Evidence suggests European American (EA) women have two- to five-fold increased odds of having pelvic organ prolapse (POP) when compared with African American (AA) women. However, the role of genetic ancestry in relation to POP risk is not clear. Here we evaluate the association between genetic ancestry and POP in AA women from the Women's Health Initiative Hormone Therapy trial. Women with gra...

INTRODUCTION Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) is treated with a great variety of procedures and none is fully satisfactory. The aim of the study was to introduce and evaluate the effectives of laparoscopic trans teres vault suspension (LTTVS) technique as a new method for POP treatment. MATERIAL AND METHODS In the years 2013-2014, eight symptomatic women with grades II-IV POP underwent LTTVS proce...

Previous research has shown that repetition of a task-relevant attention-capturing feature facilitates pop-out search. This priming of pop-out effect is due to some residual memory from recent trials. We explore two possible mechanisms of priming of pop-out: a top-down attentional benefit from a memory of the previous target representation that is stored in visual short-term memory (VSTM) and a...

Consumption of polluted fish may lead to high levels of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in humans, potentially causing adverse health effects. Altered DNA methylation has been suggested as a possible contributor to a variety of adverse health effects. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between serum POP levels (dioxins, polychlorobiphenyls, and perfluoroctane sulphonate...

As thousands of individuals surf the internet daily, every image on every web page is saved automatically to their computer's cache, absent user direction. Sections 2252(a)(2) and 2252(a)(4)(B) of Title 18 of the U.S. Code criminalize knowing possession and knowing receipt of child pornography images. For the defendant who intentionally saves illicit images to his computer, the cache simply ver...

In Mandela27 the museum was ‘hacked’ to create a democratic Do-it-Yourself (DIY) pop-up exhibition, inspired by story of Nelson Mandela’s incarceration. The installation tells journey from apartheid democracy and reconciliation in South Africa through 360 video, archival photographs, digital game an interactive timeline – all displayed within symbolic reconstruction cell Robben Island Prison. p...

This pathway provides guidance on the staging of patients with bladder cancer confirmed with histology. Date reviewed: January 2012 Date of next review: 2017/2018 Published: September 2012 Quick User Guide Move the mouse cursor over the PINK text boxes inside the flow chart to bring up a pop up box with salient points. Clicking on the PINK text box will bring up the full text. The relative radi...

This pathway provides guidance on imaging patients with proven colorectal cancer, indicating how imaging helps determine management. Date reviewed: January 2012 Date of next review: 2017/2018 Published: January 2012 Quick User Guide Move the mouse cursor over the PINK text boxes inside the flow chart to bring up a pop up box with salient points. Clicking on the PINK text box will bring up the f...