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This paper introduces SNAP (Structure, Narrative, Activation, Process, Next), a multidimensional clinical reflection tool supporting psychotherapists in systematically attending to phenomenological, relational, and process-oriented dimensions. SNAP i...

Distinguishing infectious collections from underlying malignancies may represent a significant diagnostic challenge, particularly when tumors present with necrotic, cystic, perforated, or abscess-like components. Here, we introduce the descriptive co...

Accurate and efficient seizure detection remains a major challenge for portable EEG-based monitoring systems, where computational and power limitations restrict the use of deep learning approaches. We introduce a compact set of fourteen propagation-b...

Background: Generative artificial intelligence (AI) can produce realistic human faces that are shared on social media, from where younger generations often derive body image norms. Aesthetic bias in these systems may promote unrealistic standards of...

Background: A training program for University Internship Supervisors in Dentistry (UISD) was created from scratch in 2022 at the Faculty of Dentistry in Tours. Designed to prepare practitioners for the role of UISD, it is structured into three distin...

Background: Conventional CT–dacryocystography (CT-DCG) requires canalicular cannulation and forced contrast injection, which may distort anatomy and cause discomfort. This study describes a non-cannulated CT-DCG protocol using dropwise iodixano...

Ossification of the vascular pedicle following fibula free flap (FFF) reconstruction is an uncommon and typically asymptomatic complication. Symptomatic cases requiring intervention are rare. We report a 29-year-old man with anterior maxillary osteos...

The current challenge for scientists, regardless of their research field or area of activity, consists in presenting the evidence emerging from studies carried out at the local, national, or even international level to the public and decision makers...

We are delighted to welcome the Journal of Interdisciplinary Research Applied to Medicine (JDReAM) [...]

The new therapeutic options now available for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have made their assessment more complex, especially due to the different stages of liver cirrhosis typically associated with this tumor. The management of the...

The development of precise quantitative metrics is essential for characterizing the response of biological systems to external perturbations, enabling a transition from qualitative observation to predictive modeling. In this context, mathematical fra...

The omics sciences of systems biology including genomics, transcriptomics, lipidomics, metabolomics, and proteomics, aim at understanding the biological mechanisms that give rise to the phenotype of an organism by using high-throughput technologies w...

Mitochondria of spermatozoa significantly differ, structurally and functionally, from the corresponding organelles of somatic cells. Nevertheless, sperm mitochondria, as well as the somatic ones, are the location of the oxidative phosphorylation (OXP...

Experimental research in this area focuses, in a section of the laboratory of Neurosciences, on new technologies applied to Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychophysiology. The aim of this paper will be highlighting the link between basic research and in...

During the radiation therapy (RT) process, the treatment is planned and simulated with a treatment planning system (TPS). Contouring identifies the Planning Treatment Volume (PTV), that is the physical RT treatment volume. PTV of Glioblastoma (GB) in...

Follicular Lymphoma (FL) is the second most frequent non-Hodgkin lymphoma accounting for approximately 10-20% of all lymphomas in Western Countries. Histologic transformation (HT) is a frequent event in the clinical course of patients with indolent l...

The Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is becoming a significant problem nowadays because it is associated with an increasing cardio-metabolic mortality. This disorder is increasing dramatically in the western world because it related to obesity. The cost...

The uterine rupture is a dramatic obstetrical event, fortunately unusual. Unfortunately, onset is often sudden, very often during pregnancy, in the third trimester, and during labor. The uterine rupture depends on a number of biological and mechanica...

The aim is to highlight the progress of earliness and quality of diagnosis and breast cancer cure in the Province of Lecce by surveying a number of indicators obtainable from surgical pathologist’s evaluation. The study, conducted with the software S...

The study and analysis of the organization in health care depends on some aspects that include the observation of social phenomena, law categories, and political strategies as well as the administrative behaviors. All these aspects have led to the ov...

Our medical information is perhaps considered the most personal and valuable of all. On the other hand, the rapid increase in the digitization of the healthcare industry nowadays is giving the patient identification and elec-tronic medical record mai...

Reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) is a new technique enabling the visualization of the skin at a quasi-histological resolution, allowing the identification of clues for the diagnosis of skin diseases. The aim of this anal-ysis was to provide new...

COPD is often accompanied by other chronic diseases that are also associated with systemic inflammation, such as obesity, diabetes, and arteriosclerosis. Recent data indicate that nocturnal oxygen desaturation and coexisting metabolic syndrome are re...

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease that can affect any organ or system of the body. Diabetes mellitus has long been considered as one of the factors causing Candida vaginitis and has the potential to affect sexual function in women. Infectious di...

In the Italian language the phoneme-to-grapheme mapping is fairly regular so that children are able to master very early reading and spelling skills. However, persisting phonological spelling deficits, were recently described in a sub-group of Italia...

