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PLEA FOR A CORRECT USE OF STEM CELLS IN THERAPY
The “Stem Cell Research Italy” Association (www.stemcellitaly.org) and the “Sbarro Health Research Organization” (www.shro.org) make a public plea for a correct use of stem cell therapy in Italy and Europe.
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How the Mafia Is Ruining Naples’s Food Scene
People around the world have embraced the local food movement as a way to support local economies, eat healthier and reduce their carbon footprint. Residents of Naples, Italy, however, are doing just the opposite.
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Tummy Tuck: Risks and Rewards
Tummy tucks, also known by their medical name of abdominoplasty, are a popular cosmetic surgery. People who have lost large amounts of weight or had several children are especially likely to have excess skin and…
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Numbers count for what concerns cancer
Philadelphia, November 30th, 2012. A new study on the incidence of breast cancer in Italy has been
published in the International Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research. The authors
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine and its use in Cancer Patients
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is defined as a group of different medical and health care practices with non-pharmacological products that are not presently considered part of conventional medicine. Complementary medicine is used together or…
General Medicine
How the Mafia Is Ruining Naples’s Food Scene
People around the world have embraced the local food movement as a way to support local economies, eat healthier and reduce their carbon footprint. Residents of Naples, Italy, however, are doing just the opposite.
Napolitanos…
An approach of memory by the optics of medical philosophy
The memory system began to be studied in ancient philosophy and nowadays its research,basically,belongs to the cognitive neuroscience.At medical science is still,till today,unproven the mechanism of its funtion.The medical philosophy can achieve the difficult attempt…
First Aid
After various considerations we decided to give our readers a brief introduction to a very important and serious topic that is not talked about enough: “FIRST AID”
To do this we decided to write a…
Systems Biology
Systems biology is the study of biology through systematic perturbation, the global read-out of the multifaceted response and integration of these data to formulate predictive models1. Classical biology is based on a reductionist model in…
Muscles and their movements
A brief general introduction to the functioning of our muscles is necessary before talking about training and nutrition.
How can we train to change and improve our bodies, if we do not know the names…
The embryo of the sea urchin.
The case of Campania is probably not only the most serious, ingrained, and institutionalized
among the territories controlled by the eco-mafia in Italy. It is unique in the world, also, or especially, because of the…
PLEA FOR A CORRECT USE OF STEM CELLS IN THERAPY
The “Stem Cell Research Italy” Association (www.stemcellitaly.org) and the “Sbarro Health Research Organization” (www.shro.org) make a public plea for a correct use of stem cell therapy in Italy and Europe.
Stem Cell Research Italy (SCR…
How the Mafia Is Ruining Naples’s Food Scene
People around the world have embraced the local food movement as a way to support local economies, eat healthier and reduce their carbon footprint. Residents of Naples, Italy, however, are doing just the opposite.
Napolitanos…
Tummy Tuck: Risks and Rewards
Tummy tucks, also known by their medical name of abdominoplasty, are a popular cosmetic surgery. People who have lost large amounts of weight or had several children are especially likely to have excess skin and…
Numbers count for what concerns cancer
Philadelphia, November 30th, 2012. A new study on the incidence of breast cancer in Italy has been
published in the International Journal of Experimental and Clinical Cancer Research. The authors
belong to a multidisciplinary Italian-American…
Complementary and Alternative Medicine and its use in Cancer Patients
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is defined as a group of different medical and health care practices with non-pharmacological products that are not presently considered part of conventional medicine. Complementary medicine is used together or…
5th Annual Grande Ippocrate Award for Scientific Research and Communication Presented to This Year’s Researcher of the Year, Antonio Giordano, M.D., Ph.D.
Milan, November 9, 2012 – Antonio Giordano, M.D., Ph.D. is being awarded the Grande Ippocrate Award for Scientific Research and Communication. The award ceremony will take place at the “Castel Nuovo”on November 19, 2012, commencing…
Conference on Breast Cancer: Bridging Research and Clinical Medicine
On October 12, 2012, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., the Sbarro Health Research Organization, Inc. (S.H.R.O.), the Giovan Giacomo Giordano Foundation, the College of Science and Technology at Temple University and the National Italian American…
CAMPANIA – LAND OF POISON
On July the 30th, the Pascale Tumor Institute of Naples made a shocking report: 47% more people are stricken with cancer in Naples than in the rest of the Italy.
This figure is disturbing, but…
Fostering International Entrepreneurship & Innovation
U.S. & Italian Strategies for Turning Research into Business
The Italian Trade Commission invites you to an international training seminar that aims to provide concrete tools and examples to support the commercialization of science research…
The Price of a False Idea about Economic Growth
Two Crises
In ancient Ionia, the physician-philosopher Galen of Pergamos and Rome wrote, children would take pig bladders, “fill them with air, and then rub them with ashes near the fire …and sing songs [in]…
Novel Mechanism May Lead to New Targeted Pharmacological Cancer Treatment
Inactivation of the retinoblastoma tumor suppressor protein (pRb) by phosphorylation triggers uncontrolled cell proliferation. Accordingly, activation of cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK)/cyclin complexes or downregulation of CDK inhibitors appears as a common event in human cancer.
Now,…
Hope: a therapeutic tool?
Patients with advanced-stage cancer are generally submitted to so-called palliative treatments that primarily aim to control symptoms such as pain and malnourishment, but also psychological and social problems. The goal of such treatments is to…
8 rules for living better
A healthy diet, which is rich in fruits and vegetables, whole grains and legumes and contains limited red meat, preserved meats and sugared beverages, protects against tumor development and recurrences.
The right diet can be…
The V Astana Economic Forum
In May 22-24, 2012, in Astana (Kazakhstan) will be held the Fifth Astana Economic Forum (AEF), dedicated to the challenges and prospects of world economic development in terms of global transformation.
One of the exclusive…
Opinion: Good, But Not Good Enough
The system for funding scientific research is broken.
This declaration came to my mind after I experienced three separate occurrences. The first was my application for a European research grant. At the end of the…
New Hope for Amyloidosis Patients Facing Organ Transplants or Dealing with Side Effects
Amyloidosis patients are expected to see some significant breakthroughs in treatment over the next three years, reducing side effects and possibly the need for organ transplants, research by healthcare market analysis specialist GlobalData has found.…
Gary Stein
Gary Stein, graduate of the University of Vermont is returning home as co-Director of the Vermont Cancer Center and Chair of the Department of Biochemistry. Following graduate training at UVM in physiology and biology…
Specialized Medicine
The Price of a False Idea about Economic Growth
Two Crises
In ancient Ionia, the physician-philosopher Galen of Pergamos and Rome wrote, children would take pig bladders, “fill them with air, and then rub them with ashes near the fire …and sing songs [in]…
Grant helps build NeuroAIDS research capacity at Temple University School of Medicine
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has awarded Temple University a five-year, $8.34 million grant to create a Comprehensive NeuroAIDS Core Center (CNAC) at the School of Medicine.
The new center, one of only…
The Medea syndrome hypothesis of the transfer from baby to fetus
“Medea syndrome” refers to the complex picture of signs and symptoms that characterize the female parent that, in response to stress and / or conflict with her partner, discharges her aggression and frustration into her…
The “TB case”
In our society, flooded with a multitude of news destined to evaporate in a few days, the “TB case”, which for weeks has been the scoop in newspapers and TV, is causing unnecessary anxiety and…
VirusSphere
Viruses are entities on the boundary between the living and inanimate matter. Rather than living organisms, they resemble crystals or mere machines. Since 1940, when they have been photographed for the first time, their form…
