The PanAfrican Acupuncture Project (PAAP) was created in 2001 and is a volunteer-based not-for-profit training organization. It encourages community empowerment and wellness through training local healthcare providers how to use simple, effective acupuncture protocols to treat the symptoms of HIV/ AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and other chronic conditions. A manual explains the theory of acupunc...

OBJECTIVE This was a prospective, randomized, open-label study controlled by active comparator. The aim was to assess analgesic efficacy and overall tolerability of a burn treatment based on topic administration of unfractionated heparin. METHODS Fifty eight male or female patients were randomized for conventional treatment (group C) or topical heparin treatment (group TH). Ages of patients e...

SINCE the middle of the 1990s, most neurotrauma centres have followed the guidelines or recommendations put forward by the US Traumatic Coma databank (1), the European brain trauma consortium (2) or some local protocols such as the Addenbrooke algorithm (3), for the treatment of severe brain trauma. Even though these guidelines differ in details, they include essentially the same therapeutic co...

Organic agricultural systems are often assumed to be more sustainable than conventional farming, yet there has been little work comparing surface water quality from organic and conventional production, especially under the same cropping sequence. Our objective was to compare nutrient and sediment losses, as well as sweet corn ( L. var. ) yield, from organic and conventional production with conv...

INTRODUCTION Veterinary care of cows on organic dairy farms may be influenced by the USDA regulations that govern organic management standards (USDA, 2011). U.S. organic standards contain a unique and rigorous prohibition against use of most conventional allopathic veterinary treatments (USDA, 2011). There are no FDA approved antimicrobials on the USDA list of approved organic treatments and FD...

BACKGROUND The aim of the study was to evaluate the outcome of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) in patients with a previous malignancy (sAML) treated with chemo- and/or radiotherapy, enrolled in conventional trials. PATIENTS AND METHODS In a multicentre setting, a prospective non-concurrent analysis was performed on 2513 new AML patients, aged 12-78 years, consecutively enrolled in EORTC-GIMEMA ...

Immunobiology Division, Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation, Raritan, NJ; Oregon Health Sciences University, Division of Nephrology, Portland, OR; St. Francis Regional Medical Center, Departli1ent of Surgery, Wichita, KS; Hopital Necker, Departement de Nephrologie, Paris, France; Johns Hopkins Hospital, Di vi si on of Transpl antation/Vascul ar Surgery, Baltimore, MD; Yale University School of Med...

The experiments were conducted at Green Acres Agronomy farm near Gainesville, Florida, on an Arredondo loamy sand, a member of the loamy, silicious, hyperthermic family of grossarenic Paleudults. The field study started in 1976 included cropping systems of oat (Avena sativa)/soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) versus oat/grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) that were split plots of four tillage treatm...

Cancer represents an important public health challenge worldwide due to the continuous increase of its incidence. The general prognosis is more and more favourable with new treatments which allow long survival. Chemotherapeutical treatments affect the patients, one of the most important issues being represented by cardiotoxicity, which is low responsive to conventional treatments and finally wi...

Herbal medicine has become a popular form of healthcare. Even though several differences exist between herbal and conventional pharmacological treatments, herbal medicine can be tested for efficacy using conventional trial methodology. Several specific herbal extracts have been demonstrated to be efficacious for specific conditions. Even though the public is often misled to believe that all nat...