Severity: Warning
Message: file_get_contents(https://...@pubfacts.com&api_key=b8daa3ad693db53b1410957c26c9a51b4908&a=1): Failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests
Filename: helpers/my_audit_helper.php
Line Number: 176
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File: /var/www/html/application/helpers/my_audit_helper.php
Line: 176
Function: file_get_contents
File: /var/www/html/application/helpers/my_audit_helper.php
Line: 250
Function: simplexml_load_file_from_url
File: /var/www/html/application/helpers/my_audit_helper.php
Line: 1034
Function: getPubMedXML
File: /var/www/html/application/helpers/my_audit_helper.php
Line: 3152
Function: GetPubMedArticleOutput_2016
File: /var/www/html/application/controllers/Detail.php
Line: 575
Function: pubMedSearch_Global
File: /var/www/html/application/controllers/Detail.php
Line: 489
Function: pubMedGetRelatedKeyword
File: /var/www/html/index.php
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Function: require_once
Many reputable medical journals, including The Lancet and the BMJ, have adopted the term "Theranostics". Under the alternative term "Theragnostics", PubMed currently registers 1207 articles. Both terms encountered by the reader for the first time are puzzling and largely meaningless, if not confusing. According to Idée et al. (2013), the concept of "Theranostics" was coined in 1998 in the USA by John Funkhouser, to describe a material that allows the combined diagnosis, treatment and follow up of a disease. Presumably the word was invented by truncating therapeutics to thera and diagnostics to nostics joining the two into Theranostics. But in Greek "thera" relates to hunting of wild beasts, the chase. Metaphorically, it may also mean "the eager pursuit of anything". Although chasing cancer by any means remains a justifiable and desirable pursuit, Theranostics does not exactly reflect the meaning intended by the originator. Iama (in Greek, ̓íαμα or ̓íημα) also refers to therapy but more importantly and specifically also, to means of therapy. May I, therefore, propose that a more meaningful term encompassing both therapy and diagnosis served by the same material, could be iama-gnostics? Considering the Anglo-Saxon compulsion for precise terminology and for laconic exactitude, could iama-gnostics find its place in the medical literature?
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