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OBJECTIVE: To determine intrauterine contraceptive device (IUCD) discontinuation rate and its causes and related factors among women attending the OPD/family planning clinic in Mahila Chikitasalaya, SMS Medical College, Jaipur from January 2012 to December 2012. METHODS: 387 women who had an intrauterine device (IUD)…

A general overview of hypertension as a major health problem in Cuba in the last 25 years are presented. In the first period, 1974-1990 was created a National Hypertension High Commission by the Minister of Public and the First national program for prevention and Control of Hypertension in Cuba was launched. To define…

Over the last 10 years, 17 patients (13 males and 4 females) diagnosed as having classical polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) were treated and followed up in the rheumatology clinic of our institute. The median age and duration of symptoms at presentation were 29 years (range 13-59) and 9.5 months, respectively. Patients prese…

The first epidemiologic survey of the prevalence of childhood asthma and other allergic disease in Ankara, Turkey, was done in May 1992. A questionnaire on factors influencing the atopic status and allergic symptoms was distributed to parents of 1226 children aged 6-12 years. In this questionnaire, parents were asked t…

Maternal, perinatal and neonatal factors of 27 newborns of heroin addicted mothers were reviewed between 1980 and 1984. Results were compared with a control group of 2,587 normal newborns. A progressive increase in number of cases was observed in the last years. Mean age of heroin-addicted mothers was significant lower…

BACKGROUND: Scleroderma (SSc) patients with active interstitial lung disease (ILD) experience a decline in lung function and increased mortality; cyclophosphamide (CYC) therapy may stabilize lung function at one and two years follow-up. Long-term lung function and survival outcomes of SSc patients with ILD following CY…

BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to assess the complication and re-operation rates, evaluate the risk of non-union, and describe the functional outcomes at last follow-up in children and adolescents after lower-limb malignant tumour resection and reconstruction using the induced-membrane technique. HYPOTHES…

OBJECTIVE: To report the radiologic and functional results of a multicenter, prospective case series of patients with comminuted lumbar fractures treated with 2-stage circumferential arthrodesis. METHODS: A multicenter prospective case series of 74 patients with comminuted lumbar fractures was analyzed. The strategy e…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the early clinical outcomes of subtotal corpectomy and intervertebral bone grafting through posterior approach alone in the treatment of thoracolumbar burst fracture or thoracolumbar fracture-dislocation. METHODS: Between January 2009 and December 2010, 20 patients with thoracolumbar burst fract…

OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between neonatal bilirubin levels and subsequent neurodevelopmental outcome. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: 12 US medical centers from 1959 (first births) to 1974 (last follow-up). PARTICIPANTS: 41,324 singleton white or black infants with birth weight > or = 2500 g…

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the factors that increase the practice of condomless anal sex (CAS) among adolescent men who have sex with men (AMSM) and adolescent travestis and transgender women (ATGW) in three Brazilian state capitals. METHODS: PrEP1519 is a prospective, multicenter cohort study demonstrating the effectivene…

Cannabis is the third most consumed drug worldwide. Thus, healthcare providers should be able to identify users who are in need for an intervention. This study aims to explore the relationship of acute, chronic, and early exposure (AE, CE, and EE) to cannabis with cognitive and behavioral harms (CBH), as a first step t…

Eroom's law (Moore's law spelled backwards), describes adverse trends towards declining innovation and rising costs of drug development over the last several decades. Therapeutics for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) appear to have been particularly sensitive to these trends. Thirty-three percent fewer CVD therapeutics we…

In this paper, we classify scientific articles in the domain of natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML), as core subfields of artificial intelligence (AI), into whether (i) they extend the current state-of-the-art by the introduction of novel techniques which beat existing models or whether (ii) the…

PURPOSE: To report the stability of the functional cure in a chart review of patients with congenital esotropia. METHODS: The charts of 31 patients with congenital esotropia, encountered in 2007-2012 with functional cure, were studied. The stability of the cure and duration of follow-up were determined by comparing th…

OBJECTIVE: Do a factor analysis of the Greene Climacteric Scale for a population of Indian perimenopausal women and establish normative values. METHODS: Five hundred and eighteen women, in the age range 45-55 years, were selected and asked to fill out the Greene Climacteric Scale. RESULTS: The mean age of the women w…

Chiari malformation is a developmental disorder that is often associated with other abnormalities of the cerebrospinal axis. Despite widespread recognition of this association, there is relatively little information on the treatment of these coexisting disorders in the setting of cerebellar tonsillar ectopia. In an eff…

Computational modelling of biological processes and systems has witnessed a remarkable development in recent years. The search-term (modelling OR modeling) yields over 58000 entries in PubMed, with more than 34000 since the year 2000: thus, almost two-thirds of papers appeared in the last 5-6 years, compared to only ab…

For many years it has been assumed that the ontogeny of the mammalian hematopoietic system involves sequential transfers of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) generated in the yolk sac blood islands, to successive hematopoietic organs as these become active in the embryo (fetal liver, thymus, spleen and eventually bone ma…

Shigellosis has been a major cause of dysentery for many years at Vellore, south India. In the last two years the number of Shigella being isolated from samples of faeces from patients with diarrhoea has decreased (5% isolation rate in 1997 to 3.9% in 2001), although the microbiological methods and media used have not…