Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) reflects a time averaged blood glucose during the previous 2–3 months, and is used as the gold standard for long-term follow-up of glycemic control. The same HbA1c method was used both in the DCCT study published in 1993 (1) and the UKPDS study published in 1998 (2). Following the development of a true reference method by IFCC (3), it was stated in an international consen...

Aim: To compare the effect of single rhomboid and double rhomboid frontalis suspension using 2 mm silicon band on upper lid contour in ptosis surgery. Methods: This randomized control study was conducted at the Department of Ophthalmology, Nishtar Hospital, Multan from March 2011 to March 2014. A total of 40 patients with unilateral ptosis were included in the study. Patients were divided into ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of early treatment for amblyopia in children. DESIGN Follow up of outcomes of treatment for amblyopia in a randomised controlled trial comparing intensive orthoptic screening at 8, 12, 18, 25, 31, and 37 months (intensive group) with orthoptic screening at 37 months only (control group). SETTING Avon, southwest England. PARTICIPANTS 3490 children who ...

When a person is stalked, a common reaction is to consult an expert for the answers to several key questions: Is the stalker dangerous? How can I get the stalker to stop the behavior? What should I do to protect myself? Although certain risk factors are associated with an increased likelihood of violence, care must be taken in using risk factors to predict violence, because there are many excep...

Received: 19 November 2016 Accepted: 12 December 2016 c © 2016 The Author(s), licensee Magdi Yacoub Institute. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY-4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Cite this article as: Kashef MA, Giugliano G. Leg...

Many techniques for management of hypertrophic scars and keloids have been proven through extensive use, but few have been supported by prospective studies with adequate control groups. Several new therapies showed good results in small-scale trials, but these have not been repeated in larger trials with long-term follow-up. This article reports a qualitative overview of the available clinical ...

Osteochondral injury of the trochlea is a rare lesion of the articular surface of the ulnohumeral joint. A number of cases involving the humeral trochlea of adolescent throwing athletes have been reported in the Englishlanguage literature. In the last decade, elbow arthroscopy has evolved to become an accepted technique for the treatment of elbow osteochondral lesions. This is the first report ...

We conducted a cross-sectional survey of abortion facilities from professional networks in the United States (US, n = 703) and Canada (n = 94) to estimate the prevalence of medication abortion practices in these settings and to look at regional differences. Administrators responded to questions on gestational limits, while up to five clinicians per facility reported on 2012 medication abortion ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to explore women's views of the design of a large pragmatic cost-effectiveness randomised controlled trial of the policy of offering a health professional-delivered intervention to promote early presentation with breast symptoms in older women and thereby improve survival, with a view to informing protocol development. The trial will recruit over 100,000...

Method 20 pediatric (12 male and 8 female) patients, with mean age of 8.5 having severe persistent allergic asthma, with recurrent exacerbations and on oral/IV steroids, prospectively received Omalizumab 150mg/300mg, depending on IgE & body weight for 6 month to 1 year,at B.R.Singh Hospital, Kolkata. Number of exacerbations, total dose of oral Steroids, use of rescue medications, ICS/LABA dose ...