BACKGROUND Although Black and Hispanic young adults in the U.S. are less likely than Whites to move out of the parental home and more likely than Whites to return, reasons for these differences have not been clearly identified. OBJECTIVE This study examines the ability of racial/ethnic disparities in life course transitions, socioeconomic resources, and family connectivity to account for raci...

  Purpose: Mesh technique is the standard for inguinal hernia repair because of less recurrence,   but it is inferior or equal to sutured technique in case of other post-operative complications   such as chronic pain. This clinical trial set out to compare these two techniques.   Materials and Methods: A total number of 322 cases of unilateral inguinal hernia in participants   older than 18 yea...

BACKGROUND To explore the perspectives of nursing home (NH) residents with diabetes and their doctors regarding the burdens of living with diabetes and diabetes treatments. METHODS Qualitative study of nursing home residents aged 65 and older with diabetes (n = 14) and nursing home physicians (n = 9) at a Department of Veterans Affairs nursing home (known as the Community Living Center). A se...

Leaving the parental home is a milestone in young people's transition to adulthood. The timing of leaving varies greatly across European countries; however, evidence on association between socioeconomic status (SES) and age at comparative perspective mixed, subnational variation has received little attention. module life events included Round 3 (2006) 9 (2018) Social Survey offers opportunity s...

Background: Radioactive iodine is widely used for the treatment of various thyroid disorders. Safety issues are often a source of worry and anxiety for the patients, their families and comforters. The patients are advised to restrict their social and work related activities. The work presented in this study describes the results of a structured survey conducted on patients visiting our hospital...

formation of the ilkhanid rule and conversion of hulagu to buddhism let buddhists to participate in ilkhanid rule. buddhists hadnot any role in iranian politics before, and this was seen as a permission to them to take part in the statecraft. after this, many buddhists migrated from china, tibet, and the uyghurestan to iran. they built some temples which sought to convert people to buddhism. so...

Open Access Despite the fact that there is no dearth of talent in Pakistan, our contributions to medical literature and research is very negligible as compared to other Muslim countries like Islamic Republic of Iran, Turkey and even Saudi Arabia. Even our neighboring countries like India and Bangladesh have made tremendous progress during the last two decades but our performance in this field l...

Japan has been aging faster than other industrialized nations, and its experience offers useful lessons to others. Japan has been willing to expand its welfare state with a long-term care (LTC) insurance to finance home care and nursing home care for frail elderly. As Ikegami shows, it created new facilities and expanded specialized staffing for home care, developed a c...