Dedicated to biology, health sciences, and medical research, this category highlights advancements in understanding life processes and improving healthcare
136 Publications
Horst Kress
In the first essay on the subject of the „Renaissance of Lamarckism“ (JOSHA Vol. 3, Issue 4), we explored the historical roots of this term. We saw that Lamarck's (1744-1829)…
Chiara Salabé
Photography has the aim to provide knowledge about the world we live in seizing from the continually changing information one unique moment which expresses the reality (of the artist). Also…
Maria Paula Gonzalez Galvis, Luis Alfonso Díaz-Martínez, Luis Miguel Sosa Ávila
Departamento de Pediatría, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Industrial de Santander. Bucaramanga
The diminished inflammatory response in patients with febrile neutropenia secondary to chemotherapy makes it hard to discard a urinary tract infection based solely on the physical evaluation of the patient…
Stephanie Lim, Jeremiah de Leon
Department of Medical Oncology, Macarthur Cancer Therapy Centre
This short paper reflects on the attitudes that modern society has towards death, which affect and form the language that we use to describe death. The key domains of concern…
Arvind Venkat, Arnie Aldridge, Shannon Kearney, John Radack, Sherry Rickard-Aasen, Kim Grasso, Jaime Fawcett, Janice Pringle
The Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Perception Questionnaire (AAPPQ) is a survey for evaluating the attitudes of clinicians towards patients with alcohol use disorders. A locally-developed research instrument for a Screening,…
Frank Wertheimer
Krauss Law
Recently, the German government has planned to reform the medical school education system. Under the heading “masterplan medical education 2020” a commission composed of science and health ministers has been…
Erwin Neher
Max-Planck Institute for biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
The concept of bioelectricity emerged in the late 18th century, based on the experiments of Galvani and Volta. Sixty years ago Hodgkin and Huxley showed that the nerve impulse is…
Jenny Groten, Christoph Borner, Roland Mertelsmann
Institut für Molekulare Medizin und Zellforschung
The overall aim of this investigation was to identify the fundamental phenotypic traits of a cancer cell to develop an “in silico” simulation model and, vice versa redefine the identified…
Christof von Kalle
The National Center for Tumor Diseases – NCT Heidelberg was founded as an exceptional alliance between the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg University Hospital (UKL-HD), the Heidelberg Medical Faculty,…
Roland Mertelsmann
Albert-Ludwigs Universität
Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide. President Roosevelt first established the National Cancer Institute and, later, President Nixon signed into law the National Cancer Act of 1971…
