Category: Health security in a nutshell
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Behind the wall. Why sex does not matter
By Marta Koblańska, January 25/2025, 11:15, Photo: Julita, Pixabay What shops in Poland hide from the sight? Some of them school-aged children who instead of learning maths, are trying to escape of their hurt. Work in a grocery takes you to another world. All the sudden you are finding out that law binding in your…
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When your body is starving relief. Pain treatment at the edge of life
By Marta Koblańska, Photo: Dmitriy, Pixabay Various civilizations approached differently to people who needed strong care due to their health status. Western civilization is claiming its supreme role in gently transition of human to the end. Palliative care is a kind of new medicine branch and has not been implemented in some countries, yet. Its…
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What can heart do on the Earth? Cutting-edge technology saving life in Poland
Joy of prof. Rafał Krenke, the head of Warsaw Medical University and doctors who performed heart transplantation. Photo: Jarosław Kulczycki/WUM A 14-years girl dreams to go to high-school may become true as she received heart on time despite a long way transport. A new perfusion and temperature technology sustained life in the heart for over…
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Why are we happy when learn with positive outcomes? Dopamine which opens our minds just like it.
D1R photo-activation in neurons of the dorsomedial striatum combined with two-photon imaging of activity in L5 cortico-striatal projection neurons. Photo: Nuria Vendrell-Llopis, Jonathan Read, University of California, Berkeley Dopamine can modify already set patterns in our brain thus leading to a change of behavior. This neurotransmitter is doing so by activation a certain receptor in…
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The key for domestication. Humans’ capability or plant’s domesticability?
Oryginal date of publishing January 15/2025, By Marta Koblańska, Photo: Pixabay Just 15 edible plants provide us 90 percent of calories while a few hundred have been finally domesticated of the thousands of them. Why? The answer might be eligibility for domestication or humans’ limited ability. As state scientists, University of Southampton, UK in the…