Aesthetic surgery is, in the USA at least, no longer a taboo subject. Outside North America, public acceptance continues to grow as more procedures are performed each year. While there appears, anecdotally, to be a decrease in patients undergoing cosmetic treatments because of the global financial crisis, the overall trend remains upward. Although popular television programs espouse the benefit...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess the profile of the treatments performed at the physiotherapy department of the Brazilian Olympic Committee during the 2007 Pan-American Games. STUDY DESIGN Observational study. PARTICIPANTS AND DESIGN Participants in this study included 434 athletes from the Brazilian Olympic Committee who were referred by the Brazilian medical department to...

BACKGROUND We sought to analyze the trends in first Q-wave acute myocardial infarction (AMI) case fatality from 1978 to 2007 in a population-based hospital register, to determine the variables related to these changes, and to assess the effectiveness of current AMI management. METHODS Population-based hospital registry included patients with first Q-wave AMI aged 25 to 74 years admitted betwe...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is described as a situation in which the brain is damaged by an external force. It is considered to be a chief problem in health care. Pharmacotherapy and stem cell therapy are the main treatments used in TBI. The purpose of these procedures is to control the inflammation in injured regions of brain. Currently, there is no effective care for TBI that could regenerat...

BACKGROUND CONTEXT Radiofrequency denervation is commonly used for the treatment of chronic facet joint pain that has been refractory to more conservative treatments, although the evidence supporting this treatment has been controversial. PURPOSE We aimed to elucidate the precise effects of radiofrequency denervation in patients with low back pain originating from the facet joints relative to...

Purpose To evaluate the safety and efficacy of degradable starch microspheres (DSM) as embolic agents in transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) in the treatment of secondary liver metastases. Methods This was a national, multicenter observational study. Primary endpoints were safety and treatment response according to Modified Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (mRECIST) criteria. ...

OBJECTIVE To develop a model to measure potentially inappropriate care in Australian hospitals. DESIGN Secondary analysis of computerised hospital discharge data for all Australian hospitals for the 2010-11 financial year. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Hospital-specific incidence of selected diagnosis-procedure pairs identified as inappropriate in other literature. RESULTS Five hospital procedures...

Scars are a natural and unavoidable result from most wound repair procedures and the body's physiological healing response. However, they scars can cause considerable functional impairment and emotional and social distress. There are different forms of treatments that have been adopted to manage or eliminate scar formation. This review covers the latest research in the past decade on using eith...

AIMS To compare three bacterial DNA extraction procedures on cold-smoked salmon (CSS) and assess the impact on their efficiency of two physical treatments of the food matrix, ionizing irradiation and freezing. METHODS AND RESULTS As molecular methods for bacterial detection have become an important analytical tool, we compared bacterial DNA extraction procedures on CSS. Working with frozen an...