Trends in Medication Usage in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Prescribing Trends or Trends in Prescribers?

Trends in medication usage in juvenile idiopathic arthritis: prescribing trends or trends in prescribers?

Trends in antibiotic prescribing.

Frischer et al., through analysis of the West Midlands General Practice Research Database, identify a reduction in antibiotic prescribing of 16 per cent between 1993 and 1997. They also demonstrate that this decline in antibiotic prescribing was concentrated in conditions such as respiratory tract infection. More recent data support a further fall in the overall prescribing of antibacterials by...

New Trends of Doping in Sport

Recent Trends in Archaeological Theory: Some Comments

 This paper selectively reviews some recent themes in archaeological theory:  a philosophical pragmatism, a turn to materiality, and understanding the past in the context of the present.  It concludes with some reflective comments on the author’s Archaeological Theory:  An Introduction, in advance of the third revised edition.

Changing trends in characteristics of infantile hydronephrosis

  Background : Hydronephrosis (HN) or calycial dilatation is the most common prenatal urologic abnormality. The aim of this study was to identify the possible changes in demographic and clinical manifestations of infantile HN in previously and recently diagnosed patients.   Methods : 193 children with infantile HN admitted to Ali-asghar Children's Hospital in two different periods (group 1 1997...