One strategy for reducing the primary cesarean surgery rate and length of labor is using a peanut-shaped exercise ball for women laboring under epidural analgesia. A randomized, controlled study was conducted to determine whether use of a “peanut ball” decreased length of labor and increased the rate of vaginal birth. Women who used the peanut ball (n 5 107) versus those who did not (n 5 91) de...

A genome-wide linkage scan has provided evidence for a chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) susceptibility locus at 2q21 to which the chemokine receptor CXCR4 gene maps. Recent data provide some evidence for common variation in CXCR4 according to the polymorphic variant rs2228014 defining CLL risk. To examine the role of genetic variation in CXCR4 on CLL risk, we screened 188 familial CLL cases a...

We present multiband photometric observations of three spiral galaxies selected in a sample suited for the study of young stellar groupings and their relationship with the parent galaxy and the galactic environment. Star forming regions have been identified using an objective technique based on a multivariate statistical analysis. Maps of young star groupings are given for each galaxy. The lumi...

D G Corr , S R Cloude , L Ferro-Famil , D H Hoekman , K Partington , E Pottier (3) and A Rodrigues (7) (1) QinetiQ Ltd, Room 1004, A8 Building,, Cody Technology Park, Farnborough, Hants. GU14 0LX, UK Email:[email protected] (2) AELc, Granary Business Centre, Unit 3.3, Fife. KY15 5YQ, UK Email: [email protected] (3) IETR, Université de Rennes I, Bât 11D, 263 Avenue Général Leclerc, CS 742...

The study was carried out in Taquarendi (Bahia), a caatinga zone with a small irrigated strip of land, where Biomphalaria glabrata snails are found. From the 1,532 inhabitants, 1,105 (72.1%) were submitted to clinical examination and 1058 out of them (95.7%) made stool examinations. Prevalence of schistosomiasis was 73.1% and 16.2% of these patients eliminated more than 1,000 eggs per gram of s...

Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), a neurologic disease that produces ascending paralysis, affects people all over the world. Acute infectious illnesses precede 50%-75% of the GBS cases. Although many infectious agents have been associated with GBS, the strongest documented association is with Campylobacter infection. The first line of evidence supporting Campylobacter infection as a trigger of GBS...

Population screening for diabetes mellitus is of uncertain value. We therefore assessed the value of screening amongst community chiropody clinic attenders in Liverpool. All attenders aged between 40 and 75 years during a 3-month period were offered screening by urine glucose self-testing, 2 hours post-prandially, backed up with glucose tolerance tests (GTT) for positive respondents. Of 1058 pa...

1216. 3. Marasca R, Zucchini P, Galimberti S, et al. Missense mutation in the PML/ RARa ligand binding domain in ATRA-resistant As2O3 sensitive relapsed acute promyelocytic leukemia. Haematologica. 1999;84:963-968. 4. Hughes TP, Morgan HGJ, Martiat P, Goldman JM. Detection of residual leukemia after bone marrow transplant for chronic myeloid leukemia: role of polymerase chain reaction in predic...

2005;64;1058-1060 Neurology Rao and J. A. Zivin B. C. Meyer, P. D. Lyden, L. Al-Khoury, Y. Cheng, R. Raman, R. Fellman, J. Beer, R. Telemedicine System Prospective reliability of the STRokE DOC Wireless/Site Independent This information is current as of April 2, 2010 http://www.neurology.org/cgi/content/full/64/6/1058 located on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along w...