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A fundamental right of every human being is the right to health, which implies the right to life and as such, it is fundamental, unavailable, non-erodible and practically enforceable [...]

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) syndrome is a condition characterized by the presence of complete or partial collapse of the upper airways during sleep, resulting in fragmentation of sleep associated with rapid episodes of intermittent hypoxia (IH) and...

Graph theory has been extensively applied in the study of proteins, although few applications still exist on biomolecules like aptamer-protein complexes, whose structure is in silico obtained. Aptamers represent a challenging field of research, espec...

A wide spectrum of diseases or conditions (genetically based or acquired), in the presence of triggering elements, can lead to arrhythmic events, having sudden death as a common result. The substrate of fatal arrhythmia de-pends on age: over 35 years...

Diagnosis and management of prolonged second stage of labor and its complications is difficult and often poses a dilemma to the treating obstetrician regarding timing and type of intervention. Nowadays, the diagnosis of dys-tocic prolonged second sta...

At the beginning, it was the French philosopher Michel Foucault who explicitly defined medicine as a matter of biopolitics, making evident the role that, in his opinion, medical knowledge assumed in certain strategies of pow-er. Starting from this as...

Autophagy is a cellular catabolic process in which cytoplasmic material is delivered to lysosomes for degradation. The autophagy process is regulated by highly conserved autophagy-related genes (ATGs) via different signalling pathways. Among the vari...

Researching in new technologies for diagnosis, planning and medical treatment have allowed the development of computer tools that provide new ways of representing data obtained from patient’s medical images such as com-puted tomography (CT) and magne...

The postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) it is one of the worst complications of the pregnant woman and the leading cause of maternal mortality in the world, as it produces potentially catastrophic effects on patients, with high morbidity and morbidity. Likew...

The goal of this paper is to identify and interpret the relationship between the Symbolic Universes (S.U.) and their specific declination in the health context, more precisely how it is expressed in the focus groups on vaccina-tions. I will introduce...

Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is the most common respiratory disorder in Western societies: according to a first recent worldwide epidemiological study, it was estimated that 936 million patients aged 30-69 years with mild to moderate OSA and 425 mil...

The production of speech requires the interplay of a number of cognitive and motoric activities, which make it an interesting object of study from both a linguistic and a medical point of view. In this paper, we discuss, first, the features and domai...

Mounier Kuhn syndrome or tracheobronchomegaly is characterized by a marked dilatation of the trachea and main bronchi that can extend to the periphery of the lungs. Dilation is due to an alteration of the cartilaginous and membranous structure of the...

The health sector is being studied as an object of individual interest with that of society, in order to pursue equity without sacrificing efficiency, citizens of different Italian regions can access services that are equal in quantity and quality. I...

Overweight and obesity in paediatric population are becoming serious public health problems, reaching epidemic proportions in the world and being recognized as the “new pandemic of the twenty first century”. Food choices and nutritional habits are st...

Background. Attitudes, knowledge and practices of nurses towards HIV/AIDS patients are of continuous in-terest, especially in developing countries. However, in Italy, this topic is still scarcely debated. Materials and methods. An observational, cros...

In this paper we establish a baseline to use Stentor coeruleus, a freshwater single cell ciliate, as a chemical biosensor. We expose Stentor to an array of chemical species and concentration and monitored morphological and dynamic responses. We devel...

Osteoplastic tracheopathy is a rare disease with dark etiology, characterized by the presence of nodular cartilagi-nous or bone nodular growths (masses and spicules) in the lumen of the tracheobronchial tree. According to some authors, these nodular...

Background: Cesarean myomectomy (CM) is, for many gynecologists, a discussed surgical procedure character-ized by fibroid’s removal during cesarean section (CS) followed by possible complications. For a long time, it has been common and shared thinki...

In the context of the global changes that affect families and communities, including the current COVID-19 pan-demic, today’s young people face new threats to their health and most of them lack adequate nutrition, healthcare services and education. As...

In addition to biochemical and molecular signals coming from the microenvironment, cells are able to sense and integrate mechanical stresses, additional fundamental regulators of cell behaviour. Emerging demonstrations in-dicate that mechanical cues...

Domestic violence is characterized by coercive actions of various kinds (psychological, physical, sexual and eco-nomic) that persist over time; the chronicity of these same actions implies the development of short, medium and long term consequences t...

A short review of some recent findings in the field of automatic voice disorders detection and classification is provided in this article. The matter is getting more and more interest due to appealing non-invasiveness of the methods as well as the go...

Intrauterine adhesions (IUAs) caused by endometrial injury have a serious impact on women’s fertility and mor-bility and involves a wide range of patients. Although the first case of IUAs was published in 1984 by Heinrich Fritsch, a full description...