Abstract Introduction Many hospitals include gentamicin as part of prescribing protocols for clinical situations such bacterial septicemia and urinary tract infections. High doses can lead to nephrotoxicity and/or auditory dysfunction. To prevent this, most hospital guidelines advise adjust dosing according age, renal function if the patient is overweight. With therefore quite a complex protoco...

BACKGROUND Refugees may arrive for resettlement with asymptomatic parasitic infections, and eosinophilia may be the only clue to the presence of infection. Our aim was to determine the prevalence of eosinophilia and develop a standardized approach to the evaluation of asymptomatic refugees with eosinophilia. METHODS We reviewed the medical records of refugees seen from October 1998 through Ma...

BACKGROUND C-Reactive protein (CRP) is a risk marker for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. In youth, limited data are available on the distribution of high-sensitivity CRP as well as on its association with components of the metabolic syndrome. METHODS In 1999, we conducted a school-based survey of a representative sample of youths 9, 13, and 16 years of age in the province of Queb...

The tissue source of type I collagen is critical to ensure scalability and regulation-friendly clinical translation new medical device prototypes. However, the selection a commercial that fulfils both aforementioned requirements compliant with manufacturing routes challenging. This study investigates effect extracted from three different mammalian tissues has on molecular macroscopic characteri...

BACKGROUND Injury has been identified as a major health problem in China. Different quantitative measures based on the concept of years of potential life lost have been derived for assessing the burden of injury and other diseases. However, few studies have been conducted to compare the usefulness of these measures in terms of providing practical information. This study aims to examine the util...

We determined the nutritional status of children less than five years of age in an area in rural western Kenya with intense malaria transmission, a high prevalence of severe anemia and human immunodeficiency virus, and high infant and under-five mortality (176/1,000 and 259/1,000). No information is available on the prevalence of malnutrition in this area. Three cross-sectional surveys were con...

BACKGROUND The relationships between chronic productive cough (CPC), environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure, and asthma are not clearly established in children. Therefore, we wished to determine the prevalence of CPC and examine the relationships between CPC, ETS exposure, and asthma in young teenagers. METHODS We performed a cross sectional survey of 2397 Seattle middle school students, ...

This paper proposes to analyse models of corporate governance applied to businesses listed in the stock markets of the Iberian Peninsula, namely the ones of Lisbon and Madrid. The corporate governance subject is becoming increasingly important for businesses as it is difficult to manage the interests of every economic agents related to an organization. The corporate governance is characterized ...

Purpose. The aim of this study is: 1) to report the incidence of diabetic retinopathy in a group of 85 IDDM patients with normal fundi at the first control, observed for a period of 10 years; 2) to verify if the long-term follow-up of ERG oscillatory potentials (OPs) can be useful lo detect the onset of the early diabetic retinopathy (DR). Methods. The patients were submitted to one control per...