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One-week training evaluation in hospital palliative care service for advanced nurses: a mixed method study Open
Enabling trainees to work with a specialist hospital palliative care team transfers knowledge relating to the goals of early palliative care and specialist palliative care skills. This study underscores the need for further studies to conf…
Improving Advanced Communication Skills Towards the Family System: A Scoping Review of Family Meeting Training in Oncology and Other Healthcare Settings Open
Background/Objectives: Family meetings (FMs) are clinical encounters in a structured space between the patient, family members, and care teams. Healthcare professionals (HPs) often lack formal training in conducting FMs. The scoping review…
One-week training evaluation in Hospital Palliative Care Service for Advanced Nurses: a mixed Method Study Open
Background The educational role of a specialist palliative care team is crucial for the growth of nursing students attending a second-level course in palliative care. To our knowledge, the literature on the impact evaluation of clinical tr…
Association between Immunosenescence, Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Frailty Syndrome in Older Adults Open
Aging is associated with changes in the immune system, increased inflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction. The relationship between these phenomena and the clinical phenotype of frailty is unclear. Here, we evaluated the immune phenotype…
Musculoskeletal Diseases Role in the Frailty Syndrome: A Case–Control Study Open
Frailty syndrome severely burdens older age, and musculoskeletal diseases are of paramount importance in its development. The aim of this study is to unravel the contribution of musculoskeletal diseases to frailty syndrome. This is a case–…
Vitamin D: Nutrient, Hormone, and Immunomodulator Open
The classical functions of vitamin D are to regulate calcium-phosphorus homeostasis and control bone metabolism. However, vitamin D deficiency has been reported in several chronic conditions associated with increased inflammation and dereg…
Vitamin D and immunomodulation in early rheumatoid arthritis: A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled study Open
The aim of this study was to evaluate differences in T helper cell sub-types and osteoclast (OCs) precursors in peripheral blood between patients affected by early rheumatoid arthritis (eRA) and healthy controls. The effect of administrati…
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Targeting Taxanes to Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer Cells by Nanobubbles and Extracorporeal Shock Waves Open
To target taxanes to castration-resistant prostate cancer cells, glycol-chitosan nanobubbles loaded with paclitaxel and docetaxel were constructed. The loaded nanobubbles were then combined with Extracorporeal Shock Waves, acoustic waves w…
Osteoimmunology: from mice to humans Open
The immune system has been recognized as one of the most important regulators of bone turnover and its deregulation is implicated in several bone diseases such as postmenopausal osteoporosis and inflammatory bone loss; recently it has been…