In Bangladesh, use of modern contraceptive methods has increased dramatically in the last decade. However, the level of use has not been the same between rural clusters. This dissertation investigates the plausible reasons for areal variations in use of modern contraception in rural Bangladesh. This study randomly selects sixteen rural clusters as sub-samples from the 1991 Contraceptive Prevale...

A patient with a severe kyphotic deformity presented for Stereotactic radiosurgery. In the supine position with the apex of the patient's kyphosis on the treatment couch, his head and buttocks were found to be approximately 30 cm from the table. Pretreatment consultation with the physicist and engineer was arranged. By creating a modified table mount for the head ring and a custommolded Styrofo...

The localizing and lateralizing values of eye and head ictal deviations during frontal lobe seizures are still matters of debate. In particular, no specific data regarding the origin of ipsilateral head turning in frontal lobe seizures are available. We report a patient with frontal lobe seizures associated with reproducible, early, ipsilateral head deviation, where imaging and video-stereo-ele...

Cataract.?I enclose herewith a table (Table I) showing the total number of operations for senile cataract undertaken at the three in-door dispensaries in this district, with the number successful and percentage of successes taken from the records for the year 1891-1900. As regards this table there is little to say except that possibly more difficult cases were attempted at the Head-Quarter disp...

The turtle posterior crista consists of two hemicristae. Each hemicrista extends from the planum semilunatum to the nonsensory torus and includes a central zone (CZ) surrounded by a peripheral zone (PZ). Type I and type II hair cells are found in the CZ and are innervated by calyx, dimorphic and bouton afferents. Only type II hair cells and bouton fibers are found in the PZ. Units were intraaxo...

During the pandemic, AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine was able to raise its profile attract attention of policymakers other stakeholders. In past year, organization has continued make inroads on a variety issues gain advocacy momentum. At PALTC23’s Saturday general session, Milta Little, DO, CMD, Society’s 2023-2024 president, noted, “We don’t just want seat at tabl...

Middle cerebral artery (MCA) blood flow velocity was measured daily by transcranial Doppler ultrasonography in 121 patients with severe (50), moderate (16) and minor (55) head injury during their hospital stay, and the results compared with findings in control subjects. Admission MCA velocity was significantly lower after severe 35.8 (31.9-39.7) cm/s, mean (95% confidence limits), moderate 45.5...