A prospective study of acute hypoxic respiratory failure was carried out by nine centers in a collaborative NIH study from 1 September 1975 to 1 March 1977. Serious hypoxic respiratory failure was defined in 713 patients by the presence of (1) endotracheal intubation and positive airway pressure for at least 24 hours, and (2) the administration of at least 50 percent oxygen. The 490 patients be...

OBJECTIVE To survey the level of disclosure of conception method within families of children conceived by conventional in vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) and to examine the factors that might influence parental attitudes and plans for disclosure. DESIGN In-depth questionnaire. SETTING Participants recruited through fertility clinics in the United Kingdom...

two slug species (parmacella ibera and agriolimax agresteris) from parmacelidae and ‎limacidae families were found dominant injuries slugs in nursery and field conditions during ‎2001-2003. different methods of control under field condition in grakheil station of sari vicinity ‎studied. the experiment conducted in complete randomized block design with eight treatments and ‎four replications. ea...

The accuracy and sensitivity of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) for prostate cancer diagnosis is often poor; however, the reasons for its inaccuracy have rarely been investigated, especially with respect to age. In this study, 476 healthy males, aged 10-89 years, were stratified into eight age groups, and levels of seven markers were determined: total PSA (tPSA), free PSA (fPSA), %fPSA, isoform...

 The 2014 EBRI/Greenwald & Associates Consumer Engagement in Health Care Survey (CEHCS) finds that 15 percent of the privately insured population was enrolled in a consumer-driven health plan (CDHP); 11 percent was enrolled in a high-deductible health plan (HDHP); and 74 percent was enrolled in more traditional coverage. Overall, 26 million individuals with private insurance were enrolled in a...

background: general health is related not only to physical illness but also to mental and social conditions including personality traits and the quality of life. the main objective of the current study was to investigate the relationship between five main personality factors, quality of life, and mental health in patients suffering from thalassemia. materials and methods: the current study was ...

Eighty-six patients had a total of eighty-eight primary attempts at repair of a pseudarthrosis that had developed after a localized arthrodesis in the lumbar spine. A follow-up questionnaire was sent to all patients at a mean of fifty-one months (range, twenty-five to seventy-eight months) after the operation; seventy-two patients (84 percent) completed to questionnaire. A solid fusion was ulti...

this research was conducted to evaluate alteration of growth performance, nutrition, carcass and some serum biochemical parameters of common carp fed the diets supplemented by different levels of meal and alcoholic extract of alfalfa (medicago sativa). in this research, 300 fish (mean weight: 20.4 ± 0.19 g and mean length: 11.78 ± 0.64 cm) were fed by nine nutritional diets for 8 weeks. nutriti...