The question, how and when an individual decision for and end of medical treatment or abdication of therapy should be made remains difficult. Ethical considerations have to be taken into account with respect to a humane and dignified decease. The goal of ...

As compared to the general population schizophrenic patients are at increased risk of becoming delinquent. The majority of schizophrenic patients do not commit any crime, and the risk of the general population to be a target of a violent act by a person ...

There is no personalized anticancer treatment without individualized dosing. Clearly, BSA-based chemotherapy dosing does not improve the substantial pharmacokinetic variability of individual drugs. Similarly, the new oral kinase inhibitors and endocrine ...

Here we report the case of a 19-year-old somalian man who has been admitted to our emergency department because of an important lumbago without trauma. The physical examination on arrival showed a diffuse painful percussion of the left paraspinal muscles ...