HIV and Malaria remain two of the greatest risks of global health, accounting for massive morbidity and mortality rates. These diseases are of greatest prevalence in low-income and tropical areas, and overlap most significantly in Sub-Saharan Africa. This is a review of the interactions between these infections, and their treatments.

Methodology: The Injury severity Score (ISS) is the default world standard for assessing the severity of multiple injuries. ISS is a mathematical fit to empirical field data. It is demonstrated that ISS is proportional to the Gibbs/Shannon Entropy. A new Entropy measure of morbidity from blunt force trauma including co-morbidities is derived based on the von Neumann Entropy, called the Abbrevia...

Method: During a one-year period, 30 patients with Tourette disorder were studied at an adolescent psychiatry referral clinic. It was an analytical-descriptive study. Subjects were selected by convenience sampling. The control group was selected from students in Tehran schools similar to the first group in terms of age and gender. K-SADS questionnaire was used to examine the existence of obsess...

BACKGROUND The metabolic syndrome is a group of risk factors predictive of cardiovascular diseases. The rising number of obese Americans has increased the prevalence of metabolic syndrome. This study investigated the hypothesis that the incidence of metabolic syndrome is decreased after laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery. METHODS The charts of all patients who had undergone laparoscopic gast...

Problematic Internet use [PIU], or Internet addiction, is characterized by excessive use, impairment, or distress as result of the use of the internet. Early studies by Young [1] Griffiths, [2,3] and Aboujaoude [4] defined this disorder and included extensive research on it. The condition has attracted increasing attention in the popular media and among researchers, and this increase in attenti...

AIMS To assess co-morbidity and risk factors for otitis media, tonsillopharyngitis, and lower respiratory infections in school children. METHODS Logistic regression analysis of co-morbidity and risk factors for airway infections in a population based sample of 10 year old children living in Oslo, Norway. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES otitis media, tonsillopharyngitis, and lower respiratory infectio...

Purpose: To d eterm ine the p attern and p revalence of other ocu lar p roblem s seen in p atients w ith refractive errors in a N igerian teaching hosp ital. Methods: A retrosp ective hosp ital-based review of all consecu tive p atients w ho p resented w ith signs and sym p tom s of refractive errors at the Obafem i Aw olow o University Teaching H osp itals Com p lex betw een 1 Janu ary 2007 an...

Background: Despite the global efforts to control tuberculosis, it remains a common, life-threatening infectious disease. Tuberculosis can lead to hypercoagulability, increased venous stasis, and endothelial dysfunction, thus increasing the susceptibility to venous thromboembolism (VTE). However, few studies have assessed the epidemiology of the association between tuberculosis and VTE. We rece...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Neuropathic pain (NeuP) associated with traumatic brachial plexus injury (BPI) can be severe, persistent, and resistant to treatment. Moreover, comorbidity associated with NeuP may worsen the pain and quality of life. This study compared persistent NeuP after BPI between patients with and without co-morbid conditions (psychiatric dysfunction and other painful conditions) ...