The Fiftieth Annual Medical Symposium of the Medical Society of Papua New Guinea held in Goroka from 31 August to 3 September 2014 celebrated the success of the Medical Society and the Papua New Guinea Medical Journal. This paper was presented as an address at the meeting and praised the work of medical doctors, allied health staff, medical scientists and research staff engaged in the field and laboratory for their many achievements over these 50 years. It describes the major Papua New Guinean medical icons of kuru, pigbel and swollen belly syndrome and draws out lessons learned from them and the research that elucidated them. Other medical icons that are briefly described include neonatal tetanus, Burkitt lymphoma, standard treatment books, respiratory bacteriology, insecticide-treated bednets, pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine, a blood-stage malaria vaccine, snakebite, conservative management of ruptured spleen, radial paralysis in leprosy, the response to BCG and the BCG leprosy trial, bottle-feeding legislation, betelnut chewing and oral cancer, hyperreactive malarious splenomegaly, genetic polymorphisms associated with malaria, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, donovanosis, endemic goitre and endemic cretinism, lymphatic filariasis, adult asthma and sago haemolytic disease. Attention is also drawn to likely future challenges – from infectious diseases and their unpredictability, outbreaks of disease on a global scale, climate change, the difficulty of establishing effective community engagement in the pursuit of greater equity in health and well-being, and the need to ensure that the mineral wealth of the nation is used for everybody’s benefit. A Health Think-Tank is proposed as a means of developing innovative and efficient ways of improving the health of all Papua New Guineans.
Medicine,

This paper introduced the situation of investment for studies on the clinical medicine in the central and provincial hospital during 1996-1997 and their application. There were 1357 themes in 96 hospitals of which 76 themes of traditional medicine. There were much medical advancement applied in the diagnosis and treatment. However, there were remainly many limitations in the studies on the clinical medicine such as extent of technical application, and development of high techniques to contribute to the people protection and care better.
Clinical Medicine ; Medicine, Traditional

The traditional medicine has been developing and become an official science. The objectives of traditional medicine are to continue consolidation, and improvement of the organizational network and collaborative collaboration between the health sector and traditional medicine, strengthen investment for modernization of traditional medicine such as training, recovery of the domestic medicinal plant garden in the local level and enhancement of the international cooperation.
Medicine ; Medicine, Traditional

A study aimed to strengthen the quality of medication that remains the nature of traditional medicine. New techniques applied in the researches. The inherit of traditional experiences and making up the preparation forms of traditional medications was a trend of studying new drugs as well as application of new researches.
Medicine ; Medicine, Traditional

The traditional medicine has been developing together with the development of the country. The modern medicine came into Vietnam in XVII century. On the scientific basis, inherite of the traditional medicine, the combination of the traditional medicine and the modern medicine aims at building the Viet nam’s health sector which is suitable with the country’s condition and the people needs. During its own development, the health sector has obtained some major achivement including enhancement of the capacity of the people health protection and care, strengthen of the medical equipment and collection of the valuable experiences of building the country health sector by the combining the traditional and modern medicine
Medicine ; Medicine, Traditional

Kampo medicine is more expected as the complementaly medicine than ever from the nation. It is important to make the evidence of the Kampo medicine for showing the efficacy and safety to the nation properly.
Medicine, Kampo ; Medicine ; Safety

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Nuclear Medicine ; Precision Medicine

Humans ; Integrative Medicine ; Medicine ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional

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Internal Medicine*

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Precision Medicine*