Four hundred and seventy eight (478) individuals who exhibited some manifestation of chronic and debilitating illness including persistent cough, skin cancer and dermatitis, multiple lymph adenitis, diarrhea and enteritis, genital sore, urethritis, vaginitis and weight loss, were examined to establish relationships between human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV) and digestive tract pathoge...

introduction and goal: today, the researchers have found that many recent diseases are due to cellular oxidative stress which is caused by the imbalance of the formation and neutralization of free radicals. including weak immune system, cancers, inflectional diseases, aging body and diabetes. diabetes is the most common endocrine disease in the world that is referred to as the mother of the dis...

OBJECTIVES To describe the pattern of malignancies among all patients with cancer recorded in Hadramout (East of Yemen) in 2006, and to explore the association with age, sex, and site of cancer. METHODS A retrospective descriptive study of all registered cancers (334) was carried out. Efforts were made to avoid case duplication. The neoplasms had been classified according to international cla...

OBJECTIVE The article assessed the overall mortality in Brazil in 2000 and 2010. METHODS Data source was the Mortality Information System from Ministry of Health of Brazil. RESULTS The data show the high rate of mortality among men compared to women between ages of 20 to 59 years and an expressive lower life expectancy by this population. The main groups of death were: external causes; dise...

From the Liver Disease Research Branch, Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (J.H.H.), and the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R.H.P.), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda; and the Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Bal...