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Healthcare, Volume 1, Issue 1

December 2013 - 8 articles

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Articles (8)

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,062 Views
7 Pages

Cutaneous Alternariosis Caused by Alternaria infectoria: Three Cases in Kidney Transplant Patients

  • Leonor Lopes,
  • João Borges-Costa,
  • Luís Soares-Almeida,
  • Paulo Filipe,
  • Fernanda Neves,
  • Alice Santana,
  • José Guerra and
  • Heinz Kutzner

30 October 2013

The genus Alternaria has more than 80 species. Alternaria alternata and Alternaria infectoria are the most frequent species associated with infections in humans. Their clinical importance lies in the growing number of cases reported in immunocompromi...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
2 Citations
11,375 Views
4 Pages

25 October 2013

No particular regimen is considered standard therapy for widespread metastatic melanoma, although surgery is the primary choice for regional nodal metastases. Systemic interleukin-2 (IL-2) is an effective immunotherapy for melanoma, but standard dose...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,972 Views
12 Pages

23 October 2013

Examination by ultrasonography (US) is a rapid, sensitive, cost-effective, and even portable technique for confirming the presence of tumors. However, US is not routinely used worldwide for the diagnostic work-up of cutaneous malignant melanoma. High...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
10,102 Views
20 Pages

Detection and Discrimination of Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer by Multimodal Imaging

  • Sandro Heuke,
  • Nadine Vogler,
  • Tobias Meyer,
  • Denis Akimov,
  • Franziska Kluschke,
  • Hans-Joachim Röwert-Huber,
  • Jürgen Lademann,
  • Benjamin Dietzek and
  • Jürgen Popp

17 October 2013

Non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) belongs to the most frequent human neoplasms. Its exposed location facilitates a fast ambulant treatment. However, in the clinical practice far more lesions are removed than necessary, due to the lack of an efficient p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,790 Views
11 Pages

12 September 2013

Preventive care for frail older adults includes providing tailor-made diet information suited to their health conditions. The present study aims to explore the current situation and challenges of home nutrition advice for Japanese frail older adults...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
13,537 Views
33 Pages

Emerging Therapeutic Enhancement Enabling Health Technologies and Their Discourses: What Is Discussed within the Health Domain?

  • Gregor Wolbring,
  • Lucy Diep,
  • Sophya Yumakulov,
  • Natalie Ball,
  • Verlyn Leopatra and
  • Dean Yergens

So far, the very meaning of health and therefore, treatment and rehabilitation is benchmarked to the normal or species-typical body. We expect certain abilities in members of a species; we expect humans to walk but not to fly, but a bird we expect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6,419 Views
15 Pages

Malignant melanoma is an aggressive disease that has been increasing worldwide. Public education is trying to focus on reducing intense sun exposure and raise awareness of signs and symptoms to prevent illness. The aim of the study was to describe an...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,370 Views
4 Pages

30 January 2013

The English word "health" comes from the Old English word hale, meaning "wholeness, a state of being and feeling whole, sound or well" [1]. Hale comes from the Proto-Indo-European root "kailo", meaning "whole, uninjured, of good omen". Kailo comes fr...

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