knows what s/he is doing espeically in the us.
maybe you should vsit Po Chi Lum 寶芝林. Yeah western medicine is better but more superbugs are going to be in the future.
there is really no quick fix .. the us is known for the pill popping country for everything ... shortcut always lead to repercussion especially on human body .. there are still so many things scientists and engineers are trying to uncover and understand about the human body. as for chinese med, again; really nothing to prove it beside the word of mouth and probably litergy from the old time that only chinese themselves can understand..
Most of the Asian specific studies in medicine come out the far east (Japan, Korea, China) and there is a huge repository of medical related knowlegde. Example: look up Brugada Syndrome. In the US, Asian specific medical research with focus on the variable of being in the US (as opposed to the far east) is few, but does exist. Asians also participate in mixed studies.
Actually, if you're really interested in Asian related medical literature, go to pubmed and look for research conduced by university hospitals and researchers in Asia; 99.9% of their study population is Asian.
PubMed, Jstor, and the bulk of those internet repositories of "public" knowledge have become a little cottage industry unto themselves. These sites often do more to hide information than be the public resource that they claim. Unless you have an institutional log on name, it is almost always impossible to get full and unimpeded access. unless you're willing to pay through the teeth for it. Far from being a true public library for the masses (ie one in which anyone can literally walk in off the street, pick up a book and read) these archives have become an informational trove only for those select few who are academically connected.
I don't think their primary intention is to be prohibitive in terms of public access. It is more reimbursement oriented on one hand, and directed to the academic medical community on the other hand. For most articles, one would need some grounding in medical statistics as well as some specialized or in depth medical knowledge in order to appropriately appreciate the implications and nuances the studies are intending to demonstrate. Also, patients are already googling random studies and facts on the internet from god knows what sources and arguing with their physicians based on these questionable "studies and facts." Imagine what will happen if they start bringing the studies physicians use without really understanding what it says to coerce physicians into prescribing something which could be potentially harmful to them. If one's really interested about a particular medical question/topic, he is probably best off by seeing his physician and inquiring.
