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Nutritional status is an important aspect of childhood cancer, with a bearing on the disease and subsequent survivorship. We sought to evaluate the long-term anthropometric outcomes in a cohort of pediatric solid tumor survivors treated between 1994 and 2016. Anthropometry was noted at the time of presentation, after c…

OBJECTIVE: Emergency hysterectomy in obstetric practice is generally performed in the setting of life-threatening hemorrhage. A retrospective review based on hospital data of 67 patients undergoing emergency peripartum hysterectomy over 10 years was undertaken. METHODS: Comparison of two different time periods regardi…

BACKGROUND: To determine national trends in the utilization of surgical procedures for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in Australia over the last 20 years. METHODS: The Medicare Australia and Australian Institute of Health and Welfare databases were used to determine the annual number of sur…

BACKGROUND: In public health, hard-to-reach populations are often recruited by non-probabilistic sampling methods that produce biased results. In order to overcome this, several sampling methods have been improved and developed in the last years. The aim of this systematic review was to identify all current methods use…

BACKGROUND: Over the centuries, the world has witnessed alcohol use as a common phenomenon among the male population. Owing to the vulnerability of women towards alcohol and its possible consequences on women as well as children when pregnant or lactating mothers drink alcohol, there is utmost need to know the alcohol…

The National Health Service could face a further four years of reorganisation if Labour wins the next election, Shadow Health Secretary Robin Cook warned last week.

The aim of this study is to describe trends in overweight and obesity among Slovenian youth for the period 1989-2018. Nearly all schoolchildren in Slovenia had their height and weight measured annually, which lead to a total of 6,738,510 data-points during the 30-year period. The IOTF cut-off points and Joinpoint regre…

There is a constant increase of joint arthroplasties to improve the quality of life of an ever-aging population. Although prosthetic-joint infections are rare, with an incidence of 1-2%, they represent a serious complication in terms of morbidity and mortality. Infection related mortality is known to be approaching 8%…

BACKGROUND: In Europe, residential care homes (RCHs) are replacing hospitals as the place where death occurs, and they play an important role in end-of-life (EOL) care. OBJECTIVE: The aim was to describe the quality of care during the last 3 months and last 3 days of life of those who died in RCHs as reported by famil…

BACKGROUND: The number of elderly type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients in Japan is increasing continuously. Hypoglycemia is a significant issue in their treatment. However, the actual situation and related details of their hypoglycemia remain unclear. In order to elucidate them, the Japan Physicians Association con…

In Japan, a significant number of adolescent females noted unusual symptoms after receiving the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination, of which the vast majority of them were initially diagnosed with psychiatric illnesses because of the absence of pathologic radiological images and specific abnormalities in laboratory…

We previously investigated bladder cancer risk in a cohort of dyestuff workers who were heavily exposed to aromatic amines from 1922 through 1972. We updated the follow-up by 14 years (through 2003) for 590 exposed workers to include more than 30 years of follow-up since last exposure to aromatic amines. Expected numbe…

OBJECTIVE: A multicenter study based in the United States assessed the heat-moisture exchanger effect on respiratory symptoms and "voice quality" of laryngectomees. PATIENTS AND MEASURES: The study group consisted of 81 consecutive laryngectomees (62 men and 19 women; mean age, 66 years; age range, 45 to 89 years), wit…

Bacterial meningitis, a world-wide disease, has to be reviewed periodically because the specific micro-organisms responsible for the infection vary with time, geography and patient age. To determine its incidence and clinical features in Taiwan, we reviewed the microbiological records for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and…

BACKGROUND: Recently Luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) agonist has been used for premenopausal patients with breast cancer as endocrine therapy. However, there is no consensus regarding recovery of menstruation after long-term treatment with LH-RH agonist. We investigated recovery of menstruation after this…

The prevalence of allergic rhinitis, hay fever and eczema has risen worldwide during the last four decades but may have reached a plateau in some westernized societies. We examined time trends in the prevalence of childhood chronic or recurrent rhinitis, rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema in urban Greece. Using identical m…

AIM: To analyze the clinical spectrum of urogenital tuberculosis (TB) in children from 1993-1997 to 2013-2017, who were treated at the FSCU "Kiritsy". MATERIALS AND METHODS: Clinical forms of urogenital tuberculosis were diagnosed in 195 children (stage 1) and 158 children (stage 2). Conventional methods of TB diagnos…