Asthma is a common disease in young children and is associated with significant morbidity and an increasing prevalence over time. Early childhood wheezing and asthma are heterogeneous disorders; thus identifying phenotypes of asthma remains a goal to identify high-risk children who might benefit from specific therapies or secondary prevention interventions. The typical pattern of illness in pre...

Governments across the globe are facing the challenges posed by ageing population. Diabetes is one of the leading causes of disease burden to the economies. A proactive management of diabetes for the elderly can offer benefits to all the stakeholders. Mobile Health (mHealth) can play a vital role to tackle the complexities associated with aged people who are living independently. While there ha...

Corresponding author: Sungsik Park, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Samduk-2 ga, Joong-gu, Daegu 700-721, Korea. Tel: 82-53-420-5863, Fax: 82-53-426-2760, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.o...

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are generated by normal metabolic processes or from exogenous insults and chemical agents. They are capable of damaging essential biomolecules and accelerating cancer, cardiovascular diseases and neurodegenerative diseases. In the present study, the antioxidant role of Terminalia chebula aqueous extract was evaluated against age-related oxidative stress in heart ...

BACKGROUND up to 80% of residents in aged care facilities (ACFs) experience pain, and previous studies have found that older patients with pain are often undertreated. Few studies have been conducted in Australia evaluating the use of analgesic therapy in ACF residents. OBJECTIVE to explore the use of analgesics among ACF residents, including independent predictors of analgesic use, evaluate ...

Humans are one. They belong to a single species. They have a long history. Even in prehistoric times there were migrations, near and distant, all over the world. Seas, rivers, lakes, mountains, deserts and forests have not been able to deter human beings moving from one place to another. Come to think of it, migrations of people like the Jarawa (a classic food-gathering and hunting Negrito grou...

Aged horses are at risk for pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (PPID), and insulin dysregulation (hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance) is an underlying problem in some animals. Hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance are exacerbated by PPID, and this increases the risk of laminitis. It is therefore recommended that all aged horses be screened for PPID and hyperinsulinemia and the magnitu...

Longleaf pine once was present on 90 million acres of the southern landscape, ranging from coastal Virginia to east Texas and from central Florida to the mountains of Alabama. On nearly two-thirds of that area, longleaf pine grew in nearly pure (single-species) stands maintained by frequent, low-intensity surface fires of both natural and human origin. The remaining one-third of that area was s...