The treatment of carbuncles is early administration of antibiotics and surgery. The commonest surgical approaches are saucerization, and incision and drainage (I&D). Although these two techniques are vastly different, there is a lack of evidence to determine which one produces a better outcome. Three cases of carbuncles are presented to illustrate the contrasting surgical techniques and their r...

In an attempt to investigate the structures of ultra-relativistic jets injected into intracluster medium (ICM) and associated flow dynamics, such as shocks, velocity shear, turbulence, we have developed a new special relativistic hydrodynamic (RHD) code in Cartesian coordinates, based on weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) scheme. It is finite difference scheme high spatial accuracy, wh...

In this case study of a unique instance, the effects of non-invasive generated shockwaves onto the skin and the underlying fat tissue of a cellulite-afflicted, 52-year-old woman were investigated. The treatment was applied at the lateral thighs once per week for a period of 10 weeks. Diagnostic high-resolution ultrasound (Esaote 25 Gold® device with 15–18 MHz linear probe), thermography (Thermo...

Dye-decolorizing peroxidase (DyP) of Auricularia auricula-judae has been expressed in Escherichia coli as a representative of a new DyP family, and subjected to mutagenic, spectroscopic, crystallographic and computational studies. The crystal structure of DyP shows a buried haem cofactor, and surface tryptophan and tyrosine residues potentially involved in long-range electron transfer from bulk...

PURPOSE Various antibiotics are available to treat soft-tissue infections. However, it is unclear if the empirical antibiotic is always appropriate or the most economical. OBJECTIVE To determine the percentage of empirically treated wounds susceptible to the antibiotic therapy prescribed, and to determine the percentage of wounds treated with the most economical antibiotic therapy. METHODS ...

BACKGROUND Although testicular cancer is the most common cancer among 18- to 50-year-old males, healthcare providers seldom teach testicular self-examination techniques to clients, thus potentially missing opportunities for early detection. This form of cancer is easily diagnosable by testicular self-examination and is 96% curable if detected early. Periodic self-examination must be performed f...

BACKGROUND Vitis heyneana is widely distributed in the north of Vietnam, it has been used in Vietnamese traditional medicine as an agent for treatment of arthritis, bronchitis, carbuncles and inflammatory conditions, and menstrual irregularities. However, this plant has not been investigated in phytochemical constituents and biological effects, especially in the anti-inflammatory property. RE...

Tremendous progress has been made in the past decade in the development of new disease-preventing agents. Foremost among such agents arc penicillin and strc^ptomycin, both of microbial origin. Other antibiotic substances of siinilar origin, such as chloromycetin^ aurcomycin, and terramycin^ are becoming especially valuable. Still others, including bacitracin, subtilin, ]:>olymyxin, and circulin...