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BACKGROUND: Tanning lamp sessions have increased in Europe in recent years. Recent epidemiological studies have confirmed a proven link between melanoma and artificial UV exposure. However, in France, little information is available to determine the exposure of the population. This article presents the results from the…

Portion sizes of foods have been noticably increasing in recent years, but when did this trend begin? If art imitates life and if food portions have been generally increasing with time, we might expect this trend to be reflected in paintings that depict food. Perhaps the most commonly painted meal has been that of Jesu…

BACKGROUND: Sexual partnership dates are critical to sexually transmitted infection/HIV research and control programs, although validity is limited by inaccurate recall and reporting. METHODS: We examined data from 302 heterosexual adults (151 index-partner dyads) to assess reliability of reporting. Dates of first sex…

In men and women, there has been a significant decrease in the age at first intoxication over the last 20 years. Significant differences were also found between men and women in their drinking partners during their first intoxication.

BACKGROUND: Low back pain is a common presenting symptom among workers in primary health care facilities, including physicians. AIM: This study aimed to identify the magnitude, determinants and sequence of the problem of low back pain among physicians working at the King Salman Armed Forces hospital, Tabuk, Saudi Arab…

In children with asymptomatic proteinuria, a high proportion of low molecular weight (LMW) proteins is an indicator of tubular malfunction. In a routine screening program covering the last 15 years and involving 280,000 children, aged between 3 and 19 years, we have identified 5 boys with LMW proteinuria. In 4 of these…

BACKGROUND: Gender inequity is still pervasive in academic medicine, including journal publishing. We aimed to ascertain the proportion of women among first and last authors and editors in infectious diseases journals and assess the association between women's editorship and women's authorship while controlling for a j…

PURPOSE: The aim of this study is to (1) examine the prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in adolescents and young adults in the U.S., including those who had a dental visit in the last year but not a medical visit and (2) to determine an association between last visit to the dentist and HPV vaccination…

Twenty-two patients with upper extremity syndactyly (58 webs) have been treated in the last decade (1976 to 1985) by one hand surgeon using one technique. Nineteen patients had syndrome complexes or other associated anomalies that made treatment more difficult. The postoperative follow-up averaged 4 years. The rate of…

Ninety cases of synovial sarcoma of the hand, including eight case reports have been described during the last fifty years, (1934-1984). 8.5% of all synovial sarcomata involve the hand, and affect predominantly individuals under the age of thirty. The five-year survival of these cases was 18% and the ten-year survival…

Parents of 18 children who died of cancer in the last five years were interviewed. The mean duration of terminal care was 5.6 weeks, the median being two weeks. Most children died peace-fully at home after a brief but obvious period of deterioration. More counselling is needed for families in this situation.

This is a report of prospective study of eight patients with testicular tumours seen at the Urology Unit of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital over a five-year period (1979-1983). The mean age was 32.7 years. Four patients (50%) had germ cell tumours including embryonal carcinoma 25%, seminoma 12.5% and malignant t…

OBJECTIVES: We report the data from the Italian Survey on trans-septal catheterization (TSP-C) for catheter ablation of arrhythmias in the left heart that covered 2003 and previous years. BACKGROUND: Over the last decade the use of TSP-C in the electrophysiology laboratory has greatly increased. Recent data on number…

Paediatric Crohn's disease (PCD) often presents with extensive and a frequent pan-enteric phenotype at onset. However, its long term evolution into adulthood, especially since the widespread use of biological agents, is not well characterised. We conducted a single centre cohort study of all PCD patients transitioned t…

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders among adults seeking care in primary healthcare centers in Cordoba city, Argentina. METHODS: Cross-sectional analysis of a random sample of adults 18-69 years of age seeking care for general health problems in public (i.e., government-funded) primary…

Heraclitus, a philosopher who lived nearly 500 years before the common era, made the assertion that "Life is Flux," meaning that change is the only constant in life. Modern medicine, inclusive of the field of sleep medicine, has undergone dramatic changes over the last 10 years. For the American Academy of Sleep Medici…

The use of antiasthmatic drugs in Iceland has increased considerably during the last 15 years. The aim of this study was to assess in a well-defined epidemiological population the characteristics of those using antiasthmatic drugs; age, gender, speciality of prescribing doctor, dosage and combinations of drugs. Also th…

On the basis of 70 re-operations in 55 patients (34 women, 21 men, median age 58 [43-83] years) suffering from primary hyperparathyroidism the reasons for failure of the first operations were analysed. The main reasons were inadequate exploration of the neck (failure to identify all four glands), failure to recognize m…