The US Air Force continues to assess the mortality of veterans of Operation Ranch Hand, the unit responsible for aerially spraying herbicides in Vietnam. The authors of this study found that the cumulative all-cause mortality experience of these veterans was not different from that expected (standardized mortality ratio (SMR) = 1.0). Overall, cause-specific mortality did not differ from that ex...

Section of Digestive Diseases, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; Veterans Affairs Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut; Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Healthcare System and Stanford University School of Medicine (affiliate), Palo Alto, California; Division of Gastroenterology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; University of California at San Francisco, Ve...

Division of Digestive Diseases, David Geffen School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gastroenterology Section, North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, University of Flo...

BACKGROUND Digestive enzymes are able to break down proteins and carbohydrates and lipids, and their supplementation may play a role in the management of digestive disorders, from lactose intolerance to cystic fibrosis. To date, several formulations of digestive enzymes are available on the market, being different each other in terms of enzyme type, source and origin, and dosage. METHODS This...

1. Department of Hepatology and Transplant Medicine, PVS Institute of Digestive Diseases, PVS Memorial Hospital, Kochi, India 2. Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, PVS Memorial Hospital, Kochi, India 3. Department of Gastroenterology, PVS Institute of Digestive Diseases, PVS Memorial Hospital, Kochi, India Cyriac Abby Philips1*, Lijesh Kumar2, Mathew Philip3, Prasanth Menon3...

Aiwu Ruth Hea,∗, Jonathan Mendelsonb, Tiffany Blakeb, Lopa Mishrab,c and John L. Marshalla Division of Hematology/Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA Laboratory of Cancer Genetics, Digestive Diseases, and Developmental Molecular Biology, Department of Surgery, Lombardi Cancer Center, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA Laboratory of ...

In this retrospective study, a total of 657 sick animals were brought to Aksaray University Veterinary Faculty Internal Medicine Clinic between 23.06.2015-30.06.2021. The distribution these by year, month and species is shown in tables graphics. At the same time, systems affected diseases classified data obtained with graphics tried be shown. It was determined that most carnivores least poultry...

biochemical characteristics of α-amylase in the digestive system and head glands of cryptolaemus montrouzieri, a key predator of citrus mealybug, planococcus citri (pseudococcidae), were studied. the major isoform of α-amylase with the same molecular weight was detected in both gut and head glands loaded on polyacrylamide-starch gel electrophoresis. moreover, a minor band with much lower intens...

OBJECTIVE To describe the distribution of mortality due to digestive tract, genitourinary and nervous system diseases according to occupation among Brazilian Navy servicemen. METHODS This was an exploratory study of proportional mortality among male servicemen in the Brazilian Navy who died between 1991 and 1995. The study population comprises the entire contingent of servicemen during this s...