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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Until recently, people in Australia with a history of injection drug use (IDU) were deferred indefinitely from donating blood. Knowledge gaps regarding policy non-compliance and the prevalence of blood donation practices amongst people who inject drugs (PWID) precluded changes to this policy.…

INTRODUCTION: Obesity shows a multifactorial disease and presents a serious public health problem, with an alarming epidemic character. According to NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey) from 2015 to 2016, 39.6% of American adults and 18.5% of young people were obese and 7.7% of adults and 5.6% of y…

OBJECTIVE: Congenital cardiac anomalies are a major determinant of morbidity and mortality in Turner syndrome (TS), yet long-term cardiovascular outcome data remain limited. This study assessed cardiovascular morbidity, mortality, valve dysfunction, and aortic outcomes in TS patients with congenital cardiovascular defe…

AIMS: In patients with heart failure, treatment patterns in the last years of life have not been assessed at large scale. We aimed to assess whether heart failure treatment patterns up to 5 years prior to death changed over time. METHODS AND RESULTS: In a cohort study covering the whole Swedish population, we a…

BACKGROUND: Air pollution has been linked to breast cancer risk, but previous studies have seldom considered specific exposure windows, like pregnancy. During pregnancy the breast undergoes substantial changes and exposures may have a stronger impact than if they occurred during other time periods. This study aims to i…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of lumbar interbody fusion impacted bone grafts combined with regrafting in situ with spinous process and vertebral plate complex and pedicle screw fixation for lumbar degenerative instability. METHODS: Between January 1998 and October 2010, 48 patients with lumbar degenerative…

Over the last 10 years there has been steady progress in our understanding of the structure of the iron-binding proteins transferrin and ferritin, and the transferrin receptor. In the last few years there have been very rapid developments in understanding of the genetics of these proteins and the regulation of synthesi…

BACKGROUND: The goal of this study was to examine neurosurgical scientific publications and change in the trends in major neurosurgical journals during the last 10 years. METHODS: The peer-reviewed articles published in 12 prominent neurosurgical journals over the last 10 years were analyzed. The journals were grouped…

By comparing the current quality investigation data of cultivated soils in Zhejiang province with the past data, changing characteristics of organic matter and pH value of the soils in this province over last 50 years were analyzed. The results showed that content of organic matter and pH value of the cultivated soils…

OBJECTIVE: Report on the clinical results following bilateral globus pallidus interna deep brain stimulation in four patients (one female and three males) with severe cervical dystonia, mean age 48 years (range 37-67). METHODS: All four patients had failed extensive medical and botulinum toxin treatment. The mean dura…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of combined posterior decompression with laminoplasty and anterior decompression with fusion for the treatment of cervical spinal canal stenosis with reverse arch. METHODS: Between May 2009 and February 2012, 13 cases of cervical spinal canal stenosis with reverse arch underwen…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinical features and the prevalence of symptoms of post-concussion syndrome in children with mild traumatic brain injury, and to evaluate their changes over time. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The research involved two groups of 4-16 year-old children: the case group of 301 children who had expe…

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to expansion of telepsychiatry services and formulation of telemedicine guidelines. However, the telemedicine guidelines are not very clear about psychiatric emergencies, such as suicidal behaviour, resulting in psychiatrists facing dilemma about handling such situations. AIM:…

OBJECTIVE: To ascertain the relationship between periods of various antiretroviral therapies and the incidence of first community-acquired pneumococcal pneumonia (CAPP) among HIV-1 infected patients. METHODS: We analysed 4075 patients enrolled prospectively in the Lyon section of the French Hospital Database on HIV be…

OBJECTIVES: Assess incidence of conductive hearing loss, ear pathology, and associated communicative disorders in cleft palate patients. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective chart review of 101 patients all treated at a tertiary facility since birth. RESULTS: The median patient age was 19 years old (range 8-25) at last follow…

Emergency nurses at the south London hospital that serves Wimbledon treated an influx of tennis fans suffering the effects of heatstroke last week. St George's in Tooting reported that the numbers were up on previous years.