Category: Medicine in a nutshell
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When your body is starving relieve. Pain treatment at the edge of life
By Marta Koblańska, January 24, 2025 Photo: Dmitriy, Pixabay Various civilizations approached differently to people who needed strong care differently due to their health status. Western civilization is claiming its supreme role in the gentle transition of humans to the end. Palliative care is a new branch of medicine and has not been implemented in…
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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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Is Poland violating human rights?
Written and published January 17/2025, By Marta Koblańska, Photo: Daniel Reche, Pixabay One of the top Polish psychiatric hospitals in Lodz, central Poland, unabled a parcel delivery to its patient, demanding an entry fee from the services provider. The parcel had been left, though in the Polish Post Office, just ten blocks from the…