cc This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A 22-year-old man presented with low-grade fever and hemoptysis of four month duration, a...

Mate choice by males has been documented in many taxa including fruit flies (Drosophila spp.). It is still unclear, however, whether male mate choice varies much with age and one cannot readily predict the direction of change in male choosiness with age. We compared mate choice in young (1 day old) and mature (4 days old) male fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster). Young males spent much less t...

Ecstasy (MDMA) use increased rapidly in the U.S. between about 1995 and 2001. Most research on the drug focused on its psychopharmacological and public health contexts. Previous research on drugs-crime linkages suggests that there may have been a concommitant rise in ecstasy-related crimes. We explore this dimension here using data from 7794 arrested men, age 16 to 25, in the 2001 Arrestee Drug...

This work is mainly aimed to analyze the meaning given by young men to masculinity. By this analysis, discussions involving integral attention to them in health care field can advance. Our methodology is characterized by case study under the social sciences perspective and with hermeneutic-dialectical approach involving 19 male youngsters aged 15 to 17. About the observed results, young men ass...

We report a case of dengue myocarditis involving young male athlete with good recovery. A 14 year-old gentleman presented with a 5-day fever with chest discomfort and typical viral fever presentation. His preliminary diagnosis of dengue fever was confirmed via positive non-structural protein-1 and the ensuing polymerase chain reaction (PCR) confirmed dengue virus serotype DEN 1. He had myocardi...

A 25-year old male presented with a 3 year history of recurrent spontaneously remitting swelling of any of his limbs and appearance of painful cord-like structures over different areas of the swollen limbs which would also resolve spontaneously. The patient also complained of pain in his lower limbs upon walking which had increased in severity over past one year. Clinical examination revealed a...

T he Emergency Medical Service (EMS) crew was asked to attend to a 40 year old man, after he suddenly lost consciousness in the midst of a family get together at his home. On arrival, the EMS crew found him to be unresponsive and pulseless. The initial ‘‘paddles on’’ electrocardiogram (ECG) showed ventricular fibrillation and patient was successfully cardioverted. (two direct current shocks: 20...

HIV prevention strategies among couples include condom use, mutual monogamy, and HIV testing. Research suggests that condom use is more likely with new or casual partners, and tends to decline as relationships become steady over time. Little is known, however, about explicit mutual monogamy agreements and HIV testing within heterosexual couples. This study used data from 434 young heterosexual ...

Citation Mody, Gita N, Vincent Mutabazi, Danielle R Zurovcik, Jean Paul Bitega, Sabin Nsanzimana, Sardis H Harward, Claire M Wagner, Cameron T Nutt, and Agnes Binagwaho. 2015. “Design, testing, and scale-up of medical devices for global health: negative pressure wound therapy and non-surgical male circumcision in Rwanda.” Globalization and Health 11 (1): 20. doi:10.1186/s12992-015-0101-4. http:...

Two objective measures of human cochlear tuning, using stimulus-frequency otoacoustic emissions (SFOAE), have been proposed. One measure used SFOAE phase-gradient delay and the other two-tone suppression (2TS) tuning curves. Here, it is hypothesized that the two measures lead to different frequency functions in the same listener. Two experiments were conducted in ten young adult normal-hearing ...