Publications by authors named "M Bensasson"
Introduction: Millions of persons with chronic pain across North America and Europe use opioids. While the immunosuppressive properties of opioids are associated with risks of infections, these outcomes could be mitigated through careful patient selection and monitoring practices when appropriate. It is important to recognise that some patients do benefit from a carefully tailored opioid therapy.
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- * Recent studies have identified other mutations, like those in PIK3CA, which may also drive LCH independently from MAPK signaling, although their effects were not fully understood until now.
- * New research using a mouse model shows that PIK3CA mutations can contribute to LCH, and a patient's LCH with this mutation successfully responded to a targeted treatment (alpelisib), highlighting the potential for personalized therapies in treating histiocytic neoplasms.
Objectives: To assess consumption of dietary and herbal supplements (DHS) among patients in internal medicine departments and determine whether such use is documented in their medical files.
Methods: 267 patients from three internal medicine departments of an academic medical center in Haifa, Israel were assessed prospectively with questionnaires about their DHS use in the month preceding hospitalization. DHS were categorized into vitamins & minerals, herbal supplements and others.
Background: People engaged in masochistic behaviour (MB) seek to experience pain and the pleasure it evokes in sadomasochistic (S&M) sessions. The sensitivity and attitude to pain in these individuals has hardly been tested. We evaluated pain perception among these individuals and tested whether their experiences and attitudes towards pain are context-related.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe potential to incorporate silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) as biocides in membranes for water purification has gained much interest in recent years. However, a viable strategy for loading the Ag-NPs on the membrane remains challenging. This paper presents a novel, facile procedure for loading Ag-NPs on thin-film composite (TFC) reverse osmosis membranes.
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