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In order to define priorities for improvement of the Occupational Hygiene Service, Institute for Occupational Health, Tel Aviv University, consumer satisfaction was evaluated by postal questionnaire. The questionnaire covered items on service accessibility and quality, including staff courtesy and respect for the consu…

UNLABELLED: Lung transplantation is deemed to be the only effective therapy that improves survival for patients with end stage lung disease. The aim of our study was to examine the progress achieved over the last two decades and to demonstrate the effectiveness and safety of this treatment. METHODS: A retrospective an…

IMPORTANCE: American Indian adolescents attending schools on or near reservations are historically at high risk for substance use. OBJECTIVE: To compare rates of substance use among reservation-based American Indian adolescents vs rates among national US youths. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Population-based sur…

BACKGROUND: Pain clinics provide interdisciplinary therapy to treat chronic pain patients and to increase the return-to-work rate. In recent years and due to increased economic pressure in health care, a change in the management of pain in Austrian health care centers has been observed. For the analysis of the current…

AIM: This cross-sectional analysis investigates how neuromotor functions of two independent cohorts of approximately 45- and 65-year-old individuals are different from 18-year-old adolescents using the Zurich Neuromotor Assessment-2 (ZNA-2). METHODS: A total of 186 individuals of the Zurich Longitudinal Studies (ZLS)…

CONTEXT: Migrant workers constitute an important risk group for Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome transmission in India. Alcohol consumption before sexual intercourse has been postulated to influence condom use practices. This study aimed to assess this association with regard to non-spou…

OBJECTIVE: To examine trends in female author representation within original otolaryngology research between 2000 and 2015. METHODS: Original research articles published in 11 otolaryngology journals were analyzed for 2000, 2003, 2006, 2009, 2012, and 2015. The genders of the first and last authors for each article we…

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Children and adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP) often experience associated functional limitations, diseases, or impairments. Included in these associated concerns are mental health symptoms/disorders and academic concerns. There has been an increasing research focus on the mental health of you…

There are significant racial and ethnic disparities in the incidence and survival of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Understanding the discrepancies in enrollment in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is important for better informing access to care and clinical trial conduct. We systematically reviewed th…

Over the previous decades, twinning rates worldwide have increased remarkably. This study aimed to describe changes in multiple birth rates and related demographic characteristics, such as maternal age and the level of education of parents in South Korea from 1981 to 2019. This study analyzed birth data obtained from t…

This study was conducted to investigate marriage and fertility in long-term survivors with high-grade bone and soft tissue tumors following chemotherapy. We reviewed issues related to fertility in 47 patients (24 men and 23 women) who had survived for >5 years. The median age at diagnosis was 18.0±8.9 years and th…

PURPOSE. To submit the short and long term results of long-gap esophageal atresia (EA) with two surgical techniques. METHODS. We carried out a retrospective study of long-gap type EA without fistula (n=8) and with fistula (n=2) over the last 18 years, comparing the outcome of the Schärli technique (1992) with that…

INTRODUCTION: The social, medical and demographic changes of our population and the increase in the number of patients on waiting lists have led to some changes in the selection criteria of organ donors. MATERIAL AND METHOD: A retrospective, descriptive and comparative study of the liver cadaveric donors features acce…

During the past ten years, 145 patients (130 with ulcerative colitis and 15 with polyposis) have undergone colectomy and endorectal ileal pull-through operations at the UCLA Medical Center. The mean age of the patients at operation was 22.4 years (a range of seven to 56 years). All of the patients had a two stage opera…

Understanding the change in intention for influenza vaccine among health-care workers (HCWs) is important to increase influenza vaccination uptake. We aimed to investigate the psychosocial beliefs associated with a change in the intention for influenza vaccine. An anonymous cross-sectional survey was distributed to ter…

OBJECTIVES: The aim was to determine whether an intergenerational trend toward increased stature is slowing down, and whether body weight has recently increased among young men in Poland, as it has in Western European countries. METHODS: Data were taken from six national surveys of 19-year-old Polish male conscripts f…

PURPOSE: The aim of this retrospective clinical study is to evaluate the effect of growing rod lengthening technique on sagittal balance in relationship with the spinopelvic parameters, in early onset scoliosis (EOS). METHODS: Twenty-three patients (18 female, 5 male), with a mean age of 8.3 years during the operation…

BACKGROUND: Oesophago-gastric cancers have had sharply different and changing incidence patterns depending on subsite and histology, but incidence data for the last few years are missing. We aimed to provide updated incidence trends of oesophago-gastric tumours by subsite and histology in Sweden. MATERIAL AND METHODS:…

Cryogelation is a powerful technique for producing macroporous hydrogels called cryogels. Although cryogelation reactions and cryogels were discovered more than 70 years ago, they attracted significant interest only in the last 20 years mainly due to their extraordinary properties compared to the classical hydrogels su…

BACKGROUND: This study was undertaken to examine whether acupuncture treatment may have a long-term effect on smoking cessation or reduction. METHODS: Altogether 46 healthy men and women who reported smoking 20 +/- 6 cigarettes per day (mean +/- SD) volunteered in the study. They were randomly assigned to a test group…