Widespread antimicrobial use and concomitant resistance have led to a significant threat to public health. Because inappropriate use and overuse of antibiotics based on insufficient knowledge are one of the major drivers of antibiotic resistance, education about prudent antibiotic use aimed at both the prescribers and the public is important. This review investigates recent studies on the effec...

This study evaluates the effectiveness of currently available antivirus software. The brand of anti-virus software appears to make a slight difference in identifying viruses on network servers. When individual company workstations were evaluated, no significant differences were detected across products. In general, current users are satisfied with their anti-virus software. Adequate financial r...

september 2008  35 © 2008 Human Kinetics · Att 13(5), pp. 35-38 INJURY is a frequent consequence of being an athlete or participating in recreational sport. Each year in the United States, it is estimated that 7 million child and adult sport participants sustain injuries1 and more than 2 million sport injuries result in an emergency room visit, surgery, and/or rehabilitation.2 When athletes be...

AG According to retrospective data in the literature, the risk of bleeding after colonoscopic polypectomy ranges from 0.2% to 1.2% in patients without risk factors for bleeding. When patients are on blood thinners, such as aspirin or warfarin, this risk has been reported to be as high as 6.8% in some studies. However, these estimates come from variable study designs and patient populations, whi...

Soil degradation and salinization are two of the utmost threat affecting agricultural areas, derived from the increasing use of low quality water and inappropriate cultural practices. The problem of low productivity of saline soils may be ascribed not only to their salt toxicity or damage caused by excess amounts of soluble salts but also arising from the lack of organic matter and available mi...

purpose: non-addict wives who are discordant with theirhusbands in substance use encounter many problems andexperience considerable stress in their life. in the present study weaimed to investigate the effectiveness of life skills instruction incoping skills of non-addict wives who were discordant with theirhusbands in substance use. materials and method: thirty women who did not use problem-fo...

Zipper, J., Medel, M., Osorio, A., Goldsmith, A. and Edelman, D. A. (Escuela de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile and International Fertility Research Program, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA). Long-term use effectiveness of th, CU-720i0 1UD. Int JGynaecol Obstet 14: 142-144, 1976. Copper-containing IUDs have been demonstrated to be as good, if not better, than other p...

PURPOSE To determine the frequency with which ultrasonographically (US) guided core biopsy obviated diagnostic surgical biopsy of nonpalpable breast masses, to calculate the cost savings of diagnosis attributable to US-guided core biopsy, and to compare the costs of US-guided versus stereotactically guided core biopsy. MATERIALS AND METHODS US-guided core biopsy was performed in 151 consecuti...

The Group Health Cooperative trial9 showed that telephone interventions were more effective than reminder cards in encouraging mammography among women older than 50 years of age. About 50% of women who received calls had mammography compared with about 35% of those who received the reminder card. As shown in Table 1, these results are consistent with those of other randomized trials involving t...