Objectives. We examined association between incidence rate of low birth weight in liveborn infants and maternal sociodemographic status in Tuzla Canton during 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Methods. The present study covers a 22-year period (1988-2009), including the war period (1992-1995), and we retrospectively collected data on a total of 108 316 liveborn infants and their mothers ...

Background: Five-year survival is an important metric for progress in cancer control broadly used both in the cancer literature and by the public. In order to assess its validity and relation to other common metrics, we analyzed the relationship between 5-year survival, incidence and mortality using publicly available cancer registry data from England and Wales. Methods: Five-year survival, inc...

The life history and breeding activity of the supralittoral amphipod, Platorchestia monodi (Mateus et al. 1986) were studied. amphipods sampled from Garmat-Ali region, Basrah, over period 26th August 1993-28th January 1995. Random samples taken on a monthly basis. mostly abundant under drifted aquatic plants (wrack), which providing food shelter.Sexual maturity occurred in males at size 5.25 mm...

Background To evaluate the association between home-based neonatal care interventions and incidence of maternal health conditions as well to estimate longitudinal trend over 13 years in 39 villages field program area from rural Gadchiroli, India. Methods This was a before-after comparative analysis implemented thirty-nine The newborn were incrementally introduced during trial (1995 – 1998) cont...

served as an Assistant Attorney General and Director of the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement since September 1994. At the time of his appointment, he was serving in the General Assembly of New Jersey. Gary A. Ehrlich is a Deputy Attorney General with the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement. He presently serves as Supervising Attorney of the Division's Casino Entity Licensing Sect...

Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN) is a chronic tubulointerstitial renal disease of a still unknown etiology, associated with an increased frequency of urothelial carcinoma, particularly of the upper urinary tract (UUT). The aim of the study was to compare the occurrence of UUT carcinomas between Brodsko-Posavska Region (BPR) which is the region with endemic villages and the non-endemic region of...

OBJECTIVE To describe the behavior of breast cancer (BC)during the 1962-2012 period from information provided by the Cali Cancer Registry and the Municipal Health Secretariat of Cali. MATERIALS AND METHODS The incidence trend (1962-2007) and mortality trend (1984-2012) for breast cancer was studied and relative survival (RS)(1995-2004) was estimated. Age-standardized incidence and mortality r...

BACKGROUND Tumours of the central nervous system (CNS) account for 15-20% of all malignant childhood tumours in developed countries. Steady improvement of survival of children with CNS tumours has been reported for the past decades. However, these results, obtained by cohort analysis of survival, do not reflect the full extent of recent improvement. METHODS Using selected registries from the ...

I read with interest the recent publication(1) on this subject. Since Kalawati Saran Childrens Hospital is a sentinel centre for surveillance of Poliomyelitis, covering the states of Delhi, UP, MP and HP, the figures are reliable and informative. It is heartening to note that the occurrence of poliomyelitis in these states has reduced to 369 cases in 1996 from 1062 cases in 1994. Does this figu...