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MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

Blood

1973

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Unique Characteristics And Implications Of Individual Health Profiles, George Z. Williams Jan 1973

Unique Characteristics And Implications Of Individual Health Profiles, George Z. Williams

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

During the era of the prescientific medicine, people were divided into two categories: those who were sick and those who were not sick. Physicians found it necessary to establish criteria to differentiate the ill and separate them according to symptoms and signs characteristic of classifiable diseases. Because of preoccupation with disease, the concept of the "normal" versus the pathological, as two opposite and definable conditions, was inevitable in the absence of scientific knowledge of human chemistry and physiology. This concept has carried over into the present era of scientific medicine.


Haa (Hb Ag) Evaluation-State Of The Art, Ali A. Hossaini, Mario R. Escobar Jan 1973

Haa (Hb Ag) Evaluation-State Of The Art, Ali A. Hossaini, Mario R. Escobar

MCV/Q, Medical College of Virginia Quarterly

In conclusion, this study supports the claim that the RIA is the most sensitive of all assay methods for detection of HB Ag in use today. Because of the inability to verify the presence of HB Ag in those sera positive by RIA alone, however, this claim must be taken only at face value. Further studies are needed to confirm the specificity of these positive reactions.