BACKGROUND Superficial skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) are common among the Indigenous population of the desert regions of Central Australia. However, the overall burden of disease and molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus complicated SSTIs has yet to be described in this unique population. METHODS Alice Springs Hospital (ASH) admission data was interrogated to establish the...

Tou Nong San (TNS) is a traditional Chinese medicinal decoction used to treat sores and carbuncles. It contains four herbal drugs and one animal medicine: Radix Astragaliseu Seu Hedysari, Angelica sinensis, Ligustici Chuanxiong, Spina Gleditsiae, and stir-baked Squama Manis. Previous studies have shown that it has anticancer effects. This report validates in vivo antitumor properties of TNS. Th...

BACKGROUND Persicaria hydropiper (Linn.) Delarbre is a common plant of Polygonaceae family commonly called Bishkatali in Bangladesh. Leaves of the plant are traditionally used in the treatment of rheumatic pain, gout, and skin diseases such as ringworms, scabies, boils, abscesses, carbuncles, bites of snakes, dogs or insects. This study evaluated the antinociceptive effect of the methanol extra...

The authors postulate that judicial intervention in pregnancy is one of the means by which control is legally exercised on women's bodies and lives. Despite the recommendations of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies, which rejected proposals for intervention, and the fact that the movement to recognize fetal "rights" has been stronger in the United States than in Canada, the a...

Gleditsia sinensis thorns (GST) have been used as a traditional medicine for carbuncles and skin diseases. The purpose of this study was to decide whether non-toxicological levels of water extract of GST (WEGST) are effective in inhibiting the progress of prostate cancer formation and to identify the target molecule involved in the WEGST-mediated inhibitory process of prostate cancer cell migra...

Yunnan Paiyao (also know as Yunnan Baiyao) is a secret formula of Chinese herbs containing mostly Pseudonginseng and Angelica, Because it is contraindicated during pregnancy, midwives often don't include this valuable patent Chinese remedy in their medicine bags. It is easily available in Chinese Medicinal pharmacies all over the world. It also is relatively inexpensive and is packaged to give ...

1. Entropy consistency Systems of conservation laws that originate in physics frequently possess an additional conservation law for an auxiliary quantity called entropy, which is conserved in smooth solutions but increases (or decreases according to the sign convention adopted) if shock waves appear. Numerical methods for conservation laws can be expected to reveal this behavior in a general wa...

nongjia Forest District, a National Natural Protection Region of China. Most of them were recorded to be used as anti-inflammatory agents in the folk. Kaikoujian, the Chinese name of rhizomes of Tupistra chinensis BAK., is a reputed folk medicine in that district because of its potent to markedly reduce carbuncles and to ameliorate pharyngitis. In the course of our studies on the native folk me...

cefazolin sodium (1 g every 8 hours). His temperature decreased The most common manifestation of pneumococcal disease is except for an occasional elevation. On hospital day 2, an abdominal pneumonia, which has been associated with local complications CT showed an abscess affecting the lower pole of the right kidney (empyema, pericarditis, lung abscess), extrapulmonary infections (figure 1). A p...

Sir, With a rapid increase in invasive infections caused by methicillinresistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), there is a demand for antimicrobials with enhanced activity against MRSA. The concentration-dependent, bactericidal lipoglycopeptide telavancin was approved in 2009 for treatment of complicated skin and skin-structure infections due to susceptible organisms. The emergence of glycopepti...