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BACKGROUND: Acute flaccid paralysis surveillance (AFP) is an essential strategy of the WHO's Polio Eradication Initiative. This is the first study conducted to estimate the incidence, etiology, distribution, and surveillance performance of AFP in Iraq. METHODS: Surveillance data about the AFP cases under the age of 15…

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of endoscopic balloon dilatation in children with esophageal stenosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Retrospective study of patients treated in the last 5 years, diagnosed with esophageal stricture. Response to dilatation was defined as excellent when there was no need for…

BACKGROUND: India and Pakistan have disputed ownership of the Kashmir Valley region for many years, resulting in several conflicts since the end of partition in 1947. Very little is known about the prevalence of violence and insecurity in this population. METHODS: We undertook a two-stage cluster household survey in t…

AIM: To determine the effect of sildenafil citrate on the nocturnal penile erections (i.e. time to onset, the duration of erection, and the interval between first and second erections) of healthy young men. METHODS: Twenty-two potent men, 23-29 years old, were recruited for the study. All subjects completed three sess…

PURPOSE: To analyze refractive change in children with congenital ptosis who have undergone unilateral levator resection. METHODS: All charts of patients with congenital ptosis who underwent one levator resection performed by 2 pediatric ophthalmologists at the University of Minnesota from 1981 through 1995 were revie…

To investigate the clinical and imaging characteristics of distal tibiofibular synostosis in postoperative ankle fractures and its effects on the ankle mobility.The clinical and imaging data of 47 patients with distal tibiofibular synostosis treated surgically from October 1991 to June 2013 were analyzed retrospectivel…

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…

A review of National Health Service spending in England on prescription drugs used in Parkinsonism over the last 10 years shows that spending has risen rapidly and that newly introduced drugs are quickly and expensively adopted. This paper explores the gains and costs of such prescribing.

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…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the mid-term patient outcome after operative treatment of a displaced intra-articular calcaneal fracture according to Palmer. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Eighteen operatively treated intra-articular fractures of the calcaneus in 16 patients (nine males, seven females) were retrospectively reviewed. Mea…

Truck drivers represent a group at a particularly higher risk of motor vehicle accidents (MVAs). Sleepy driving and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) among truck drivers are major risk factors for MVAs. No study has assessed the prevalence of sleepy driving and risk of OSA among truck drivers in Saudi Arabia. Therefore, th…