97,291 papers found

In this study, the background of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) patients in Japan was analyzed using the annual report database for 2007-2009. The results of the drug susceptibility test of 15,425 patients who were diagnosed with pulmonary TB between 2007 and 2009 were obtained and analyzed. The chi-square test for i…

BACKGROUND: Sex hormones have been implicated in leukemogenesis, but evidence regarding hormonal contraceptive use and leukemia risk remains limited and primarily based on older formulations. Given the widespread use of contemporary hormonal contraceptives, clarification of this potential association is needed. This st…

OBJECTIVE: To assess personal, professional, medical, and scientific educational characteristics and issues reported by pediatricians. METHODS: Cross-sectional study based on an online survey including 614 pediatricians who graduated in the last 15 years at a University Pediatric Department in Brazil. RESULTS: The re…

BACKGROUND: The details about the research productivity of the biomedical journals published from India is lacking. We analyzed the publishing trends and the research productivity of the Journal of the Association of Physicians of India (JAPI). MATERIALS AND METHODS: This was a bibliometric analysis of a biomedical jo…

In Veneto, like in Italy, in the last years the course of the professional diseases shown a trend in reduction. This trend has had to the difficulty to recognize the professional aetiology of multifactorial diseases. In the Venice the analysis of the course of the professional diseases in last the 4-5 years has demonst…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the very long-term clinical and functional outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients followed by office-based or hospital-based physicians. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A questionnaire including items on clinical outcomes (active disease, remission, burn-out) and the Health Assessment Questionnai…

OBJECTIVE: Menarche is the endpoint of a sequence of maturational events of female puberty. The timing of menarche is a strongly heritable trait. However, secular trends suggest that lifestyle and environmental factors are important. To assess the trend in age at menarche (AAM), and its associated factors in İsta…

A changing climate is expected to introduce uncertainty into water resource management decision making. We examined the latest publicly-available, state-level guidance regarding the management of water supplies and demands concerning risks associated with drought, flooding, and climate change. We found state-level guid…

BACKGROUND: The status of sensitization in kidney transplant recipients in the last 10 years and the trend of induction and maintenance therapy in patients of different panel-reactive antibody (PRA) levels have not been analyzed. The aim of this study was to investigate the current status of pre-transplant sensitizatio…

The relation between hormonal and lifestyle factors and breast cancer risk in women younger than 40 years was investigated using data from two case-control studies conducted in Italy between 1983 and 1994. Cases were 579 women with histologically confirmed, incident breast cancer and controls were 668 women admitted to…

Although thyroid carcinoma is more common in the adult population, the risk of a nodule being malignant is greater in children. The aim of our present investigation was to ascertain the percentage of malignancy in nodular goiter observed in patients from the Lower Silesia region in the last 12 years. The examination in…

The occurrence of eclampsia in the last two decades in the women's hospital of the University of Goettingen was evaluated. In a total of 32,578 birth there was an incidence of 0.11%. Maternal mortality was 16.2%, perinatal mortality 19.5%. 73% of the patients were primiparae, 24.3% unmarried pregnant women. A regressio…

Marine radiocarbon (14C) dates are widely used for dating oceanic events and as tracers of ocean circulation, essential components for understanding ocean-climate interactions. Past ocean ventilation rates have been determined by the difference between radiocarbon ages of deep-water and surface-water reservoirs, but th…

OBJECTIVE: To discuss operative methods and effects for Müller-Weiss disease. METHODS: From March 2005 to May 2011, 15 patients were operated. There were 2 males and 13 females, with an average age of 51.8 years (range, 26 to 62 years). The preoperative American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) ankle-hi…

BACKGROUND: Breast cancers (BCs) diagnosed after a recent pregnancy display features associated with poor prognosis, including hormone receptor negativity, but other tumor markers have not been examined. We sought to define the tumor marker profile of these cancers, including HER-2 and p53 expression, and examine the t…

OBJECTIVE: A pilot study to preliminarily examine the effects of Prism EFP NeuroFeedback (NF) in adult ADHD. METHOD: Prism EFP NF is a form of NF specifically designed to target emotional dysregulation (ED) through down regulation of amygdala activity. Prism EFP NF has been shown to improve other disorders with signif…

BACKGROUND: The treatment of hyperthyroid Graves' disease (GD) varies considerably among geographic areas. In this study, we aimed to evaluate practice patterns and treatment outcomes in Thai patients with hyperthyroid GD. METHODS: A retrospective cohort study over 35 years (1985-2019) in patients with hyperthy…

BACKGROUND: Globally, few published studies have tracked the temporal trend of dioxin levels in the human body since 2000. This study describes the annual trend of dioxin levels in human breast milk in Japanese mothers from 1998 through 2015. METHODS: An observational study was conducted from 1998 through 2015. Partic…

PURPOSE: To describe the long-term results of revision surgery for complications from trabeculectomy in a case series from an academic glaucoma service. DESIGN: Retrospective case series. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 310 eyes (310 individuals) who underwent revision of trabeculectomy at the Wilmer Eye Institute between 2…

Since the appearance of the 3D printing in the 1980s it has revolutionized many research fields including the pharmaceutical industry. The main goal is to manufacture complex, personalized products in a low-cost manufacturing process on-demand. In the last few decades, 3D printing has attracted the attention of numerou…