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Perception of palliative medicine by health care professionals at a teaching community hospital: what is the key to a “palliative attitude”?

open access: yesJournal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 2019
Nga Yu Cheung, Anna Gorelik, Parag Mehta, Louis Mudannayake, Arundati Ramesh, Thayyllathil Bharathan, Gregory GoldenbergDepartment of Medicine, New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, NY, USABackground: With growing expense in ...
Cheung NY   +6 more
doaj  

Hybrid Theory?: Creation of a Faculty Position That Allows Half-Time Hospice Employment Alongside Academic Palliative Care

open access: yesPalliative Medicine Reports, 2022
Background: The specialty of hospice and palliative medicine struggles to merge the fast-paced technological consultative work of acute hospital palliative care with slower paced and home-based hospice. Each has equal if different merits.
Michael Cafarchio   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The (Glg)ABCs of cyanobacteria: modelling of glycogen synthesis and functional divergence of glycogen synthases in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
We reconstituted Synechocystis glycogen synthesis in vitro from purified enzymes and showed that two GlgA isoenzymes produce glycogen with different architectures: GlgA1 yields denser, highly branched glycogen, whereas GlgA2 synthesizes longer, less‐branched chains.
Kenric Lee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Palliative care in Malawi: a scoping review

open access: yesBMC Palliative Care, 2023
Background Universal access to palliative care remains a distant goal in many low resource settings, despite the growing evidence of its benefits. The unmet need for palliative care is evident in Africa, but great strides in palliative care development ...
Natalie Palumbo   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

EoL: Towards Quality Care at the End of Life [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Palliative and end-of-life care must be available to all who require it, regardless of location, age, income, diagnosis or prognosis, and social and cultural background.

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Organ‐specific redox imbalances in spinal muscular atrophy mice are partially rescued by SMN antisense oligonucleotides

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
We identified a systemic, progressive loss of protein S‐glutathionylation—detected by nonreducing western blotting—alongside dysregulation of glutathione‐cycle enzymes in both neuronal and peripheral tissues of Taiwanese SMA mice. These alterations were partially rescued by SMN antisense oligonucleotide therapy, revealing persistent redox imbalance as ...
Sofia Vrettou, Brunhilde Wirth
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence of distressing symptoms in hospitalised patients on medical wards: A cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMC Palliative Care, 2008
Background Many patients with advanced, serious, non-malignant disease belong to the population generally seen on medical wards. However, little research has been carried out on palliative care needs in this group. The aims of this study were to estimate
Sigurdardottir Katrin, Haugen Dagny
doaj   +1 more source

Palliative medicine practitioners' views on the concept of depression in the palliative care setting [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Background: Despite its clinical importance in palliative care, depression remains an ambiguous concept. Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore how medical practitioners working in palliative care conceptualize depression in that setting ...
Anna Chur-Hansen   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
wiley   +1 more source

[Palliative medicine].

open access: yesTidsskrift for den Norske laegeforening : tidsskrift for praktisk medicin, ny raekke, 1997
Palliative medicine has its origin in the modern hospice movement. It is based upon an integrated-care concept for seriously ill and dying patients. The first consideration of this particular form of treatment is not to prolong life, but to reach the best possible quality of a patient's remaining lifetime. Therefore, palliative medicine consists of: (1)
E, Klaschik, S, Husebö
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