Multimodal feedback control can lead to self-organizing morphogenesis
Vittorio Cristini and John Lowengrub presents insight into the self-organizing morphogenesis and how it can be instigated by multimodal feedback control.
Huaming Yan1,5, Sameeran Kunche2,5,...
From tactics to practice: Pfalzklinikum updates its strategy work
A health and welfare institution’s unique features are no longer sufficient to grant its future success. Pfalzklinikum, service provider for mental health, has analysed...
Development of integrated non-invasive methods for cancer diagnosis and treatment
Zhihui Wang1, Subrata Sen2, and Vittorio Cristini1
1Center for Precision Biomedicine, Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston...
Pfalzklinikum fur Psychiatrie und Neurologie Ador – Mental health on the doorstep
Pfalzklinikum offers more decentralised services for children and adolescents.
Improving the mental health care on the spot, right where people live, work and spend their...
Pfalzklinikum fur Psychiatrie und Neurologie Ador – Financing, Participation, Berlin and the Palatinate
A critical look back on 2016’s policy developments.
Largely unnoticed by the general public, two important federal laws were negotiated in Germany in the last...
Implementing a community-driven environment and health surveillance program with Inuit in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut
For Inuit across the Canadian North, notions of good wellbeing are multi-faceted – including physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions – and are...
SIforAGE: Envisioning the new world for older people
SIforAGE is an European project of the VII Framework Programme, (Science-in-Society 2012-2016) which aims at promoting Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) in society by...
Pfalzklinikum fur Psychiatrie und Neurologie Ador – Experts by experience
Intermediates between patients and therapists
“Do you know what it’s like to hear voices, to have fear of death out of a sudden or to...
Projects by the Initiative ‘The Palatinate makes itself/you strong – ways to resilience’
The Palatinate makes itself/you strong – ways to resilience’ initiative was founded by Pfalzklinikum for psychiatry and neurology in the Palatinate, in Southwest Germany....
Health and social care services to living rooms
Eksote discusses Health and social care services for an ageing population...
Eksote’s new models of mobile care and integrated service system.
The ER in Your Livingroom...
Health Care: Using lean to transform a hospital into a rehabilitation centre
South Karelia Social and Health Care District (Eksote) provides publicly funded social and health care to 133 000 citizens of South Karelia in South-Eastern...
Intravenous Access
Obtaining vascular access is a critical first step in resuscitation and initiating treatment to patients presenting to the Emergency Department (ED). Patients may have...
A Public Health Approach to Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines child maltreatment as, “… the abuse and neglect that occurs to children under 18 years of age. It...
Development of integrated non-invasive methods for cancer diagnosis and treatment
Stuart J. Corr1,2,3, Steven Curley1,4, Zhihui Wang5,6, and Vittorio Cristini5,6
1Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
2Department...
Pfalzklinikum and the Alliance against Depression Landau-Südliche Weinstraße e.V.: Challenges in 2016
The targets of the Alliance’s work are information on depression and its treatment possibilities, destigmatization as well as information on concrete contact points and...
Peer work in mental health – The major break-through of obstinacy?
Now we see it happen again: an apparently new term appears in the sky of psychiatry: "peer work". It means that now ill people...
Gynaecological cancers –prevention and early detection
Murat Gultekin, Vice-President of the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology (ESGO) highlights the importance of early detection of gynaecological cancers for prevention
According to World...
Connecting the dots between physical and mental health
Ophelie Martin, Communications Officer at Mental Health Europe shares insights on the link between physical and mental health, illustrating facts with her own personal...
Citizens with mental illness are helped by tele-rehabilitation using video technologies
Citizens with mental disorder face a number of challenges returning to everyday life following discharge from psychiatric hospital. The citizens often feel insecure, anxious,...
Research opportunities in Acute Medicine
Dinesen L1, 2, Poots AJ1, Bell D1, 2. 1.NIHR CLAHRC NW London, Imperial College London 2.Dept. Acute Medicine, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
What is Acute...