statement of the problem in recent years, amalgam has been considered a danger for dentistry personnel due to toxicity of mercury (hg) purpose this study aimed at investigating the relationship between scientific indices and dentists’ urine hg level through measuring its concentration rate among dentists with over four years of experience materials and methods thirty dentists with over four yea...

AIMS Self-monitoring of blood or urine glucose is widely used by subjects with Type 2 diabetes mellitus. This study evaluated the effectiveness of the technique at improving blood glucose control through a systematic review and meta-analysis. METHODS Randomized controlled trials were identified that compared the effects of blood or urine glucose monitoring with no self-monitoring, or blood gl...

Biomarkers are the measurable changes associated with a physiological or pathophysiological process. Unlike blood, urine is not subject to homeostatic mechanisms. Therefore, greater fluctuations could occur in urine than in blood, better reflecting the changes in human body. The roadmap of urine biomarker era was proposed. Although urine analysis has been attempted for clinical diagnosis, and u...

a 16-year-old girl with an intellectual disability (known case of down syndrome) arrived in the emergency eepartment with complaints of severe breathlessness, bloody salivation (bright red blood or clots), and difficulty in speaking and swallowing of liquids and solids. the patient gradually developed progressive bloody salivation and hoarseness, never had any history of trauma to the head and ...

background: to provide a point of reference to study the epidemiology and clin-ical expression of canine babesiosis in china. methods: a total of 30 dogs infected with canine babesiosis were evaluated by mean of clinical history, physical examination, hematological, restriction fragment length polymorphism of pcr products (pcr-rflp) and sequencing analysis. result: the most prevalent clinical a...