Reflecting identities: using portraiture with people suffering from life threatening illnesses

Psilocybin for depression and anxiety associated with life-threatening illnesses.

Informed consent: A study of patients with life-threatening illnesses.

BACKGROUND The relationship between healthcare professionals and patients in the Spanish health sector has undergone dramatic change. One aspect of this is that the use of informed consent has become a key factor in the delivery of adequate healthcare. But although a certain period of time has already passed since informed consent started to be used, in Spain there is still doubt about how adeq...

Obesity surgery data show success in tackling life threatening illnesses.

Clinicians are calling for greater investment in bariatric surgery after a new report shows that such surgery has significant and varied health benefits for patients in the United Kingdom. The report claims to show for the first time on a nationwide scale the positive effects of bariatric surgery in treating a range of life threatening diseases, including an 85% reduction in the number of patie...

The attitudes of Polish psychiatrists toward people suffering from mental illnesses

[New role of people suffering from mental illnesses in treatment and recovery].

In many countries there is a growing awareness of the significance of mutual help among patients suffering from mental illnesses. Such acts provide benefits in terms of a sense of greater activity, self-dependance, it empowers and restores the feeling of influence over one's own and the other's fate. It is a path facilitating the process of recovery. In the last twenty years, the new role of pa...