97,285 papers found

Most long-term studies of the efficacy and safety profile of botulinum toxin (BoNT) in the treatment of dystonia are limited by lack of objective assessments, relatively small sample size, or short follow-up periods. We present one of the longest follow-up studies of BoNT treatment. This is a retrospective, longitudina…

BACKGROUND: We analyse unprotected anal intercourses (UAI) self-reported by a sample of men who have sex with men (MSM), by their future testing intentions and past testing history to identify undertested subpopulations that could be contributing to onward transmission. METHODS: We recruited MSM through gay dating web…

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of soft-tissue release on hip subluxation and dislocation in cerebral palsy as well as activities of daily living after surgery.Soft-tissue release was performed in 13 patients (19 hips) with cerebral palsy. Of them, 10 had spastic quadriplegia and three had spastic dipleg…

To examine the characteristics of male breast cancer in Japan, time trends and geographical distribution of the mortality of male breast cancer were analyzed by using " Vital Statistics " over the last four decades, compared with female breast cancer mortality. The male to female sex ratio of the number of deaths from…

OBJECTIVE: Respiratory diseases present a challenge for the healthcare system due to their prevalence and clinical impact. The aim of this study was to explore the current situation of hospital pharmacy in the field of respiratory diseases. METHOD: Observational, cross-sectional study, with a national scope, divided i…

OBJECTIVES: To examine the pattern of attendance at sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics in Britain. To compare the demographic characteristics, behaviours and attitudes of STD clinic attenders with those of non-attenders, and to assess the extent to which STD clinics are used by those with high-risk sexual lifes…

BACKGROUND: There is an apparent increase in pediatric sports and recreation (SR)-related injuries in the United States in the last decade. The aim of this study was to compare injuries in 2000 to injuries sustained in 2005 and 2010 to determine the trend in 8 most common pediatric SR-related injuries in the United Sta…

PURPOSE: To assess utilization of eye care services in an older Australian population. METHODS: The Blue Mountains Eye Study examined 3654 permanent residents aged 49 years or older from two New South Wales postcode areas. At interview, we collected information about past attendance to eye care practitioners, demograp…

PURPOSE: To identify changing indications for keratoplasty over the last 20 years at a tertiary care eye hospital in a country with rapidly evolving ophthalmic care services. METHODS: A retrospective review was performed of the eye bank records of every patient who received a lamellar or penetrating keratoplasty at th…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the long-term efficacy and influencing factors of cervical artificial disc replacement (CADR) for patients with cervical spondylotic radiculopathy (CSR). METHODS: The data of 29 CSR patients who underwent Bryan artificial disc replacement between December 2003 and December 2007 and followed up m…

UNLABELLED: The aim of the study was to explore whether diagnosis and managing children with progressive myoclonus epilepsy (PME) were improved during the last decade. METHODS: The retrospective study included children with PME treated in the Institute during the last 25 years. Investigation time was divided in…

MOTIVATION: In order to understand how species evolutionarily responded to Plio-Pleistocene climate oscillations (e.g. in terms of speciation, extinction, migration and adaptation), it is first important to have a good understanding of those past climate changes per se. This, however, is currently limited due to the la…

The relationship between oral contraceptives (OC) and breast-cancer risk was analysed using data from a case-control study conducted between June 1991 and February 1994 in 6 Italian centres on 1,991 patients below age 65 with histologically confirmed incident breast cancer and 1,899 controls admitted to hospital for a…

To analyze three reconstruction techniques and mid-term clinical outcomes of hip revision for acetabular bone defect after total hip arthroplasty (THA).This is a retrospective case series study. Included in the study were 109 patients (109 hips) with acetabular bone defect after THA reconstructions in hip revisions fro…

A procedure for assessing birth spacing goals, an important component of fertility preferences, is proposed and applied to 1993 Costa Rican data. Based on a reverse or backward survival analysis, preferred birth intervals are estimated to range between 3.5 and 4.5 years (1.5 years for the interval union to first birth)…

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the outcomes among patients treated for gastric adenocarcinoma in a referral hospital, and to identify possible trends during the last decade. METHODS: All patients evaluated for gastric adenocarcinoma during the period 1999-2009 were included. RESULTS: Of 397 patients, 52% were curatively res…

8679 post mortem dissections have been performed in the Institute during the rescent 25 years; 563 of them have been cases of poisoning (=6.5% of totality). They were grouped for the years 1950--1965 and 1966--1975. Suicidal poisoning showed an increasing, poisoning in children a decreasing tendency during the last 25…

Uranium-series dating of corals from marine deposits of the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain coupled with paleoclimatic reconstructions based on ostracode (marine) and pollen (continent) data document at least five relatively warm intervals during the last 500,000 years. On the basis of multiple paleoenvironmental criteria,…

Body growth in nine children with primary de Toni-Debré-Fanconi syndrome was followed from birth to adolescence or adult life. At the time of diagnosis, corresponding to the start of treatment, the median age was 2.3 (range 0.4-13.9) years and height standard deviation score (SDS) was always decreased (median -3.5…

The records of 1,710 patients with adenocarcinoma of the stomach treated at Charity Hospital over a 35-year period were reviewed to note any trends which might help in understanding the decreasing incidence and poor prognosis of the disease. The yearly number of gastric cancer patients has dropped from 234/100,000 in t…