With their dying breath

With their dying breath

ristina Hidalgo Carcedo, Alberto Luini, Daniela Corda, and colleagues (Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, Santa Maria Imbaro, Italy) suggest that Golgi membranes are chopped up by a protein called BARS before mitosis can occur. Their cell culture studies contrast, however, with results from genetic knock-out experiments. BARS is closely related to the CtBP family of transcriptional repressors needed fo...

Communicating with dying people and their relatives

Sir-In a study of constitutional restriction fragment length polymorphisms at the HRAS1 locus in patients with small cell (SCLC) and non-small cell cancer (NSCLC) of the lung and in a control group we reported earlier differences in the distribution of the common alleles between these three groups (Heighway et al., 1986). The main difference was a relative increase of the number of individuals ...

Hospice nurses’ emotional challenges in their encounters with the dying

The purpose of this study was to explore nurses' emotional challenges when caring for the dying in hospices. The study has a qualitative design, and knowledge was developed through a dialectical exchange between theory and data. Ten individual in-depth interviews were conducted with nurses recruited from two hospices in Denmark. Although all of the nurses said that they experienced emotional ch...

Dying with dignity.

Communicating with the dying.

Non-verbal signals are very subtle: they are socially learnt and can be as confusing to a foreigner as an unknown language. We watch a person's face and observe slight changes of expression in the eyes or mouth. We note the making or evasion of eye contact and whether the movement is natural or forced. We unconsciously see the embarrassed wave of a hand and hear a change in the timbre of the vo...