Hemicrania continua (HC) is an uncommon primary headache first described as a syndrome in 1984. Being quite unusual, its clinical characterization still demands better description. The aim of this study is to present the main clinical characteristics of 10 patients with the diagnosis of HC seen in a tertiary center, critically discussing their main features. All subjects had strictly unilateral...

BACKGROUND Improving the health of minority patients who have diabetes depends in part on improving quality and reducing disparities in ambulatory care. It has been difficult to measure these components at the level of actionable units. OBJECTIVE To measure ambulatory care quality and racial disparities in diabetes care across groups of physicians who care for populations of ambulatory diabet...

Statins are one of the most commonly used drugs in the world based on their potential to prevent adverse cardiovascular events. These cholesterol-lowering drugs received a US Food and Drug Administration warning, in February 2012, regarding increased risk of incident diabetes and impaired glycemic control in patients who already have diabetes. The possible association of diabetes with statin th...

The aim of the present study was make chronic cough guidelines more practical and user friendly by developing an internet-based interactive diagnostic questionnaire for chronic cough. A prospective cohort study of chronic cough sufferers was conducted in the UK, following European Respiratory Society guidelines for the diagnosis and management of chronic cough. Depending on the response to 16 s...

Accepted 25 September 1996 In the UK, there has been a rapid expansion in residential and nursing home care for elderly people with a corresponding reduction in long-term hospital care. Many of the residents are disabled and a large percentage are likely to have diabetes, although accurate information is not available. The needs of patients with diabetes living within institutions may be overlo...

We describe the detection of Bordetella holmesii as a cause of whooping cough in Spain. Prevalence was 3.9% in 2015, doubling to 8.8% in 2016. This emergence raises concern regarding the contribution of B. holmesii to the reemergence of whooping cough and the effectiveness of the pertussis vaccine.

We will show the Gauss decomposition with prescribed torus elements for a Kac-Moody group over a field in general case.

Setting and participants. 5140 participants aged 20 to 69 years who had audiometric testing and completed a diabetes questionnaire as part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Study (NHANES) from 1999 to 2004. A diagnosis of diabetes was assessed with the question, “Other than during pregnancy (for women), have you ever been told by a doctor or health professional that you have diab...

BACKGROUND Delivery of community-based prevention services for HIV, malaria, and diarrhea is a major priority and challenge in rural Africa. Integrated delivery campaigns may offer a mechanism to achieve high coverage and efficiency. METHODS We quantified the resources and costs to implement a large-scale integrated prevention campaign in Lurambi Division, Western Province, Kenya that reached...

The ability to generate small transverse emittance is perhaps the main limiting factor for the performance of high-gain x-ray free-electron lasers (FELs). Noting that beams from an rf photocathode gun can have energy spread much smaller than required for efficient FEL interaction, we present a method to produce normalized transverse emittance at or below about 0:1 m, which will lead to a signif...