Cephalosporin, along with penicillin, are among the least harmful antibiotics. It is widely prescribed for common infections such as bronchitis, otitis media, pneumonia and cellulitis. A contraindication this agent a history of penicillin allergy, due to possible cross-reactions hypersensitivity cephalosporin. Hypersensitivity reactions can occur in any mode administration almost all cephalospo...

OBJECTIVES Hypovitaminosis D is very common in the elderly in Italy and generally in the world, contributing to bone fractures and muscle weakness. The aim of the study was to evaluate bone metabolism in an old population of patients hospitalized not for musculo-skeletal complaints. METHODS The clinical records of 175 patients, 98 female and 77 male, aged >65 years, hospitalized in a Departme...

Volume 28, Number 1, March 2002 Policymakers often ask how high fertility and related demographic variables affect and are affected by poverty. The popular view in the 1960s and 1970s—that fertility decline would slow population growth in developing countries and thus reduce poverty—came in for a great deal of criticism in the 1980s, and by the 1990s, it was no longer in vogue. The alternative ...

Due to their star formation history (SFH), the stellar population in Dwarf Galaxies (DG) is likely to have a metallicity spread which is best traced by the morphology of the Red Giant Branch (RGB). We probe here a purely empirical approach aimed at estimating average metallicity (Z) and Z spread by comparing the Color-Magnitude Diagrams (CMD) of galactic Globular Clusters (GCs) with those of tw...

The paucity of old isolated accreting neutron stars in ROSAT observations is used to derive a lower limit on the mean velocity of neutron stars at birth. The secular evolution of the population is simulated following the paths of a statistical sample of stars for different values of the initial kick velocity, drawn from an isotropic Gaussian distribution with mean velocity 0 ≤ V ≤ 550 km s −1. ...

This research is concerned with patterns of mortality and related risk conditions among noninstitutionalized recipients of old-age assistance. Survival status was determined by followup interviews in the 1974 Survey of the Low Income Aged and Disabled. Data obtained in initial interviews a year earlier were used as antecedent variables in the analysis. The general hypothesis that the overall de...

People aged 90 and older are the fastest growing age group in most parts of the world. Since the prevalence of dementia has been shown to increase exponentially after the age of 65, there is an acceptance that the oldest old population has a high burden of dementia; however, there is a lack of consensus on how best to diagnose dementia in this population. This review summarizes the various appr...

Editorial – Chinese population challenges: fewer girls, more old people • A rapid slowdown in population growth p. 1 • The proportion of over-65s should double in the next 25 years p. 2 • More boys than girls p.3 • From the threat of growth... to the problem of ageing p. 4 C N TE N TS duction. There were fewer births in those years and mortality was exceptionally high. After a return to normal ...

BACKGROUND Population ageing has significant effects on societies. The organization of care for dependent old people is one of the key issues for ageing societies. The majority of care for homebound dependent old people in Slovenia is still performed by informal carers, even though the use of formal services has been increasing over the last 20 years. The proportion and characteristics of peopl...