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The identity of the person with dementia

Details: Published: Wednesday, 17 April 2019 17:35; Written by Flavia Caretta

Nearly 50 million people worldwide suffer from dementia. According to current forecasts, by the year 2050, this figure will have tripled.

International seminar for Health workers

Details: Published: Friday, 02 November 2018 11:15; Written by HDC

NOV. 23-25 2018 - MAN (Côte d'Ivoire) Multi-ethnical societies and medical practices. Anthropological and ethnografhic perspectives of Westen and African medicine.

Fighting the loneliness epidemic

Details: Published: Wednesday, 12 September 2018 12:06; Written by Sarah Mundell

The former U.S. surgeon general and others encourage ways to address the risks of social isolation. Moments of tragedy are often times when neighbors also come together to show their solidarity and support, but after a few weeks or months, that sense of caring for one another can fade into the background.

Summer School Barcellona 2018

Details: Published: Tuesday, 07 August 2018 10:52; Written by HDC

Se sei un giovane professionista o uno studente di materie biomediche, avrai senz'altro iniziato a confrontarti.

È aperta l'iscrizione!

Building Communities:

Details: Published: Tuesday, 05 June 2018 17:00; Written by Nadia - Secretary

Promoting Health. La pediatra indiana Kezevino Aram, direttrice dell’International Center for Child and Public Health, sarà la protagonista dell’incontro che si terrà venerdì 8 giugno

Congresso CARUARU 2018

Details: Published: Wednesday, 23 May 2018 16:42; Written by Nadia - Secretary

Brasil 23-25 Agosto 2018. Diálogo Interdisciplinar na Construção da Saúde Integral. Atualmente é consenso comum que a bioquímica e a genética não são suficientes para uma compreensão perspicaz da saúde e da doença,

Medical Professionalism: a GP’s Perspective

Details: Published: Friday, 23 February 2018 16:06; Written by MABEL AGHADIUNHO

“A really good liver” I remember when I was a medical student the excitement of going round the wards with a keen doctor who would take us to feel a “really good spleen” or listen to an “interesting cardiac murmur”. Like my fellow students in our new, pristine white coats, I was very excited. However, something in me rebelled and a little voice said, “This isn’t quite right”. It was not that we did not greet the patient, ask permission to examine and do all that medical etiquette and politeness required. I felt uneasy and could not articulate why.

Evolution of the hospital and commitments to be assumed

Details: Published: Monday, 12 February 2018 16:13; Written by YVONNE KREMMER

Evolution of medicine and of the hospital. Through the centuries, the European hospital has gone through a real metamorphosis.
Starting from the “Hospitalis Domus”, the house where guests were received during the first centuries of our era, the hospital was primarily the place where Christian charity was exercised through all ages.

The Therapy for Chronic Pain: Painmedicine

Details: Published: Wednesday, 07 February 2018 15:15; Written by GABRIELE M.

I am specialised in anaesthesia and I have other specialisations in pain therapy, acupuncture and palliative medicine. I work with 5 colleagues in a specialised medical surgery. (In Germany the national health system has two branches: hospitals and medical clinics/surgeries). Our clinic for pain therapy and palliative medicine, is the biggest medical surgery for the therapy of chronic pain in Germany.

What is Professionalism to me? How do I practice it?

Details: Published: Monday, 05 February 2018 15:34; Written by AINO MIRJAM INKERI KELO

Right from the beginning of my professional career, it was very clear for me that the patient had to occupy centre stage. As I practised medicine, I understood that this preference had to be translated into practical choices, which were sometimes small but nonetheless fundamental.

From interrelationship to reciprocity: its implications in the medical sphere

Details: Published: Sunday, 04 February 2018 17:30; Written by ANNA FRATTA

We have reflected on the importance of communication and the art of interrelating in Medicine. My task now is to talk about the significance and value of reciprocity.
It is our conviction that knowing how to communicate and to enter into a relationship with another – whether this person is a colleague, a health worker, a patient or his/her relatives – requires a step farther: to arrive at a reciprocal relationship.

International Projects: Achievements, Preliminary Results, New Horizons

Details: Published: Friday, 02 February 2018 17:27; Written by ANTONIA TESTA, DIRK TIMMERMAN and LIL VALENTIN

The preoperative diagnosis of ovarian masses is essential to provide an appropriate clinical treatment. The introduction of transvaginal ultrasonography has given us the opportunity to obtain preoperative diagnostic parameters which offer extraordinary diagnostic accuracy.

A new cultural model for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. A project in Africa, based on UNAIDS recommendations

Details: Published: Thursday, 25 January 2018 16:15; Written by MARCEL MBULA

The cultural model - HIV/AIDS is an important public health problem in Sub-Saharan Africa, where 63 % of adults and children who are infected by HIV or suffering from AIDS in the world are living. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 2.5 million people are infected by HIV or are suffering from AIDS. The seroprevalence of HIV infection is 4.3 %.

Bukas Palad: Community Healthcare in Manila

Details: Published: Wednesday, 24 January 2018 17:18; Written by IMELDA PALOMINO

Bukas Palad Foundation Inc., is a non-stock, non-profit and non-government organization. It is established in 1983, to respond to social and health problems of poorest people in Philippines.

A Journey in Reciprocity: from the Clinica Sorriso (in Igarassu, Brazil) to the Clinic dor Adopted and Immigrant Children

Details: Published: Tuesday, 23 January 2018 10:25; Written by GIUSEPPINA VENERUSO

The Clinica Sorriso (translated as Smile Clinic) was built in 1993 in the town of Igarassu in northeastern Brazil. It is the result of a solidarity based which was promoted in Italy when I returned from my first trip to Brazil. The clinic was opened in order to meet the health needs of the pupils of Santa Maria School, an activity which was started in 1969 in the city of Santa Maria where the school is located.