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Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is a result of the sudden discontinuation of fetal exposure to substances that were used or abused by the mother during pregnancy. Withdrawal from licit or illicit substances is becoming more common among neonates in both developed and developing countries. NAS continues to be an important clinical entity throughout much of the world. NAS leads to a constellat...

Submitted by: Hui Wu, MD, Yuan Hu, MD, PhD, Xiaoru Shi, MD, PhD, Hui Jia, MD, PhD. From the Department of Ophthalmology (Wu, Shi, Jia), First Hospital, Jilin University, Changchun, China, and the Department of Pathology (Hu), Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA. Address correspondence to: Prof. Hui Jia, Department of Ophthalmology, First Hospital, Jilin University, 71, Xinmin Street, ...

BACKGROUND Crack use is prevalent among street drug users in Brazilian cities, yet despite recent help system reforms and investments, treatment utilization is low. Other studies have identified a variety of - often inconsistent - factors associated with treatment status among crack or other drug users. This study compared socio-economic, drug use, health and service use characteristics between...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the frequency of occult depressive symptoms in adolescent emergency department (ED) patients (aged 13-17 years) and to determine patient characteristics associated with depressive symptoms. DESIGN A cross-sectional study of adolescent ED patients. SETTING The pediatric ED of Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the EDs of the Children's Hospit...

 Although the evidence about rates of HIV transmission among streetinvolved youth is unclear, this group is at risk of sexually transmitted bloodborne infections due to factors such as their age, socioeconomic status, housing status and engagement in higher risk behaviours (1).  There is limited evidence about HIV prevalence among street-involved youth in Ontario. However, HIV prevalence with...

Antioxidant drugs and the inhibition of low-density lipoprotein oxidation Emma S. R. Green, Chris E. Cooper*, Michael J. Daviest and Catherine Rice-Evans Free Radical Research Group, Division of Biochemistry, UMDS-Guy's Hospital, Thomas's Street, London SE I 9RT, *Division of Biomolecular Sciences, King's College London, Campden Hill Road, London W8 7AH and +Department of Chemistry, University ...