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This study aimed at examining the approval rate of the medical students' regarding active euthanasia, passive euthanasia, and physician-assisted-suicide over the last ten years. To do so, the arguments and variables affecting students' choices were examined and a systematic review was conducted, using PubMed and Web of…

PURPOSE: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a musculoskeletal disorder that may have a heavy impact on the patients' quality of life. Intra-articular collagen injection may be a safe adjuvant. Recently, CHondroGrid (CG), a hydrolyzed (< 3 kDa) bovine collagen injectable formulation, has been placed on the market. The aim of t…

INTRODUCTION: Researchers have published several studies during the last 2 years that impact office management of prostate cancer. These works deal with cancer screening, and new techniques for diagnosing, imaging and treating this disease, along with new insights into the genetics of prostate cancer. The key publicati…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: In the last decade, the incidence of syphilis has increased in our health area. Our objective is to describe the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of patients diagnosed with syphilis at our centre and their relationship with HIV. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The clinical and epidemiologic…

INTRODUCTION: The influence of patient gender on the economic impact of health care has increasingly been examined in the recent literature. Gender appears to have an impact on healthcare resource consumption, due to possible differences in the patient's response to a chosen therapeutic management strategy or to a heal…

OBJECTIVE: Trends indicate that clinical psychologists' theoretical orientations have changed over the last decades in North America, but research on this topic in Canada is scarce. We analyzed the orientation of psychologists over the last 20 years in the province of Quebec, where 46% of Canadian psychologists are loc…

BACKGROUND: The use of chemotherapy in advanced cancer patients has increased with the development of novel, high-efficacy anticancer therapeutic agents. In the current study, we analyzed the 10-year trends in patients receiving chemotherapy at the end of life. METHOD: We retrospectively reviewed mortality data for ad…

BACKGROUND: The changing pattern of haemorrhage and perforation from peptic ulcer disease is well documented but little is known about pyloric stenosis, the third complication of the disease. METHODS: We reviewed records relating to definitive operations (with intent to cure) for peptic ulcer disease carried out in Yo…

OBJECTIVES: To examine the most recent trends of cesarean delivery in Nepal and the association with socio-demographic characteristics of mothers. METHODS: Nationally representative cross-sectional data was used from three Demographic and Health Surveys conducted in Nepal in 2001 (N = 4,745), 2006 (N = 4,066) and 2011…

PURPOSE: The evidence-based use of resources for cancer care at end of life (EOL) has the potential to relieve suffering, reduce health care costs, and extend life. Internal benchmarks need to be established within communities to achieve these goals. The purpose for this study was to evaluate data within our community…

Objective Vitamin A supplementation (VAS) is estimated to reduce all-cause mortality by 24%. Previous studies indicate that the effect of VAS may vary with vaccination status. The authors evaluated the effect of VAS provided in campaigns on child survival overall and by sex and vaccination status at the time of supplem…

In January 2010 we learnt that within London the best-off 10th of the population each had recourse to 273 times the wealth of the worse-off 10th of that population (Hills et al. 2010, An anatomy of economic inequality in the UK Report of the National Equality Panel, Government Equalities Office, London). It is hard to…

PURPOSE: Asthma includes immunological components that may share mechanisms with autoimmune diseases. We analyzed the subsequent occurrence of any of 22 autoimmune and related conditions in hospitalized asthma patients. METHODS: A nationwide study was conducted in Sweden on subsequent diseases of asthma patients on th…

INTRODUCTION: Craniopharyngioma bears a high rate of recurrence and morbidity in childhood. Although the outcome after recurrence and reoperation is an important parameter for the long-term evaluation of craniopharyngioma, it is poorly documented in literature. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We studied children reoperated for…

There is general agreement that H. pylori should be eradicated in patients with peptic ulcers. But the optimal therapeutical regimen to be used still remains a matter for many investigations. An increase in the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant H. pylori strains has been reported recently. The recommended drugs for th…

Epidemiologic data for the prevalence of oral cancer show marked geographic differences. The incidence of oral cancer in younger individuals seems to be on the increase. Prevalence of oral leukoplakia in German men is 2.3%, in women 0.9%. Risk factors for oral cancer and most variants of oral leukoplakia are identical.…

Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) has emerged as a worldwide problem. The annual incidence of TB has increased in Israel in the last decade, mainly due to successive waves of immigration. Few data are available on drug-resistant TB in Israel A 10-year retrospective review was conducted on all patients who had been infec…

We present the case of a 73-year-old female who underwent percutaneous cryoablation for recurrent life-threatening pancreatic vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-producing tumor (VIPoma) following a pancreaticoduodenectomy and chemotherapy 5&#xa0;years earlier. She presented with profuse watery diarrhea causing severe el…

Between 1987 and 2008, 45 patients have undergone cardiac transplantation in Hawai'i. This article summarizes the authors' experiences with cardiac transplantation over this 21-year period. The cumulative 1-, 3- and 5-year survival rates after transplantation have been 73.8%, 70.0%, and 63.2%, respectively. The corresp…

Of 2210 salmonella isolates referred to the New Zealand Communicable Disease Centre for epidemiological surveillance during 1987, 147 (6.7%) were resistant to one or more of 10 antibiotics. Resistance to streptomycin was most common (4.5%), followed by sulphamethoxazole (3.4%), tetracycline (3.3%), ampicillin (1.5%), a…