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Processes of Cultural Change and Health Education Short Communication In the era of globalisation, the profound technological transformation of production processes is leading to an important change in both the pace of life and time of work, study and leisure. The strong technological acceleration produced by the fastest means of transport, forces us to travel, to run without considering however the impact of our way of travelling on the environment and on the quality of life in our city. In an ever more interconnected world, which changes with extraordinary rapidity and speed, it becomes urgent to reflect on phenomena that we usually define synthetically with the industry 4.0 [ 1 ]. How do we educate ourselves in these profound changes? How to question the opportunities that new generations will have to make a great contribution to human and sustainable development in the future of society. If in the time of St. Jerome the language was latin today is the “digital”, the language

Assisted Suicide in Italy: Constitutional right or wishful Thinking? Opinion Italy could soon join the group of states that, under certain conditions, allow assisted suicide. The Constitutional Court, in fact, has set for next September 24th the hearing for officially dealing with the constitutional legitimacy of the article of the criminal code that prohibits, in absolute terms, any activity of abetting suicide. However, already in a previous hearing, the Court anticipated that this prohibition is unconstitutional (order no. 207, October 24th, 2018). The case came before the Constitutional Court following the indictment of Mr Marco Cappato for having helped Mr Fabiano Antoniani (known as DJ Fabo) commit suicide. DJ Fabo was rendered blind and quadriplegic by a car accident in 2014. He could breathe autonomously only for short periods and was therefore mechanically ventilated. He was fed artificially and, quoting the Court itself, he “suffered particularly int

Characterization of Atherosclerotic Plaques by NIRS-IVUS System Introduction Nowadays, the pathologies of the cardiovascular system represent the main cause of mortality in our country: about 45% of all deaths are, in fact, attributable to cardiovascular diseases. In particular, of the 250,000 cases of annual death due to cardiovascular diseases, two-thirds are attributable to coronary heart disease. Atherosclerosis is the vascular pathology with the greatest clinical impact because it is responsible for myocardial infarction and cerebrovascular accidents that represent the main cause of death and morbidity in industrialized countries. Coronary atherosclerosis is a multifactorial pathology that, to become clinically manifest, requires the formation of a fibro-lipid plaque inside the wall of an artery that reduces blood flow; it is a dynamic degenerative disease that can have a sudden transition from a chronic condition to clinical instability following a process of p

Assessment of Serum Lipid Profile among Male Cigarette Smokers in Jos Metropolis Abstract Background:  Cigarette smoking is one of the habits that affects health but there is increase in number of people adapting to the habit day after day globally and in Jos-Nigeria. Aim of study:  The study is aimed at finding out the effect of smoking on lipid profiles between smokers and non-smokers so as to provide information for use to educate and advice smokers appropriately on the dangers of smoking. Study volunteers and methods:  A cross sectional comparative study was performed in Jos metropolis to evaluate the change in the serum lipid profile in healthy male smokers and non-smokers subject between the ages of 15-45years. A total of 100 volunteers were selected and grouped as non-smokers (control) and smokers. All subjects were issued with questionnaire to get the vital data of the subjects. Biochemical analysis of fasting serum lipid profile of each group was assessed by enzym

Recent Advance in Biomedical Omics Data Analysis Short Communication Sequencing technology is dominant in the study of complex human genetic diseases. Identified risk genes and other biomarkers will make genetic counselling, risk assessment and avoidance, and disease diagnosis and treatment possible. Benefit from the discovered biomarkers, many diseases could be accurate diagnosed and prevented, as well as accurate treated. Nevertheless, the molecular mechanisms of many neuropsychiatric disorders are still unclear and there are no effective treatments for these neuropsychiatric disorders. The rapid development of whole genome sequencing technology, large amounts of genetic data are generated concerning larger cohorts with diverse neuropsychiatric disorders [ 1 ], making it possible to detect various genetic variants, i.e. SNVs, InDels, and SVs. Genetic research of these disorders are focused on genome-wide association analysis (GWAS), pedigree analysis, twin family studies,

Toxicological Effects, Prophylactic and Curative Activity of Rauwolfia vomitoria Leaf Extracts on Plasmodium Berghei NK 65 infected Swiss albino mice Abstract This study evaluates prophylactic and curative antiplasmodial effects of  Rauwolfia vomitoria  leaf extracts on Plasmodium berghei NK 65. The extracts of the leaves at 100, 200 and 400 mg kg-1 body weight/day dose levels were used to treat the test groups 72 hours before infection for the prophylactic test and 72 hours post infection for the curative test while a standard antimalarial drug, chloroquine, at a dose of 5 mg kg-1 body weight was administered on the positive control group. The negative control groups were left untreated. The level of parasitemia, Percentage Packed Cell Volume (% PCV), erythrocytes (RBC) and leukocytes (WBC) counts in the different groups were monitored also, bicarbonate, creatinine, uric acid, urea, calcium level and histological effects of extracts were determined during the period of study.