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Adjuvant temozolomide: how long and how much?

Abortion: how early, how late, and how legal?

Of all the sociomedical questions of our time, none is more frequently and hotly debated than abortion. Until now the debate has mostly been about the morality of abortion and whether the grounds for medical termination are too lax or too restrictive, either in theory or in practice. A lawyer who intervenes to ask "but what do you mean by 'abortion' ?" might be dismissed by all sides as quibbli...

Aging, Pensions and Long-term Care: What, Why, Who, How?; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan”

Japan has been aging faster than other industrialized nations, and its experience offers useful lessons to others. Japan has been willing to expand its welfare state with a long-term care (LTC) insurance to finance home care and nursing home care for frail elderly. As Ikegami shows, it created new facilities and expanded specialized staffing for home care, developed a c...

How to Use Glutaraldehyde

 الهای متمادی است که سرویس های بهداشتی گلوتار آلدئید را بعنوان یک ماده استریل کننده برای وسایلی که نسبت به گرما حساس هستند مورد استفاده قرار می دهند. همزمان با افزایش تقاضا برای استفاده از اندوسکوپی، استفاده از گلوتار آلدئید و تماس با آن نیز افزایش یافته است. باید خاطر نشان ساخت گلوتار آلدئید می تواند سبب ایجاد حساسیت های پوستی، چشمی و تنفسی گردد که نهایتاً امکان دارد این حساسیت به آسم و رنیت آل...

Polymyalgia rheumatica and corticosteroids: how much for how long?

In a prospective study of 176 patients in whom polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) or giant cell arteritis (GCA) had been diagnosed between 1968 and 1980 the effect of corticosteroid treatment was studied. In those with PMR alone an initial regimen of 10 mg prednisolone daily and for the majority of those with GCA 20 mg daily were adequate to control symptoms. No patient suffered a serious disease com...