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New Perspectives and Competences in Redesign Clinical Organization and Appropriateness in Internal Medicine Wards: The Impact of ICT   Abstract Modern Internal Medicine is faced with the need to ensure continuity of care by operating in highly technological contexts. The complexity in managing today’s health needs must adapt to the growing articulation of demand and, on this basis, create flexible responses to emerging opportunities. Nowadays we are witnessing a new evolution in communication, with the expansion of virtual technologies that increasingly replace traditional forms. In this article we will briefly discuss the feasibility and the impact of new medical technologies, communications set and devices application in Internal Medicine, with particular attention to chronic patients, with prolonged interventions to support a growing fragility, favouring integration in health, social and welfare services. Keywords: Information and Communication Techn...

Detection of Essential Oils Adulteration: A Quick Overview and Current Challenges Opinion Essential oils are highly appreciated raw materials due to a variety of their intrinsic characteristics and properties. They are complex mixtures of volatile compounds produced by plants as secondary metabolites; communicational and defence roles were attributed to constituents of essential oils [ 1 ]. Over the years, many researchers have reported a great variety of properties of essential oils including antimicrobial and antioxidant activities, as well as, some other effects of biological interest that could be used in human and veterinary medicine [ 1 ]. Therefore, not only wellknown essential oils are more demanded in the market, but also enormous efforts are focused on the extraction and characterization of alternative sources of these products. From an economic point of view, this fact can significate the opening of opportunities for developing countries in South Asia, Africa, and Lati...

Editorial on Carcinoma Prostate Editorial When healthy and normal cells in the body change and grow out of control it forms a cancer. There are different kinds of cancers. Most common are the breast Cancer, thyroid cancer and prostate cancer. Breast cancer and prostate cancer spread to bones most commonly. A cancer can be a benign cancer or a malignant cancer. A malignant tumour has a metastatic spread that is it spread to other organs whereas a benign cancer can grow but cannot spread [ 1 ]. Prostate cancer is one the unusual yet very common cancer affecting most of the population. It is different from rest of the cancers as it doesn’t spread quickly to other parts of body. Mostly the prostate cancer is slowly growing and doesn’t cause any obvious sign and symptoms. The usual symptoms are frequent and painful micturation, burning micturation, blood in urine and seminal fluid, weak and interrupted urine flow and new onset of erectile dysfunction [ 2 ]. Prostate cancer is som...

Add Onion to Your Dishes to Clean Your Arteries Opinion One of my close family members had some heart valve problems recently. He went through many heart-related tests, such as, electrocardiogram (EKG) [ 1 ], Echocardiogram test [ 2 ], transesophageal echo test (TEE) [ 2 ], and cardiac catheterization (CATH) [ 2 ], etc. The last one, CATH, is to check the coronary arteries blockage. Among all the bad news, one good result is that his blood vessels are very clean, without any build-up of fatty deposits, and even the doctor was a little bit surprised; since so many people are suffering from clogged arteries at this stage of life. For the next few days, I was ponding the test result and trying to figure out what we eat regularly that may contribute to the clean arteries. I searched internet for heart healthy food [ 3 ]; many were listed, such as, leafy green vegetables, whole grains, berries, avocados, fish, nuts, beans, chocolate, tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, and green teas, ...

  An internet is one of the most powerful tool for remote Medical Consultation for peers  Abstract In order to get help, sometimes people can be assisted via a modern social network service like Facebook. This friend of mine was timely helped just the right time before he did anything wrong into his own help condition. Via regular check Facebook posting, I found his post very striking in term of picture and the question. I, therefore, took action immediately as I should. Luckily, he complied to my advice and got the right intervention with his doctor. In my opinion, Facebook can be one of the interesting tools for our medical personals to think about when it comes to Health services. Main Text This is an interesting case actually happening with me before I wrote this article. A week before the end of June, a friend of mine posted the picture of his infecting-like finger ( Figure 1 ) on his Facebook and I immediately give him an adv...