98,306 papers found

OBJECTIVE: This study examined economic inequality in coverage of selected maternal and child healthcare (MCH) indicators in India and its states over the last 15 years. DESIGN: The study analysed last three rounds of the National Family Health Survey data, conducted during 2005-2006, 2015-2016 and 2019-2021. Bivariat…

BACKGROUND: The college environment offers great opportunity for HIV high-risk behaviors, including unsafe sex and multiple partnerships. While the overall incidence of HIV infection has seen some decline in recent years, rates of HIV infection among young adults have not seen a proportionate decline. As in the general…

BACKGROUND: Older adults (aged ≥60 years) were prioritised for COVID-19 booster vaccination due to severe outcome risk, but the risk for this group is also affected by previous SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination. We estimated vaccine effectiveness against omicron-associated hospitalisation in older adults by p…

Skin is the widest and most accessible organ of the human body, and among its functions, the immunological one has been one of the most intriguing and investigated during the last 10 years; so, inflammatory and immune-mediated skin diseases (s-IMID) are considered as useful models to understand which physiopathological…

In 1977, I fell in love at first sight, and since then eating disorders have been a central part of my life. As I step down after 25 years as editor of Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, I am also saying goodbye to the eating disorders field and moving on to retirement and other areas of in…

Electronic noses, or artificial sensors of odorants. have been developed over the last ten years to perform a variety of identification tasks in various industries. This powerful technology is only beginning to be introduced in the field of medicine, but is promising in its potential to assist in diagnosis. This articl…

What is the significance of three-dimensional structural similarity? This fundamental question still remains unanswered in spite of advances in automatic structure comparison methods that have been made in the last few years. The answer to this question will give us a much deeper insight into the principles of protein…

Although your hospital will be surveyed only every two or three years, the results of that survey are vital not only to your hospital, but also to your department. And you need to become involved in the process from the presurvey questionnaire to the on-site visit. And you need to prepare for the next survey the day af…

The authors report a diagnosis of trisomy 21 in the 11th week following the last menstrual period in a patient of 40 years of age. This was made by chorion villi aspiration and direct cytogenetic examination.

The viewpoints of heterogenous medical and other specialists as regards the problems of anorexia and cachexia in oncological patients are still to be subjected to experimental and clinical elaboration and specification. A definite purposefulness is required during the disseminated stages as well as during the complicat…

A personal experience in the management of 73 ureterocele cases during the last 17 years and points of technical importance in the correction of this sometimes complex problem are described. Small adult-type ureteroceles are best resected, reimplanting the ureter, since simple unroofing can cause reflux. The infant-typ…

Advances in female sterilization have been made over the last five years in both its techniques and medico-social acceptance. Prior to 1970, the majority of tubal sterilizations were carried out by partial or complete surgical excision of both tubes by laparotomy in most cases, or by partial salpingectomy by an anterio…

A species presence at a particular site can change over time, resulting in temporally dynamic species pools. Ecological niche models provide estimates of species presence at different time intervals. The avifauna of La Brea includes approximately 120 species dating to approximately 15,000 years ago. Niche models predic…

PURPOSE: To compare the effects of partial or full hyperopic optical correction on refractive development in children with accommodative esotropia. METHODS: Children with accommodative esotropia and hyperopia >3 D were enrolled in this prospective, nonrandomized study. All children underwent an ophthalmologic examinat…

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Data on secular trends and outcomes of eosinophilic esophagitis (EE) are scarce. We performed a population-based study to assess the epidemiology and outcomes of EE in Olmsted County, Minnesota, over the last 3 decades. METHODS: All cases of EE diagnosed between 1976 and 2005 were identified using t…

BACKGROUND: Over the last two decades intra-aural tick infestation (otoacariasis) has been a common occurrence in the hilly central region in Sri Lanka. Very occasional detection of isolated unilateral facial nerve palsy associated with otoacariasis attributed to toxin damage of the nerve prompted us to study the clini…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effectiveness of selective-partial hemivertebra resection and instrumentation via posterior approach only for congenital kyphoscoliosis. METHODS: Between January 2008 and August 2011, 17 patients with congenital kyphoscoliosis were treated by selective-partial hemivertebra resection and i…

Studies to examine the impact of end-of-life (EOL) discussions on the utilization of life-sustaining treatments near death are limited and have inconsistent findings. This nationwide population-based cohort study determined the impact of EOL discussions on the utilization of life-sustaining treatments in the last three…

BACKGROUND: GNE myopathy is a clinicopathologically distinct distal myopathy with autosomal-recessive inheritance. The GNE gene mutations are known to cause this form of distal myopathy MATERIALS AND METHODS: Over the last 6 years, a total of 54 patients from 48 families were diagnosed to have GNE myopathy based on th…