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Dilemmas for guardians of advanced dementia patients regarding tube feeding

By: Gil E., Agmon M., Hirsch A., Ziv M., Zisberg A.
Published in: Age and Ageing
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Background: advanced dementia is an incurable illness, its last stage marked by inability to eat. Tube feeding was deeme (more…)

In response: Aviram J et al the perils of overestimating the efficacy of cannabis-based medicines for chronic pain management

By: Aviram J., Samuelly-Leichtag G.
Published in: Pain Physician
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
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IVIg for apparently autoimmune small-fiber polyneuropathy: First analysis of efficacy and safety

By: Liu X., Treister R., Lang M., Oaklander A.L.
Published in: Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Objectives: Small-fiber polyneuropathy (SFPN) has various underlying causes, including associations with systemic autoim (more…)

Risk factors for lethal outcome in patients with pemphigus: a retrospective cohort study

By: Kridin K., Zelber-Sagi S., Bergman R.
Published in: European Journal of Dermatology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Background: Although pemphigus is associated with increased mortality, little is known regarding factors that influence (more…)

Application of iron oxide nanoparticles in contemporary experimental physiology and cell biology research

By: Nikolovski D., Jeremic M., Paunovic J., Vucevic D., Radosavljevic T., Radojevi-Škodri S., Rakocevic R., Nesic D., Pantic I.
Published in: Reviews on Advanced Materials Science
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Recent findings have suggested that iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) have some exceptional chemical characteristics whic (more…)

The role of informal digital surveillance systems before, during and after infectious disease outbreaks: A critical analysis

By: Magid A., Gesser-Edelsburg A., Green M.S.
Published in: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Background One of the main limitations of traditional surveillance systems for disease detection is their inability to d (more…)

Specialized pain clinics in primary care: Common diagnoses, referral patterns and clinical outcomes – Novel pain management model

By: Fogelman Y., Carmeli E., Minerbi A., Harash B., Vulfsons S.
Published in: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: An estimated 19% of the adult population in western countries lives with chronic pain. Pain management lies mainly withi (more…)

The effects of craving on implicit cognitive mechanisms involved in risk behavior: can dialectical behavior therapy in therapeutic communities make a difference? A pilot study

By: Rabinovitz S., Nagar M.
Published in: Therapeutic Communities
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Law  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine pre- to post-change in two components of implicit cognitive functioning (more…)

Professionals’ Awareness of Sexual Abuse in Late Life: An Exploratory Survey

By: Alon S., Tuma N., Band-Winterstein T., Goldblatt H.
Published in: Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: BACKGROUND: The sexual abuse phenomenon is considered taboo. It has been discussed, to date, mainly in relation to child (more…)

Paternal use of antidepressants and offspring outcomes in Sweden: Nationwide prospective cohort study

By: Viktorin A., Levine S.Z., Altemus M., Reichenberg A., Sandin S.
Published in: BMJ (Online)
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Objective: To examine the association between paternal antidepressant use at conception and offspring preterm birth, mal (more…)

Two-year follow-up of fall prediction among older adults in an independent-living community

By: Zur O., Berner Y., Ohel Y., Carmeli E.
Published in: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Adults over the age of 70 are at risk of falls. Early detection of risk of falls can suggest early interventions. In thi (more…)

“Eating Me Up from Inside”: A Pilot Study of Mentalization of Self and Others and Emotion Regulation Strategies among Young Women with Eating Disorders

By: Rothschild-Yakar L., Peled M., Enoch-Levy A., Gur E., Stein D.
Published in: Israel Journal of Psychiatry
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Background: We examined the relationship between general ability of mentalization, the specific aspect of affective ment (more…)

The relationship between disordered eating pathology, sense of coherence and body image among adolescent boys in Israel

By: Latzer Y., Tzischinsky O., Spivak-Lavi Z., Chen I., Weinberger-Litman S.
Published in: Israel Journal of Psychiatry
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Background: Disordered eating pathology (DEP) and body dissatisfaction are well-documented risk factors for eating disor (more…)

Oxytocin and animal models for autism spectrum disorder

By: Wagner S., Harony-Nicolas H.
Published in: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a group of complex neurodevelopmental conditions characterized by deficits in social c (more…)

Profiles of little-known medicinal polypores: Funalia trogii (Agaricomycetes)

By: Zmitrovich I.V., Bondartseva M.A., Arefyev S.P., Ezhov O.N., Wasser S.P.
Published in: International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: The purpose of this study was to comprehensively characterize little-known polypores that have recently been found to po (more…)

Perspective on broad-acting clinical physiological effects of photobiomodulation

By: Shanks S., Leisman G.
Published in: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Research into photobiomodulation reveals beneficial effects of light therapy for a rapidly expanding list of medical con (more…)

Food selectivity, gastrointestinal symptoms and urine organic acids in autism spectrum disorder: A pilot study

By: Vissoker R.E., Berger D., Latzer Y., Gal E.
Published in: Current Nutrition and Food Science
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Background: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized by numerous comorbidities including eating problems, the mos (more…)

Very high frequency oscillations of heart rate variability in healthy humans and in patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy

By: Estévez-Báez M., Machado C., Montes-Brown J., Jas-García J., Leisman G., Schiavi A., Machado-García A., Carricarte-Naranjo C., Carmeli E.
Published in: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Literature reports on the very high frequency (VHF) range of 0.4–0.9 Hz in heart rate variability (HRV) are scanty. The (more…)

Improvement in hand trajectory of reaching movements by error-augmentation

By: Israely S., Leisman G., Carmeli E.
Published in: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether adaptive responses to error-augmentation force fields, would decrea (more…)

Physicians’ experiences, attitudes and challenges in a Pediatric Telemedicine Service

By: Haimi M., Brammli-Greenberg S., Waisman Y., Baron-Epel O.
Published in: Pediatric Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Background: Telemedicine in general, and telephone triage, in particular, is considered a high-stress clinical activity (more…)