Diversity in Medical Toxicology: Why This Is Important

Hormesis: why it is important to toxicology and toxicologists.

This article provides a comprehensive review of hormesis, a dose-response concept that is characterized by a low-dose stimulation and a high-dose inhibition. The article traces the historical foundations of hormesis, its quantitative features and mechanistic foundations, and its risk assessment implications. The article indicates that the hormetic dose response is the most fundamental dose resp...

Formalising Configuration Languages: Why is this Important in Practice?

Why philosophy is important to medical ethics.

Derek Parfit in his landmark Reasons and Persons asks us to imagine the following hypothetical case. You must have a very painful operation for which there is no anaesthesia. You will experience excruciating pain for several hours. But then you will be given a drug to induce amnesia. You will not remember any of the pain. You wake up in bed in hospital. Doctors come and say there has been a mis...

O10: Why Preschool Education Programs Is So Important

Neurological development is largely a result of the learning that takes place starting at birth and during the earliest years of life. Child Care and Preschool Education Programs are key to predicting ultimate success in school and life. Children who attend preschool or other early education programs have enhanced cognitive, verbal, and social development (which is maintained into the first few...

Physical activity and maximal aerobic capacity in breast cancer survivors--why this is important.

*Clinic for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Clinic for Emergency Internal Medicine, Clinic for Haemathology, Military Medical Academy, Belgrade, Serbia; Faculty of Medicine of the Military Medical Academy, University of Defence, Belgrade, Serbia; Institute for Oncology and Radiology of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia; Clinic for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation “dr M. Zotovi ”, Belgrade, Serbia