INTRODUCTION In spite of its seriousness, dependence on alcohol and benzodiazepines during substitution treatment are poorly documented. Its frequency is nonetheless significant. According to studies, between one and two thirds of patients are affected. This consumption is under verbalized by patients and underestimated by carers. In one study, where the average diazepam doses were from 40 to 4...

BACKGROUND During the last years, Europe experienced an increase in immigration due to a variety of worldwide wars and conflicts, which in turn resulted in a greater number of physical and mental health issues present among the refugees. These factors place high demands not only on the refugees, but also on healthcare professionals who meet the refugees in different situations. Information abou...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background The calculation LV ejection fraction (LVEF) by transthoracic echocardiography is pivotal in detecting cancer therapy–related cardiac dysfunction. Referrals for LVEF estimation pre- and post-chemotherapy occupy significant amount resources laboratories increase service deliverance. Novel handheld ultrasound devices (HUDs...

oya in gratitude to his friend Arrieta for the skill and care with which he saved his life in his acute and dangerous illness suffered at the end of the year 1819 at the age of 73. He painted it in 1820 " (1) reads the inscription at the bottom of Goya's self-portrait on this month's cover of Emerging Infectious Diseases. An affirmation of medical practice, the painting is also an acknowledgmen...

BACKGROUND Stroke is one of the major causes of loss of independence, decreased quality of life and mortality among elderly people. About half of the elderly stroke patients discharged after rehabilitation in a nursing home still experience serious impairments in daily functioning one year post stroke, which can lead to difficulties in picking up and managing their social life. The aim of this ...

Background: Despite increased deliverance of antiretroviral therapy (ART), morbidity and mortality from TB are still predominant among HIV/AIDS infected patients in Ethiopia. Thus, current study aimed to determine magnitude and predictors of tuberculosis among cohort of HIV infected patients at Arba Minch General Hospital, Ethiopia, 2015. Methods: Hospital based retrospective follow-up study wa...

A typical multi-resolution satellite sensor is working in several multi-spectral modes as well as a panchromatic mode with a much higher spatial resolution. The integration of panchromatic data into the standard multispectral analysis is not a straightforward procedure. The additional image information of the panchromatic band in combination with the multi-spectral bands however, allows to retr...

Similar discussions apply to parsing. Fifty thousand words of the corpus have been parsed by hand, and this has been used to make a table of the relative frequencies of different syntactic constructions. Assuming that the correct parse tree is the one ma~de of the most probable constituents (to greatly oversimplify in the interests of saving space), a program was written to parse with about 50%...

STUDY QUESTION Do patients present different adjustment trajectories during and after IVF treatment? SUMMARY ANSWER Most women show resilient trajectories during and after IVF treatment but 37% show temporary or chronic maladjustment during IVF and 10% are maladjusted 11-17 years after treatment. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY Research on patient psychosocial adjustment during treatment has contribu...