Once the disease has developed and its diagnosis confirmed, known methods of therapy do not seem to offer help and in established cases the disease marches on to its inevitable fatal end. One repeatedly feels extremely disappointed to see the poor results with modern lines of treatment. This and reports of encouraging results with Liv.52 therapy by others along with results of the experimental ...

Both chemical irritation and mechanical compression affect radicular pain from disc herniation. However, relative effects of these insults on pain symptoms are unclear. This study investigated chemical and mechanical contributions for painful cervical nerve root injury. Accordingly, the C7 nerve root separately underwent chromic gut exposure, 10gf compression, or their combination. Mechanical a...

BACKGROUND Little has been known regarding the relationship between ocular chemical injury and victims' medical expenditure, income loss and socio-economic status changes. So we conduct this retrospective cross-sectional study in patients with ocular chemical burns in East China. METHODS Fifty-six patients were enrolled and required to complete a self-report questionnaire consisting of the fo...

Chemicals The purpose of this program announcement (PA) is to investigate acute mucosal irritation in the upper and lower respiratory tract occurring after aerosol exposure to toxic chemicals with the goals to: 1) minimize initial injury promptly, 2) retard and ameliorate progressive mucosal irritation or inflammation, and 3) offer prophylaxis against pulmonary edema, if created by acute lung i...