Human coenurosis in North America: case reports and review.

A Review on Chenopodium botrys L.: traditional uses, chemical composition and biological activities

Chenopodium botrys L. is native to Europe and Asia and adventive in much of North America. The plant has been used traditionally for medicinal purposes; generally, these therapeutic uses and health benefits of C. botrys are largely based on folklore rather than on scientific substantiation, making it a good candidate to gather documentations, including the phytochemical content, in vitro experi...

Disseminated human subarachnoid coenurosis: computed tomographic appearance.

A single, fatal case of disseminated subarachnoid coenurosis in an infant is presented to illustrate the computed tomographic (CT) findings. The larval stage of Multiceps multiceps (dog tapeworm) is always confined to the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pathways where the cysts may be imaged with CT. Previous reports of this rare human infestation do not include high-resolution CT [1-5]. Standard CT ...

Modeling North America Energy Demand By Sectors (Residential-Commercial And Transportation)

Global Problem of Hospital Detention Practices

Although an official definition by the World Health Organization (WHO) or any other authority is currently lacking, hospital detention practices (HDP) can be described as: “refusing release of either living patients after medical discharge is clinically indicated or refusing release of bodies of deceased patients if families are unable to pay their hospital bills.” Reports of HDP are very scarc...

Paleontology, paleogeography and Paleoenvironment of the Paleocene benthic foraminiferal species of Plummer in the Tethys; a review

Forty two Paleocene benthic foraminiferal species of the Midway Formation in the Gulf Coastal Plain of Texas, USA were firstly investigated by Plummer (1927), and its paleogeographic distribution in some other countries in the Tethyan province were recorded: North America (USA, Mexico), South America (Argentina), Europe (North Sea Basin, Spain, France, Italy, Czech Republic, Bulgaria), North Af...