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This review summarizes data collected by the Swedish National Cataract Register (NCR), which by the end of 2022 contained data on more than 2.6 million cataract surgeries between 1992-2022. During these 31 years, the cataract surgery rate (CSR) rose from 3 700 to 14 407. The coverage of NCR is very high, including 93%…

Approximately 1% of the population suffers from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) worldwide (0.45% in Poland). The therapy consists of the use of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs). Biologics are used in the form of the drug programme. Analysis of the NHF database demonstrated the sequence of conversion between dru…

Contemporary child and adolescent psychoanalytic technique has evolved and changed a great deal in the last thirty years. This paper will describe the analysis of an adolescent girl from early in the author's career to demonstrate the ways in which technique has changed. The clinical material presented highlights six a…

A previously well woman, 44 years of age, presented with 3 years of recurrent bilateral renal colic. Despite an increase in fluid intake and a low calcium diet, the intermittent episodes of renal colic continued and had become more frequent in the last year. An abdominal X-ray was performed, which showed some radio-opa…

Speleothem laminae have been postulated to form annually, and this lamina-chronology is widely applied to high-resolution modern and past climate reconstructions. However, this argument has not been directly supported by high resolution dating methods. Here we present contemporary single-lamina (230)Th dating technique…

The article presents actual tendencies in morbidity of students of two universities of Saralov. The characteristics of medical social factors impacting students' health and morbidity of respiratory diseases are given. During, the last five years the increase of common morbidity of students up to 20.3% (from 932.3 to 11…

This review summarizes efficacious treatments for preschoolers, children and adolescents with post-traumatic stress disorder, with a focus on the advances made within the last 5 years. There is considerable support for the use of trauma-specific cognitive-behavioral interventions, in both individual and group formats.…

To control the Arctic variant of rabies virus in red foxes, 332,257 bait doses containing live, attenuated Evelyn-Rokitnicki-Abelseth rabies vaccine were distributed in greater metropolitan Toronto during 1989-1999. Human and pet contact with bait was minimal, and no adverse reactions to the vaccine were noted. Signifi…

The Hypertension Unit, University Hospital San Cecilio of Granada, on fulfilling 15 years and after the experience acquired in this extended period, wants to stress various "facts": 1) the importance of correctly measuring blood pressure, avoiding rounding off "numbers" and making three consecutive measurements, taking…

At the turn of the 20th Century, the Universe was thought to consist of our solar system, the Sun, planets, satellites and comets, floating under the Milky Way. The astronomers were ignorant of the existence of galaxies, clusters, quasars and black holes. Over the last ten years the Cosmology has made remarkable progre…

A new intraurethral catheter (IUC) developed by Nissenkorn has been inserted in 43 patients in the last 3 years. We reserved this device for very selected patients in urinary retention due to prostatic obstruction with operative contraindications or limited life expectancy. The device is simple, very easy to insert und…

In a retrospective study the surgically treated vascular injuries (n = 35) of the last 10 years were evaluated. One third of the patients had multiple trauma and in 57% of the cases vascular injury was accompanied by a fracture. All patients (n = 28) except those who underwent delayed amputation (amputation rate 14%) h…

Eleven cases of primary carcinoma of vagina were admitted in Kasturba Medical College Hospital during the last 10 years, of which 6 cases aged 44-72 years, were associated with 3rd degree uterine prolapse. All the patients attended the hospital in late stage in spite of having 3rd degree uterine prolapse. Blood stained…

The review of the red algal theory for ancestry of Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes published 10 years ago by the author is updated. Criticisms are answered and new data are discussed. The production of choline sulfate, lenthionine and lanosol are added to the biochemical similarities between red algae and higher fungi.…

In the last 5 years there has been an increasing commitment to cell support regimens and bone marrow transplantation in leukaemia and the clinical service has developed in parallel with laboratory-based research programmes. In the acute leukaemias there has been a major attempt to improve diagnostic accuracy and to cla…

The purpose of this work was to establish the age-specific prevalence rates of alcoholism syndromes in a cohort defined 25 years ago. Information has been collected by psychiatrists through free, exploratory field interviews subsequently checked against documentary records. Alcoholism was medically defined in three cat…

An African from the Comoros Islands, who has been living in Berlin for eleven years and who had made his last journey to Africa two years before, fell ill with high fever upon returning from a visit to Mayotte and Grande Comore. His blood smear revealed trophozoites of Plasmodium falciparum. After intake of 25 mg of ch…

A total of 89 patients, age 80 years or older at the time of initial permanent pacemaker implantation, were followed for 10 to 128 months [mean 32.7]. There were 54 males and 35 females. The mean age was 84.8 years. There were 51 patients age 80-84, 25 age 85-89, and 13 age 90-94. The actuarial 5-year survival was 45%.…

A 64-year-old male with a 15-year history of poorly controlled type 2 diabetes and a 10-year history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia had developed multiple diabetes-related complications within the last 5 years. He first developed albuminuria 5 years ago, and over the next several years experienced fairly rapid decl…

Educational interventions represent an alternative for the reproductive well-being. The objective of this investigation was to identify in a mexican community, attitudes and behaviors related to reproductive health, with the goal of implementing a specific health education program. The study population consisted of wom…