Search results for "medicina legal"
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Tráfico de pornografía infantil: dinámica, roles y prevención
2012
Internet se ha convertido en uno de los principales canales mundiales de comunicación e información, ofreciendo una gran cantidad de posibilidades de acción y colaboración entre sus usuarios los miles de millones de usuarios actuales. Pero Internet también ha generado una cibercriminalidad, entre la que se encuentra el tráfico de pornografía infantil. En este artículo se aborda las características de esta criminalidad, las condiciones especiales que proporcionan Internet y el carácter transnacional del fenómeno. Aunque este tipo de delitos concentra acciones individuales, su comprensión resulta más completa si se aborda desde el ámbito del crimen organizado. Se presenta las características …
¿Se puede (o debe) pantentar genes?
2013
Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Citrus bergamia Derivatives: Where Do We Stand?
2016
Inflammatory diseases affect a large portion of the worldwide population, and chronic inflammation is a major risk factor for several dangerous pathologies. To limit the side effects of both synthetic and biological anti-inflammatory drugs, the use of herbal medicines, nutraceuticals and food supplements has increased tremendously as alternative and/or complementary medicine to treat several pathologies, including inflammation. During the last decades, the biological properties of Citrus bergamia (bergamot) derivatives have obtained important scientific achievements, and it has been suggested their use in a context of a multitarget pharmacological strategy. Here, we present an overview of t…
Molecular autopsy in sudden cardiac death and genetic screen in arrhythmogenic cardiac syndromes.
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is one of the most important mode of death in Western Countries and remains a major public health problems; is responsible for half of all deaths due to cardiovascular disease. New methods of preventing potentially fatal arrhythmias have been developed, and the accurate diagnosis of the causes of Sudden Cardiac Death is now of particular importance. In recent years researchers have identified the genetic background of many diseases involving the myocardium, and many Cardiomyopathies are considered to have a genetic origin. Specialized myocytes of the cardiac conduction system are essential to coordinate sequential contraction of cardiac atria and ventricles. Anoma…
Cervical necrotizing fasciitis and descending necrotizing mediastinitis in a patient affected by neglected peritonsillar abscess: a case of medical n…
2007
Abstract We report a case of fatal cervical necrotizing fasciitis (CNF) and descending necrotizing mediastinitis (DNM) due to primary peritonsillar abscess in 60-year-old male patient with no history or evidence of immunocompromising disorders. The patient was treated with antibiotic and corticosteroid drugs but he developed mediastinitis and septic shock and died of multiple organ failure six days later from recovery in hospital. After a clinical, diagnostic and therapeutical consideration of the cervical necrotizing fasciitis and some related risks of a delayed diagnosis and treatment, the authors analysed the clinical history of the patient and of the medical conduct pointing out profess…
A special case of murder committed by pitchfork
2011
The autors describe a murder case, happened in a rural environment, done with an agricultural instrument with "four peak". The use of agricultural instruments to commit a murder, frequent in the past, nowadays is unusual if not in a rural environment.
La parasitología entre las ciencias forenses
2012
Suicidio complejo no planificado: reportaje de tres casos inusuales
2013
Torture and Maltreatment in Prison: A Medico-Legal Perspective
2023
The maltreatment and torture of prisoners constitute a global problem. Methods of maltreatment are classified as the psychological and the physical, and physical methods inevitably lead to psychological sequelae. Our review offers an analysis from the medico-legal perspective of the literature on the torture and physical and sexual abuse experienced by prisoners and their psychological sequelae and aims to investigate the medico-legal issues of investigating maltreatment in prison so as to suggest methodologies and updated approaches for dealing with such cases in a forensic context. We performed a comprehensive literature search of peer-reviewed publications (articles and reviews), researc…