https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/12466 2026-04-23T03:33:35Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/14128 Title: Detecting breast cancer : advanced and new technologies Authors: Vassallo, Pierre Abstract: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. This has consequently generated considerable interest in the literature with the result that Breast Cancer Screening Programs have become available in most developed countries. The aim of these screening programs is to achieve early detection of breast cancer in women who have not yet developed any symptoms. Such early detection allows early treatment, which is necessary to achieve a good treatment outcome. Treatment of early cancer results in cure in 98% of cases, while late cancer detection results in a poor outcome. Early breast cancer detection depends on the accuracy of the equipment used and on training and experience of the specialists involved. Equipment accuracy and consequently image quality play a very important role since specialist training and experience cannot compensate for poor image quality. New technologies are contributing to improved image quality and also to new parameters that help distinguish benign from malignant disease. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/14126 Title: The cholesterol controversy : the series Authors: Cilia Vincenti, Vincenti Abstract: Simultaneous with reorientation of nutritional conventional wisdom away from fat as a dietary evil and increased acceptance that refined carbohydrate is the real culprit for atherosclerosis, obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome, a third factor has, these last 15 years or so, solidified the evidence behind the idea that a higher fat diet may be healthier. This factor is the new science of predicting coronary artery disease, which turned everything we originally believed in about cholesterol, atherosclerosis and diet, on its head. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/14123 Title: Doctor preneur Authors: Azzopardi, Marika; Muscat, Josie Abstract: Dr Josie Muscat is the founder and chairman of the St James Hospital group which was founded in 1984. The 72 year-old entrepreneur speaks to Marika Azzopardi about his motivations, aspirations and thoughts about reaching 82 years 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/14116 Title: The Synapse : the medical professionals' network : volume 14 : issue 5 Editors: Galea, Wilfred; Ellul, Ian C. Abstract: Apart from the normal articles regarding medicine, this issue contains also the following: The Synapse eLearning Videos; Editor’s pick for bookworms; Heard in the Grapevine - swabbing of newborns with vaginas effluvia and smelling tuberculosis 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z