INTRODUCTION One reason for patients with cancer to use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is that their cancer cannot be cured by conventional therapy. The aim of the present study is to explore whether use of CAM is associated with survival prognosis in long-term survivors of cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cancer patients who were alive 5 years or more after diagnosis were chosen t...

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Young children's everyday scientific thinking often occurs in the context of parent-child interactions. In a study of naturally occurring family conversation, parents were three times more likely to explain science to boys than to girls while using interactive science exhibits in a museum. This difference in explanation occurred despite the fact that parents were equally likely to talk to their...

SUMMARY Fear of being sued for malpractice is often cited as one reason for the distressing trend of reduced physician participation in Medicaid and other publicly funded programs (8). Physicians in many specialties report practice changes in response to the threat of malpractice liability, including dropping services to medically " high-risk " patients. But the problem is particularly acute in...

Feedback is important in education. It is commonly believed that immediate feedback is very important. That is why instructors stay often late at night grading students’ assignments – to make sure that the students get their feedback as early as possible. However, surprisingly, experiments show that in many cases, delayed feedback is more efficient that the immediate one. In this paper, we prov...

received: 23/sep/2008, accepted: 23/nov/2008oct-4/ pou5f1/ oct-3, a pou domain family protein acts as a crucial transcription factor dur- ing embryonic development. it helps in maintenance of self renewal as well as pluripotential state of embryonic stem (es) cells. its expression starts right from 2 cell stage especially prior to 8 cell stage till the blastocyst stage where it is strongly exp...