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Comparison of the health care systems in Canada and the United States – Health care outcomes

In the World Health Organization’s rankings of health care system performance among 191 member nations published in 2000, Canada ranked 30th and the U.S. 37th, while the overall health of Canadians was ranked 35th and Americans 72nd. However, the WHO’s methodologies, which attempted to measure how efficiently health systems translate expenditure into health, generated broad [...]

New Harbinger Publications – Specialties

Professional Books New Harbinger is a leading publisher in the area of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). It has published 26 ACT titles, including several by Hayes, who co-founded ACT and is one of its leading theorists . New Harbinger also publishes a number of books that use the psychological concentrations of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy [...]

University of California, San Francisco – Academics

University of California, San Francisco is unique in that it performs only biomedical and patient-centered research in its Schools of Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, and Dentistry, and the Graduate Division, and their hundreds of associated laboratories. The university is known for innovation in medical research, public service, and patient care. UCSF’s faculty includes four Nobel Prize [...]

Immune system – Tumor immunology

Another important role of the immune system is to identify and eliminate tumors. The ”transformed cells” of tumors express antigens that are not found on normal cells. To the immune system, these antigens appear foreign, and their presence causes immune cells to attack the transformed tumor cells. The antigens expressed by tumors have several sources; [...]

Cancer immunoprevention – Introduction

Cancer immunoprevention is the prevention of cancer onset with immunological means such as vaccines, immunostimulators or antibodies. Cancer immunoprevention is conceptually different from cancer immunotherapy, which aims at stimulating immunity in patients only after tumor onset, however the same immunological means can be used both in immunoprevention and in immunotherapy. Adapted from the Wikipedia article [...]

Redox therapy – Introduction

Redox therapy is an unproven form of alternative medicine that aims to treat cancer with redox agents, usually given through the diet. This form of treatment involves the use of high doses of antioxidant chemicals, especially vitamin C (as nutritional ascorbic acid or more usually intravenous sodium ascorbate), but also lipoic acid, vitamin K3 and [...]

Inflammation – Systemic effects

An infectious organism can escape the confines of the immediate tissue via the circulatory system or lymphatic system, where it may spread to other parts of the body. If an organism is not contained by the actions of acute inflammation it may gain access to the lymphatic system via nearby lymph vessels. An infection of [...]

Epidemiology of cancer – Introduction

epidemiology of cancer is the study of the factors affecting cancer, as a way to infer possible trends and causes. The study of cancer epidemiology uses epidemiological methods to find the cause of cancer and to identify and develop improved treatments. This area of study must contend with problems of lead time bias and length [...]

Candidiasis – Introduction

Candidiasis or thrush is a fungal infection (mycosis) of any of the ”Candida” species (all yeasts), of which ”Candida albicans” is the most common. Also commonly referred to as a yeast infection, candidiasis is also technically known as candidosis, moniliasis, and oidiomycosis. Candidiasis encompasses infections that range from superficial, such as oral thrush and vaginitis, [...]

The Skin Cancer Foundation – Introduction

The Skin Cancer Foundation (SCF), founded in 1979 by dermatologist and Mohs surgeon Perry Robins, MD, is an international organization devoted to the prevention, detection, and treatment of skin cancer. The Foundation is headquartered in New York City and is a 501(c)(3) public charity. The world’s most common cancer, skin cancer affects two million people [...]









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