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Dedicated to biology, health sciences, and medical research, this category highlights advancements in understanding life processes and improving healthcare

136 Publications

The Principles of Cancer: A Metaphor of Life?
Life Sciences
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.6.6.572

The Principles of Cancer: A Metaphor of Life?

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Roland Mertelsmann, Alexandros Spyridonidis

Albert-Ludwigs Universität

While cancer is a complex disease with a multitude of clinical presentations, a few principles can be discerned. Cancer is old; it existed already in the earliest multicellular organisms. Cancer…

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CASE REPORT: ORALLY TRANSMITTED ACUTE CHAGAS’ DISEASE FROM A CASE IN A PUBLIC HOSPITAL IN BUCARAMANGA CITY, COLOMBIA.
Medicine
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.6.4.551

CASE REPORT: ORALLY TRANSMITTED ACUTE CHAGAS’ DISEASE FROM A CASE IN A PUBLIC HOSPITAL IN BUCARAMANGA CITY, COLOMBIA.

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Angie Katherine Bello Suárez, Patrik Eliana Sarmiento Wilches, Luis Miguel Sosa Ávila

Universidad Industrial de Santander

CONCEPTS Chagas’ disease, a zoonosis caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, is present in South America. Can be vectorborne, bloodborne and congenital infection. It shows tropism through smooth cardiac and gastrointestinal muscle,…

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Can a Selection-Centric, Strengths-Based Approach to Cancer Treatment Help Treat or Prevent Cancer and Metastatic Disease?
Life Sciences
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.6.3.546

Can a Selection-Centric, Strengths-Based Approach to Cancer Treatment Help Treat or Prevent Cancer and Metastatic Disease?

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Bruce Gottlieb

Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Department of Human Genetics. McGill University

Dr. Bruce Gottlieb is the Project Director of the Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research at the Jewish General Hospital and Adjunct Professor of the Department of Human Genetics &…

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DEMETRIOS PRIZE 2019! Functional outcomes of radial head fractures type III and IV, after management with arthroplasty or internal fixation.
Demetrios Project
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.6.2.542

DEMETRIOS PRIZE 2019! Functional outcomes of radial head fractures type III and IV, after management with arthroplasty or internal fixation.

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Diego Armando Guzmán Abello, Cesar Augusto Abril Gaona

Facultad de salud Departamento de cirugía. Universidad Industrial de Santander

This article of one of the winners of the DEMETRIOS PRIZE 2019 covers everything related to radial cup fractures, which account for 4% of anatomical fractures. Despite advances and innovations…

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Unraveling the syndrome of the age-associated diseases: Cancer, Cardiovascular, and Neurological disorders. Common pathways and novel therapeutic strategies
Life Sciences
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.6.2.539

Unraveling the syndrome of the age-associated diseases: Cancer, Cardiovascular, and Neurological disorders. Common pathways and novel therapeutic strategies

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Laura Faletti, Roland Mertelsmann, Katja Zirlik

Department of Medicine I: Oncology, Hematology, and Stem Cell Transplantation, Freiburg University Medical Center, and Institute of Molecular Medicine and Cell Research, Freiburg University

Cardiovascular diseases and cancer are the most frequent causes of death in the industrialized world and their incidence increases significantly with age. Interestingly, autoimmunity is also seen with a higher…

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ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE PULSATILITY INDEX OF THE AORTIC ISTHMUS AND THE CARDIAC FUNCTION OF THE LEFT VENTRICLE IN FETUSES BELOW THE PERCENTILE THREE FOR THE GESTATIONAL AGE.
Medicine
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.6.2.532

ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE PULSATILITY INDEX OF THE AORTIC ISTHMUS AND THE CARDIAC FUNCTION OF THE LEFT VENTRICLE IN FETUSES BELOW THE PERCENTILE THREE FOR THE GESTATIONAL AGE.

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Malka Wadnipar, Juan Carlos Otero Pinto

Universidad Industrial de Santander

Background: The evaluation of the fetal circulation, mainly of the umbilical artery (AU), middle cerebral artery (MCA) and ductus venosus (DV), have been the pillars in the diagnosis and monitoring…

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Vascular trauma and lactate clearance as predictor determining mortality. Case report.
Medicine
| DOI: 10.17160/josha.5.10.512

Vascular trauma and lactate clearance as predictor determining mortality. Case report.

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Carlos Andres Cortes Samaca, Héctor Julio Meléndez Flórez, sonia margarita vivas garcia, Andrea Juliana Castillo Niño

Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Industrial de Santander

Introduction: The serial measurement of serum lactate is essential for monitoring the therapeutic response of initial resuscitation and damage control in patients with vascular trauma, as well as a predictor…

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