Objectives: Home delivery of counselling and safety devices to prevent child injuries could help parents to adopt safe behaviour. The aim of this study was to test a safety kit designed and used in Quebec (Canada). Design and subjects: One hundred families from four towns in the Paris suburbs were visited at home by nurses or doctors when their child reached 6–9 months. Selection criteria were:...

BACKGROUND Melanoma causes the greatest morbidity and mortality of all skin cancers. Mucosal melanoma is a rare but highly aggressive neoplasm. According to previous studies the prevalence of KIT mutations in acral lentiginous and mucosal melanomas is relatively low (less than 15-20%), but it can have profound therapeutic implications for localized high risk or metastatic diseases. Our goal was...

Diabetes mellitus is a disease or metabolic disorder that increasing year by year, characterized high blood sugar levels as result of insulin function insufficiency. mellitus, which often referred to diabetes, Treatment using drugs. Currently, treatment herbal medicine being developed, one Kayu kuning, where in previous studies it was found the roots kuning can reduce glucose levels. This has t...

 We study feature engineering and feature selection related to a clinical research application -automatically discovering the patient’s disease activity from the electronic medical records. Different feature representations of clinical documents such as user specified terms, Unified Medical Language System Concept Unique Identifiers, bag of words, and bigram features are compared with filter-b...

OBJECTIVE To describe a technique for contained power morcellation within an insufflated isolation bag at the time of uterine specimen removal during minimally invasive gynecologic procedures. METHODS Over the study period of January 2013 to April 2014, 73 patients underwent morcellation of the uterus or myomas within an insufflated isolation bag at the time of minimally invasive hysterectomy...

When Does the Bag of Waters Usually Break? Usually the bag of waters breaks just before you go into labor or during the early part of labor. It happens often when you are in bed sleeping. You may wake up and think you have wet the bed. Sometimes women feel or even hear a small “pop” when the bag breaks. Sometimes there is a gush of fluid from the vagina that makes your underwear wet; or maybe j...

BAG-1 is a multifunctional protein that blocks apoptosis and interacts with several types of proteins, including Bcl-2 family proteins, the kinase Raf-1, certain tyrosine kinase growth factor receptors, and steroid hor mone receptors, possibly by virtue of its ability to regulate the Hsp70/ Hsc70 family of molecular chaperones. Two major forms of the human and mouse BAG-1 proteins were detected...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE As of November 1, 1997, automotive air-bag deployments occurring in low-speed collisions had resulted in the deaths of 49 children and in the serious injuries of 19 children in the United States. The purpose of this study was to investigate the patterns of injury occurring in this new mechanism of pediatric trauma. METHODS In search of common patterns of injury, three p...

This paper presents a laboratory kit for oscillometry blood pressure measurement. The laboratory kit was designed for research purposes in the field of medical technology. The presented device allows to show not only the calculated results (such as systolic and diastolic blood pressure and the heart rate) as standard devices, but also the raw signals. It means there is a possibility to study th...

The trauma room in a level I trauma center is a dynamic environment that provides little room for error. Significant variability can exist if anesthesia providers set up the room differently. Standardization provides a system that is consistent, reliable, and cost-effective. This study examines the process of creating and implementing a standardized anesthesia setup in the trauma room of a leve...