Caries Progression: How Can We Control this Disease?

How can we enhance the value of laboratory tests?

Today, the pressures on the healthcare systems for the controlling of the costs are extreme and all sectors try to demonstrate the value of their services by justifying the activities and expenditures so the value can be describe in terms like quality, efficiency, effectiveness, patient satisfaction, cost effectiveness .The value of the lab testing is generally directed to their costs and the c...

Neuroplasticity and Healthy Lifestyle: How Can We Understand This Relationship?

Dental caries: strategies to control this preventable disease.

OBJECTIVE To provide a brief commentary review of strategies to control dental caries. Dental decay is one of man's most prevalent diseases. In many counties, severity increased in parallel with importation of sugar, reaching its zenith about 1950s and 1960s. Since then, severity has declined in many countries, due to the wide use of fluoride especially in toothpaste, but dental caries remains ...

Gastric Cancer: How Can We Reduce the Incidence of this Disease?

Gastric cancer remains a prevalent disease worldwide with a poor prognosis. Helicobacter pylori plays a major role in gastric carcinogenesis. H. pylori colonization leads to chronic gastritis, which predisposes to atrophic gastritis, intestinal metaplasia, dysplasia, and eventually gastric cancer. Screening, treatment, and prevention of H. pylori colonization can reduce the incidence of gastric...

Cancer symptom control trials: how may we advance this field?

Richard J. Ablin, PhD, Research Professor of Immunobiology, University of Arizona College of Medicine and the Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A., and Phil Gold, PhD MD, Professor of Medicine, Physiology, and Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Section Editors. Canadian Institutes of Health: Research definition of palliative care: Palliative care aims to improve th...