经典名方中海风藤的本草考证

通过查阅古代本草、医籍,结合近现代文献资料,笔者对海风藤药材名称、基原、产地及采收加工进行考证,以期为含海风藤药材的经典名方开发提供依据。经考证表明,海风藤入药最早以“南藤”为正名收载于唐代《本草拾遗》,并有“丁公藤”“石南藤”等异名;而“海风藤”一名应出现于明代;宋代之前海风藤药材来源可能为胡椒科胡椒属植物石南藤Piper wallichii的藤茎,宋代后使用品种则多为胡椒属风藤P. kadsura、山蒟P. hancei等植物,历版《中华人民共和国药典》收载海风藤药材基原仅风藤P. kadsura一种,结合基原考证、市场调查及野生资源分布情况,建议经典名方所用海风藤基原除风藤P. kadsura外,可增加山蒟P. hancei;由于气候变化及胡椒属植物喜热的习性特点,历代海风藤药材所著录的产地呈现由秦岭一带逐渐向南迁移至南方盛产胡椒属植物的地区,明代以来则推崇福建省泉州地区;采收期为农历七月至八月,采取地上部分,除去须根、细茎及叶,晒干;历代关于海风藤药材的炮制记载较少,多为生品入药,故建议经典名方所用海风藤药材未注明特殊炮制要求的采用生品即可。     

中药降香的本草考证

降香为我国传统中药材,历代本草对其记载较为混杂,至今基原仍存在较大争议。从名称、基原、产地、品质评价、采收加工及炮制方面进行考证可知,降香本名降真香,历代本草中多以降真香为正名记载,自明代《本草纲目》将降香作为降真香的简称,后至清末、民国时期逐渐以降香作为药材正名。从古至今降香基原历经变革,古代（1840年前）国产降香基原考证为黄檀属藤黄檀Dalbergia hancei Benth.、斜叶黄檀D. pinnata （Lour.） Prain、两粤黄檀D. benthamii Prain、滇黔黄檀D. yunnanensis Franch.等能够产生香材的藤本植物,进口降香基原则考证为黄檀属印度黄檀D. sissoo DC.、小花黄檀D. parviflora Roxb.等具有心材的木本植物;由于降真香（山油柑）Acronychia pedunculata （L.） Miq.植物名与药材名相同,1840—1948年部分著作误将山油柑作降香记载;《中华人民共和国药典》1977年版首次收录降香,规定其基原为降香檀D. odorifera T. Chen。据记载,古代国产和进口降香均无明确道地产区;1949年至今,唯一道地产区为海南省。历代本草记载,进口降香以颜色红且香气甜而不辣,或颜色紫而油润者入药为佳;中华人民共和国成立后,以降香檀心材替代进口降香入药,其品质以颜色紫红、质地坚硬油润者为佳。历代本草记载降香炮制方法包括将其刮下碾成细末和烧存性;近现代以加工成细粉或镑片为主。考证结果为今后成方制剂开发及临床应用提供重要参考。     

武陵地区民间146种“七”药考证与分析

为统一对民族民间“七”药的认识,解决“七”药命名中同物异名或同名异物的难题,经过多年对武陵地区“七”药的实地考察和核对有关标本,文献,考证出了该地区１４６种“七”药的名实,分析了“七”药的生态环境,基原,性味,功效及化学成分。并对“七”药的科学命名和应用开发提出了建议。     

Baseline CD4 T Cell Level Predicts Recovery Rate after Initiation of ART in HIV Infected Nigerians

The most characteristic immunologic disorder in HIV infection is the progressive loss of CD4 T lymphocytes, thus, it remains the most important and commonly used marker for monitoring of immune status of HIV-infected individuals. This study monitored CD4 T lymphocyte cell dynamics among HIV patients on ART, and consequently defined an optimal baseline level required for enhanced ARV treatment. Ninety-eight (M = 33; F = 65) out of 106 consenting HIV-infected ARV-naïve patients enrolled and monitored for 24 months were considered in the analysis. The patients were classified into four groups based on baseline CD4 T lymphocyte cell levels, and specific parameters were evaluated at interval. Median CD4 T lymphocyte increased from 114 (Range: 6–330) at baseline to highest 357 (Range: 15–1036) cells/μL at 18 months of therapy. Fifty (51.0%), 58(59.2%), 75(76.5%), 69(70.4%), 63(64.3%), and 69(70.4%) doubled their preceding CD4 levels during the 3^rd, 6^th, 9^th, 12^th, 18^th, and 24^th months of ART, respectively. Maximum 337, 302, 360, and 475 cells/μL of blood were attained by groups commenced on ART with baseline CD4 ≤ 50, 51–100, 101–200, and 201–350 cells/μL of blood, respectively. The results show that higher baseline CD4 T lymphocyte cell level correlates with enhanced restoration and plateau after commencement of ART.     

Analyzing the Patient's First Name in the Search for Identity

A first name captures indispensable information about its bearer, including aspects of the individual's inner world and approach to the environment, the aspirations and attributions of the name-givers for the individual, and the transferences and countertransferences involving the feelings that a first name evokes. A name is therefore a code waiting to be deciphered that, when explored, can reveal its significance to its bearer. A name can impart multiple meanings; the process of interpreting a name is akin to peeling an onion layered in infinite sequences. This article proposes that an examination of the analysand's first name can be a useful clinical tool in psychoanalytic therapy. An exploration into the origin and meaning of a patient's first name through detailed inquiry and association can serve as a rich source of insight regarding relationships between name and self-identity, and can quickly expand the analytic process.     

