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STUDY OBJECTIVE: The study aimed to investigate the influence the mode of administration of a questionnaire (telephone or face to face) on reports of sexual behaviour and attitudes of HIV risk among woman of reproductive age. DESIGN: Two cross sectional surveys--one, a modified random digit dialing telephone survey, t…

Among the many advances in local anesthesia of the hand, some of the most significant changes in the last 5 years have been the following: (1) the acceptance of safety of locally infiltrated epinephrine with lidocaine for hemostasis, which has removed the need for sedation, brachial plexus blocks, and general anesthesi…

Over the last 5 years, there has been a resumed interest in treating diabetes by transplantation, particularly islet transplantation. However, despite advances being reported in Canada and the US, replication in the UK has been much more difficult. At present there is still only one treatment that can consistently reve…

Over the last 5 years, 26 cancer patients developed pericardial effusion and were managed surgically with the creation of a subxiphoidal pericardial 'window'. The operation, in the majority of the cases was performed under local anaesthesia with adequate sedation. It was found to be safe and easy to perform. The operat…

The activity of thrombin is central to the processes of fibrin generation and platelet aggregation, which are inherent in thrombus formation. As a result of x-ray crystallographic studies over the last 5 years, we now have a firm knowledge of the structural basis for the specific interactions of thrombin with component…

The aim of this study is to identify the use of cervical cancer screening and sociodemographic determinants associated with proper screening, overscreening, and underscreening in the Italian target population. Cross-sectional data from the national last available survey 'Health and use of health care in Italy,' conduct…

The extent to which dementia affects a person's testamentary capacity has been the subject of much litigation with some countries introducing legal tests to assess capacity. In light of substantial societal change in Albania in the last two decades and an epidemic of property litigation, Albanian legal practice is witn…

Florida (USA), particularly the southern portion of the State, is in a precarious situation concerning arboviral diseases. The geographic location, climate, lifestyle, and the volume of travel and commerce are all conducive to arbovirus transmission. During the last decades, imported dengue cases have been regularly re…

The professionalization of any sport must include an appreciation for how and where nutrition can positively affect training adaptation and/or competition performance. Furthermore, there is an ever-increasing importance of nutrition in sports that feature very high training volumes and are of a long enough duration tha…

Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) evolve in an exponential manner in the two key areas of efficiency and stability. The power conversion efficiency (PCE) has in the last decade been increased by almost a factor of ten approaching 10%. A main concern has been the stability that was previously measured in minutes, but can now…

IMPORTANCE OF THE FIELD: Engineering of cell culture substrates provides a unique opportunity for precise control of the cellular microenvironment with both spatial as well as temporal resolutions. This greatly enhances studies of cell-cell, cell-matrix and cell-factor interaction studies in vitro. AREAS COVERED IN TH…

The last fifty years have seen an upsurge in both the number of ethical dilemmas confronting the medical profession and an interest in ethics in both lay and professional circles. The first editor of this journal saw the subject as critical for medical practice, though he did not suppose that the perfect day of medical…

Over the last years, the omnipresent standardization of playgrounds-the distances between, for example, jumping stones tend to be equal-has been criticized by both scientists and architects. First, it has been argued that standardization fails to do justice to the variability in the children's action capabilities. Seco…

The effect of drinking water fluoridation on the course of hearing of non-operated otosclerotic ears was assessed in an area where the natural waters have a very low fluoride content. The study population consisted of 150 patients with surgically proven otosclerosis. Patients having an additional known cause of hearing…

The terminal phase of pontine glioma is reportedly characterized by disturbance of consciousness. The authors retrospectively reviewed 8 children who died of pontine gliomas in their hospitals. The hospital records were analyzed specifically in regard to neurological status and terminal case. All children became mute a…

The shortage of land resources restricts the sustainable development of agricultural production. Multiple cropping has been widely used in Southern China, but whether the continuous planting will cause a decline in soil quality and crop yield is unclear. To test whether multiple cropping could increase grain yield, we…

The preoperative history and postoperative course of histologically verified 348 low-grade and 383 anaplastic astrocytomas have been reviewed. In 71.2 and 48.0% of patients epilepsy was the initial symptom of a suspected astrocytoma, and the history was longer than 3 years in 28.1 and 19.5% of cases, respectively. Befo…

BACKGROUND/AIMS: The aims of the present study were to assess overall survival in patients with advanced, nonresectable colorectal cancer from an individual center and to evaluate the effect of successive new chemotherapy regimens during 25 years at that center. METHODOLOGY: The medical journals of all patients with m…

BACKGROUND: In Norway, we have offered testing of PMS2 since 2006, and have a large national cohort of carriers. The aim of this study was to describe all PMS2 variants identified, and to describe frequency, spectrum and penetrance of cancers in carriers of class 4/5 variants. METHODS: All detected PMS2 variants were…