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Heart of reptiles is traditionally considered as an organ with two atria and one ventricle. However, this is not entirely true, in particular for crocodylians that have a fully divided, four-chambered heart as the one found in birds and mammals. Among squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) there is also one lizard group with extraordinary heart – monitor lizards (Varanidae).
(Prague, 18
January 2019) After last year’s successful charity concert organised to support
palliative care for children, student associations of the 1st
Faculty of Medicine have again decided to initiate a benefit event. This time,
they wanted to draw attention to senior citizens, who are an often overlooked
part of our society. They decided to raise funds for Život 90 (Life 90), a
non-profit organisation which has been offering a wide range of services to
seniors and their families with the aim of improving their quality of life for
the past 28 years. Since 1995, this organisation runs a community centre for
senior citizens and their families and friends in the centre of Prague, offers
information and advice, manages a help line, offers emergency, nursing, and
respite care, and operates a day care centre.
(Prague, 11 December 2018) Although the average life expectancy rises all over the world, large part of this increase consists of years spent in poor health. According to a World Health Organisation’s global study on the Global Burden of Disease, which describes how people are disabled by various diseases and measures disability-adjusted life years (DALY), current society is characterised by a wave of violence and epidemics of non-contagious diseases. Chief among these diseases are high blood pressure, smoking, high glycaemia, high body mass index, and neuropsychiatric diseases, especially depression. On a global scale, affective disorders (depressions, mania, bipolar disorder) form the third most frequent cause of disability.
(Prague, 12 November 2018) Scientists from the 1st Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University used the protein osteopontin to improve the diagnostics and enable less invasive testing of patients suffering from cirrhosis of the liver.