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OBJECTIVE: To estimate the utilization patterns of cancer prevention programs in women during the period 2000-2012 in Mexican women who participated in three national surveys. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We analyzed data from the ENSA 2000, ENSANUT 2006 and ENSANUT 2012 that are representative of the Mexican population. Pr…

Impact of wastewater irrigation on some biological properties was studied in an area where treated sewage water is being supplied to the farmers since 1979 in the western part of National Capital Territory of New Delhi under Keshopur Effluent Irrigation Scheme. Three fields were selected which had been receiving irriga…

Infection and refractoriness to platelet transfusion, as complications in hematopoietic malignancy therapy, were investigated. The Hanshin Study Group of Hematopoietic Disorders and Infection treated with 3,346 cases of bacterial infection (7.8% sepsis, 71% sepsis suspected, 13.7% respiratory infection) during the past…

Of 1647 women in confinement (mean age 26years) and 185 students nurses (mean age 18 years), the majority wanted two children. 8% of the women in confinement and 2% of the student nurses had received no previous family planning information, whereas 38% of the women in confinement and 81% of the student nurses had pract…

BACKGROUND: Stepping over an obstacle is a kind of compound movement that makes walking more difficult, especially for preschool children. This study examines sex and age-level differences in walking time in preschool children on an obstacle frame. METHODS: The participants included 324 healthy preschool children: fou…

INTRODUCTION: The need of current data on the epidemiology of caries of the primary teeth in 3- and 8-year-old children and establishing the trends in the prevalence of this disease in the last 18 years in Plovdiv determines the aim of the study. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study includes 1124 children--536 girls and 58…

Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus as a typical arbovirus relies on two types of hosts for its survival: ticks act both as virus vectors and reservoir hosts, and vertebrates amplify the virus infection by acting as a source of infection for feeding ticks. Longitudinal monitoring of TBE virus in ticks and vertebrate ho…

206 patients with spina bifida were followed up during the last 20 years; they were examined from the pediatric, neurosurgical, urological and orthopedic point of view. Evaluation of the intellectual development was also performed. Most of the 92 children of the first group were born after Lorber in 1971 proposed a sel…

Although new treatments have been widely studied to improve the survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer (BC), prognosis continues to be poor with an average survival time no longer than 3 years. We carried on a population-based study with the purpose of evaluating the outcome of metastatic breast cancer in t…

OBJECTIVES: To determine whether subjects older than 75 years are included in the randomized controlled trials of antiparkinsonian medications conducted during the last 30 years and to identify study characteristics that are associated with the exclusion of patients of advanced age. METHODS: A systematic search was co…

OBJECTIVE: To observe the influence on adjacent lumbar bone density after strengthening of T12, L1 segment vertebral osteoporotic compression fracture by percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) and percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) in postmenopausal female. METHODS: Between January 2008 and June 2011, 59 patients with T12, L1…

BACKGROUND: Assessment drives learning. Written assessment of many universities lacks uniformity and validation. Subjectivity influences assessment. Blueprinting has been used as content validity tools. METHODS: In this study, last 5-year's Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) second year MBBS papers in Mi…

Figures compiled by the Bureau of Research and Planning show that the California Physician Fee Index increased 3.0 percent in the last six months of 1969, compared with 2.5 percent in the first six months. Nationally, physicians' fees increased at a slightly slower rate-2.9 percent during the last half of the year, acc…

Although certain risk factors for breast cancer incidence may also effect survival, findings have been inconsistent and the long-term role of childbirth is unknown. We studied the influence of number and timing of births on breast cancer prognosis prospectively. From 1958 to 1997, altogether 32,003 women, born 1932 or…

The argon laser is a useful instrument that, during the last 5 years, has become a widely accepted and available tool in cutaneous surgery. Its primary use is in the treatment of various cutaneous lesions, although it also produces very satisfactory results when applied to professional decorative tattoos. These procedu…

An academic family physician reflects on 30 years of night call on the very last night of call. The experiences of the drive to the hospital, interactions with resident physicians, and caring for patients through the "neglected hours of the day" blend together in the narratives of patients. Night call is an essential a…

Several reports indicate an ongoing increase in the incidence, prevalence and severity of atopic diseases both in industrialized and developing countries. This prevalence is steadily increasing mainly in the last 20 years. Babies of atopic parents are particularly prone to develop atopic diseases, and for this reason t…

OBJECTIVES: The study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of cervical cancer prophylactics by identification of the time of last cervical cytological examination as well as by recognition of frequency of repeated cervical cytological examinations and reimbursement for the examination costs in representative samp…

OBJECTIVE: This study investigated whether patients who remain symptomatic more than a year following idiopathic facial paralysis gain benefit from tailored facial physiotherapy. METHODS: A two-year retrospective review was conducted of all symptomatic patients. Data collected included: age, gender, duration of sympto…

AIM: Few studies have examined the role of physiological characteristics of soccer teams in the finishing position in the league. The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether there are differences in anthropometric characteristics, endurance, isokinetic peak torque, vertical jump height among professiona…