As known, small bowel obstruction is one of the most common emergencies in general surgery carrying a not negligible rate of morbidity and financial expenditures as far as high social impact . Peritoneal adhesions are the leading cause of intestinal obstruction up to 74% of cases. In spite of increasing incidence worldwide, current management still presents some “blind corners”, whose aspects s...

ST segment elevation in characteristic electrocardiographic leads during an acute myocardial infarction generally allows correct identification of the coronary artery occluded (1). Electrocardiographic changes, usually ST segment depression, are often noted in other leads, presumably representing myocardium sub served by other coronary arteries. What do such changes mean? Are they a benign elec...

Only 25-35% of Canadian children and youth regularly engage in active transportation (AT; e.g., non-motorized travel modes such as walking and cycling) to/from school. Previous research shows that distance between home and school is the strongest barrier to AT. Based on social ecological theory, we describe several strategies to overcome this barrier. At the individual level, children and youth...

Bone is a dynamic load-bearing organ whose structural integrity is maintained by a remodeling cycle that consists of osteoclast-mediated resorption followed by osteoblastmediated deposition of an unmineralized collagen matrix (osteoid). After a delay of several days (as measured by the histomorphometric parameter of mineralization lag time), osteoid undergoes mineralization, which is a complex ...

Self-care, ‘the care taken by individuals towards their own health and wellbeing’, has always been commonplace. People have always made decisions about whether to attempt to manage their own symptoms, seek advice from lay networks, or go to a professional, be that a ‘bloodletter’, apothecary or herbalist. And self-care has continued to be a usual first step since the emergence of modern health ...

A 20 year quantitative assessment of research in British universities has coincided with a renaissance in their international status. But even as other nations seek to emulate the approach, domestic critics are calling into question its dominance over university life.