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The UK's four chief nursing officers should carry out workforce planning exercises to identify the number of mental handicap nurses likely to be needed over the next ten years, according to a new report published last week.

The rate of caesarean births has increased rapidly in the last 20 years. Midwives have a vital role in helping the parents through this experience and ensuring it is as positive as possible.

PURPOSE: (1) To investigate whether patients with bone-on-bone (BOB) medial OA (Ahlback grade 2) had comparable clinical improvement to those with non-BOB arthritis with remaining joint space (Ahlback grades 0/1) after medial open-wedge high tibial osteotomy (MOWHTO); (2) to determine whether the radiological results d…

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to analyze radiologic and clinical results with a minimum 5 years follow-up (FUP) of lateral lumbar total disc replacement for the treatment of symptomatic lumbar degenerative disc disease. METHODS: We performed a prospective, single-center, clinical, and radiologic study. Patients were tre…

PURPOSE: We report short term results of open surgical treatment for symptomatic femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) in patients over the age of 30 years. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Between May 2011 and June 2012, thirteen FAI hips (11 patients) with hip pain persisting longer than 6 months were treated by either surgical…

BACKGROUND/METHODS: Although several studies have suggested that physical activity is associated with a decreased risk of breast cancer, such a decrease has not been found consistently, perhaps because physical activity was assessed in different ways and for restricted periods. Few studies have assessed the risk of bre…

PURPOSE: To report on minimum 5-year outcomes following subacromial balloon spacer implantation (SBSI), in terms of survivorship, pain reduction, functional outcomes, complications, and reoperations. METHODS: Data were prospectively collected and retrospectively analyzed for consecutive patients undergoing SBSI betwee…

Our object was to describe demographic data from a population of adult asthmatics admitted to a regional tertiary medical center to identify risk factors for intubation. We performed a retrospective cohort study of all asthma admissions (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Code 493.9) excluding ca…

Over the last two decades, we have tracked the national burden of cancer and its trends in Ethiopia, providing estimates of incidence, death, and disability adjusted life years. In Ethiopia, there were an estimated 53,560 (95% UI 52,480-55,540) new incident cases, 39,480 deaths (95% UI 32,640-46,440), and 1.42 million…

Most cases of breast cancer are diagnosed at early stage of disease; therefore, treatment is oriented to increase the disease-free interval (DFI) and overall survival (OS). The prognosis, in comparison with other malignancies, has improved in the last decades as a result of mammographic screening. The aim of the study…

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Emergency department (ED) crowding has multiple causative factors, including delayed patient throughput. Patient care efficiency may be improved by addressing delays in decisionmaking following diagnostic testing results. We examined the influence of sending subscribed result push notifications to ED c…

BACKGROUND: We reviewed our experience with aortic valve-sparing operations in Marfan syndrome during last 5 years. METHODS: Between March 2004 and June 2009, 94 patients with aortic root aneurysms underwent valve-sparing operations. Of these, 37 (68% male) were diagnosed with Marfan syndrome, according to the Ghent d…

One-hundred sex workers and 100 clients were interviewed at a bar/disco complex in Harare, Zimbabwe in 1989. Sociodemographic characteristics of sex workers and clients were examined. Almost a third of sex workers and nearly 90% of clients had engaged in commercial sex over 5 or more years. Sex workers reported that th…

Nurses in Denmark were ordered to end their three-week pay strike last week, after the government passed a law to make the strike illegal. More than 12,000 nurses held the biggest strike rally seen in Denmark for 10 years as the legislation was passed. The government will now set up a commission to investigate pay, wor…

We report a case of unilateral Brown-McLean syndrome (peripheral corneal oedema) with bilateral keratoconus. A 30 years old lady presented with decreased vision in her right eye for the last 2 years. There was no history of surgery or trauma. Patient had no systemic illness. There was peripheral concentric corneal oede…