How Beauty is Dying

The dying child: how is care different?

Of children needing palliative care, less than half have a malignancy. Most families will elect to care for their child at home if this is offered as a realistic option. The often protracted and unpredictable nature of the many illness trajectories encountered in paediatric palliative care requires an approach that integrates palliative care with curative care. Children bring added dimensions t...

What is Beauty?

So what is beauty? First let me perhaps surprise you by stating that beauty can be defined numerically:1.6180339887. That is beauty that is the golden ratio (fig 1). It was described by the Pythagorean mathematicians, as they kept seeing this ratio in things regarded as beautiful, and it was first written down by Euclid, and can be expressed either as a linear relationship or as a shape, in eit...

Dying is a transition.

PURPOSE End-of-life care is designed as response to patients' verbally communicated needs. The concept of dying as a process would allow us to improve care. This concept may combine the needs of the dying, their outburst of emotions, gradual maturation, family processes, acute problems such as decreasing independence, with their inner experience and transformation of perception. In this study w...

How is the Mother Tongue Acquired

Platelet Refractoriness and how it is formed

Abstract Background and Objectives Transfusion of platelet has become one of the main treatments for thrombocytopenic patients to reduce the severity and frequency of bleeding consequences. Failure to attain the desired level of platelets in a patient following platelet transfusion is defined as platelet refractoriness. The purpose of present paper is to review and study the mechanisms involve...