It omits several ‘mature’ features from the Brothers Grimm story, including the deaths of Snow White’s parents and the Evil Queen’s desire to eat her body parts. This is perhaps understandable, but Disney also attempted to transform the morals of the tale, which proves to be far more ...
One of the world's main causes of mortality is still cancer. In 2016, only in the United States, about 1.6 million newly diagnosed cases of cancer and roughly 500,000 cancer-related deaths were recorded [1,2]. Solid tumours that form in the tissues of the lung, breast, bronchus, rectu...
Quantitative estimates of preventable and treatable deaths from 36 cancers worldwide: a population-based study. Lancet Glob Heal. 2023;11(11):e1700–12. Article CAS Google Scholar McLendon R, Bigner D, Friedman A, Meir G, Van E, Mastrogianakis GM, Olson JJ, et al. Comprehensive ...
Chronic airway inflammatory and infectious respiratory diseases are the most common medical respiratory conditions, associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Vitamin D (1,25(OH)2D3) deficiency has been shown to be highly prevalent in patients with chronic airway inflammatory and infectious dise...
The Heterogeneity of Suicide Attempters: An Analysis of Single- and Repeat-Suicide Attempters Among People in Custody: Medically serious suicide attempts (MSSA) represent a subgroup of clinically heterogeneous suicidal behaviours very close to deaths by suicide. A simple de... BE Stoliker - SAGE Pu...
Colorectal cancer is a major public health issue, being the third most common cancer in men and the second in women. It is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths. Nanomedicine is an emerging field of interest, many of its aspects being linked to cancer research. Chemotherapy has a ...
Notably, in the past 28 days (July 1 to July 28, 2024), there were over 200,000 new cases, 27,000 new hospitalizations, and over 3300 deaths [7]. While COVID-19 primarily presents as a non-severe illness with favorable prognosis, patients with comorbidities tend to have poorer outcomes...
The WHO reported over 94 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 including 2 million deaths, globally as of 2021 [1]. It is caused by a novel virus from the family of Coronavirus (CoV). This same family of virus caused the previous outbreaks of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and ...
PC is a non-cutaneous cancer most commonly seen in males after 50 years of age, affecting nearly 1.6 million individuals with more than 3,00,000 deaths worldwide [3]. Reports showed that it is the second most commonly identified cancer in males and the fifth major cause of cancer-related...
Immunotherapy has emerged as a novel and effective treatment for oncology patients by activating the host immune system to eliminate cancer cells [1]. Particularly, therapies involving immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have shown remarkable and long-lasting clinical outcomes in some advanced carcinoma,...