Determinants for a low health-related quality of life in asthmatics

People with asthma suffer from impaired health-related quality of life (HRQL), but the determinants of HRQL among asthmatics are not completely understood. The aim of this investigation was to study determinants of low HRQL in asthmatics and to study whether the determinants of HRQL differ between sexes and age groups. A cohort of three age groups in Sweden was investigated in 1990 using a questionnaire with focus on respiratory symptoms. To study quality of life, the generic instrument Gothenburg Quality of Life was used. The participants were also investigated with interviews, spirometry, and allergy testing. Asthma was diagnosed in 616 subjects. Fifty-eight per cent (n = 359) of the subjects were women; and 24% were smokers, 22% ex-smokers, and 54% were non-smokers. Women were more likely than men to report poor health-related quality of life. Respiratory symptoms severity was another independent determinant of a lower quality of life as well as airway responsiveness to irritants. Current and former smokers also reported lower quality of life. Finally, absenteeism from school and work was associated with lower quality of life. Factors such as sex, smoking habits, airway responsiveness to irritants, respiratory symptom severity, allergy, and absenteeism from school and work were associated with low HRQL in asthmatics.     

Recurrent neural networks with specialized word embeddings for health-domain named-entity recognition

BackgroundPrevious state-of-the-art systems on Drug Name Recognition (DNR) and Clinical Concept Extraction (CCE) have focused on a combination of text “feature engineering” and conventional machine learning algorithms such as conditional random fields and support vector machines. However, developing good features is inherently heavily time-consuming. Conversely, more modern machine learning approaches such as recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have proved capable of automatically learning effective features from either random assignments or automated word “embeddings”.Objectives(i) To create a highly accurate DNR and CCE system that avoids conventional, time-consuming feature engineering. (ii) To create richer, more specialized word embeddings by using health domain datasets such as MIMIC-III. (iii) To evaluate our systems over three contemporary datasets.MethodsTwo deep learning methods, namely the Bidirectional LSTM and the Bidirectional LSTM-CRF, are evaluated. A CRF model is set as the baseline to compare the deep learning systems to a traditional machine learning approach. The same features are used for all the models.ResultsWe have obtained the best results with the Bidirectional LSTM-CRF model, which has outperformed all previously proposed systems. The specialized embeddings have helped to cover unusual words in DrugBank and MedLine, but not in the i2b2/VA dataset.ConclusionsWe present a state-of-the-art system for DNR and CCE. Automated word embeddings has allowed us to avoid costly feature engineering and achieve higher accuracy. Nevertheless, the embeddings need to be retrained over datasets that are adequate for the domain, in order to adequately cover the domain-specific vocabulary.     

学术论文作者机构规范文档构建

以中国生物医学文献数据库为基础,面向基于学术论文开展机构检索、分析与评价相关知识服务需要,对学术论文作者机构名称规范目标与内容、体系结构与组织方式以及构建过程与实现策略进行研究、实践总结。     

临床常用头孢菌素类抗菌药物药品说明书评价

摘要：目的：将临床常用的头孢菌素类抗菌药物说明书进行对比分析,为药品说明书的完善和合理使用提供参考。方法：收集整理临床常用的14种头孢菌素类原研药和仿制药共计28份药品说明书,依据相关法律法规和参考资料为评价标准对其进行对比分析。结果：28份药品说明书中,主要在注意事项、药物相互作用、特殊人群用药、贮藏条件、修订日期等方面存在差异。此外,亦存在适应证范围不一、同一说明书对应多种规格、用法用量存在差异、不良反应存在差异、药物过量描述不一、药代动力学描述不一等问题。结论：头孢菌素类抗菌药物,尤其是仿制药药品说明书的内容完整度有待提高,说明书修订有待加强,建议不断完善头孢菌素类抗菌药物药品说明书,以保证患者用药安全。     

Public knowledge,perception, and experience with generic medications in Saudi Arabia

Objectives:To assess the public knowledge and perception about generic medications in Saudi Arabia, and their willingness to use generic medications.Methods:This cross-sectional, online-questionnaire-based study was conducted between May and July 2019, including participants who can read and complete an Arabic online survey. Chi-square test and contingency coefficient were used to investigate differences in different segments of participants and assess the association between knowledge and perception.Results:A total of 397 participants have completed the survey. One-half of them were female, the majority were of young age (<35 years), and 40% of them were buying their medications independently. Only 40.5% of participants had adequate knowledge and 60% of them had positive perception on generics. Participants with higher level of education were more likely to have adequate knowledge (p=0.002) and positive perception (p=0.006). The study found a moderate relationship between knowledge and perception about generics (standardized C=0.35, p<0.001). The country of origin for medications was a significant indicator of quality for two-thirds of participants, and one-half of them believed that local generics can compete with imported ones. About one-half of participants used generics and the majority of them were satisfied with their experience.Conclusion:There is a general lack of knowledge, while having a positive perception on generic medications among the general public in Saudi Arabia. Future studies should focus on strategies to improve it and assess its cost-savings consequences while maintaining quality of care.