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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: This study's aims were to identify the diagnoses, the public hospital costs and payments for non-New Zealand (non-NZ) patients referred because of possible tuberculosis (TB). There have been no previous financial studies in this area. Funding arrangements for these patients were also reviewed.…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether meal patterns and cooking practices in Central England and Mediterranean France conform to popular stereotypes, eating together as a household, preparation of meals, food purchasing patterns, cooking practices and eating out were investigated. DESIGN: Cross-sectional studies conducted si…

Recent studies have identified a "hard core" of drinking drivers who do not fit a "social" drinker profile and may require medical intervention. This article builds on these studies by quantifying the role of heavy drinking in motor vehicle fatalities. Data on male alcohol-involved fatally injured drivers (AIFIDs) were…

Testing separate path analytic models for 7th-grade users and nonusers, we assess the impact of cognitive, social influence and behavioral antecedents on adolescent drinking 3 and 12 months later. For the group that had not tried alcohol by grade 7, we found that social influence factors--exposure to peers who drink or…

Introduction Neuropathic pain is a common and disabling late complication of leprosy. We investigated the clinical and electrophysiological characteristics of neuropathic pain in leprosy patients by evaluating nerve conduction, sympathetic skin response (SSR) and A-waves. Methods Twenty one leprosy patients with neurop…

BACKGROUND: An elevated (≥3.1g/dl) gamma gap (Total Protein (g/dl)-Albumin (g/dl)) is associated with increased heart failure risk and an increased mortality risk. Adequate muscular strength is associated with reduced mortality risk, but the potential protective effects of muscular strength on mortality among th…

Civil aviation flight crew and civil aviation air traffic controllers are prone to circadian rhythm abnormalities, which can lead to a slew of other maladies. It could endanger people's health and provide a serious threat to the safety of civil aviation flights if it is not appropriately evaluated and addressed. Early…

Impacting over 3.9 billion people, dental cavities requires a trained dentist for diagnosis. Unfortunately, barriers such as dentophobia, limited dentist availability, and lack of dental insurance prevent millions from receiving care. To address this, an Artificial Intelligence system was developed that detects cavity…

This study proposes and discusses a multi-scale spatial planning method implemented simultaneously at local and national level to prioritize ecosystem management actions across landscapes and seascapes. Mismatches in scale between the occurrence of biodiversity patterns and ecological processes, and the size and nature…

Epilepsy is a common, and often genetic, neurological disorder. Few guidelines exist to help medical providers or insurance companies decide when to order or cover epilepsy panels for patients with epilepsy. The most recent guidelines were published by NSGC after this study's data collection. Since 2017, the Genetic Te…

OBJECTIVE: The current study evaluates the psychometric properties of the Protective and Compensatory Experiences Survey (PACES; Morris et al., 2018) within a military population. The study's aims are to evaluate if the PACES is a reliable measure to use with military samples and to examine the validity of the PACES me…

BACKGROUND: Healthcare workers (HCWs) represents one of the highest-risk population to develop burnout symptoms. Recently, a new tool has been designed to measure several dimensions that capture an exhaustive expression of burnout symptoms by six dimensions (i.e., exhaustion; mental distance; cognitive impairment; emot…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Myelomeningocele (MMC) is a congenital anomaly frequently leading to motor deficits, urological dysfunction, and hydrocephalus. Fetal surgical repair improves motor function and reduces the need for cerebrospinal fluid diversion for hydrocephalus. One complication of MMC repair is spinal cord…

BACKGROUND: Pleomorphic adenoma (PA), the most common benign salivary gland epithelial lesion, has a biphasic epithelial-mesenchymal pattern and great histopathological diversity. METHODS: This study's objective was to conduct a retrospective clinicopathological analysis, focusing on the histopathology characteristics…

Herbs have been used as sustenance and medicine for a very long time, often in conjunction with other prescribed medications. Even though they are thought to be natural and secure, many of these herbs can interact with other medications and cause potentially dangerous adverse effects or decrease the benefits of the med…

Studies have suggested that in African countries, symptoms of cognitive decline are commonly seen as part of "normal ageing" or attributed to supernatural causes. The impact of folk beliefs about causality upon help-seeking is unclear. Likewise, there is a lack of evidence relating to how families cope with living with…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: To determine the effect of propranolol on retinal neovascularization due to proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR). PATIENTS AND METHODS: For this prospective pilot, interventional, case series, patients with diabetes with PDR (n = 10 subjects; 12 eyes) were recruited at the ophthalmology c…

Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in their middle adulthood are more prone to reduced mobility than younger patients having the same medical condition. Progressive resistive exercise training (PRT) is deemed an effective treatment approach for the management of muscular weakness in patients with CKD. The prese…

The risk of progression to renal replacement after pancreas transplant alone (PTA) is a concern in patients with pre-transplant estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) < 70 mL/min/1.73 m(2). This is a retrospective, single-center risk analysis of potential factors affecting renal function after PTA. Twenty-four pat…

OBJECTIVE: The strongest predictor of adolescent alcohol use is affiliation with friends who drink, use other drugs, or engage in deviant behavior. Most studies measure this variable using adolescent perceptions of friend problem behavior, but some research suggests these perceptions may be inaccurate. The current stud…