OBJECTIVES We wanted to develop and validate a test that assesses the knowledge and practices of health professionals (HPs) with regard to the role of nutrition, physical activity, and smoking cessation (lifestyle modification) in chronic diseases of lifestyle. METHODS A descriptive cross-sectional validation study was carried out. The validation design consisted of two phases, namely 1) test...

We herein report a rare case of miliary tuberculosis-associated hemophagocytic syndrome (HPS) complicated with respiratory failure. A 19-year-old Japanese woman with a fever, general malaise, and chest radiograph abnormalities was referred to our hospital. After admission, she developed respiratory failure with pancytopenia. A histological examination of lung and bone marrow biopsy samples reve...

1. Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niterói, RJ, Radiologist and Medical Coordinator at Dimagem – Diagnóstico por Imagem, Nova Iguaçu, RJ, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected]. Despite the high incidence and lethality of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS), there is limited information in the literature about the high-resolution computed tomogra...

Introduction Empathetic behaviour is regarded as a positive trait amongst healthcare professionals and has been attributed to increased patient compliance, greater patient satisfaction, and greater diagnostic accuracy and reduced rates of clinical errors. Despite this, past studies have shown that healthcare students fail to recognise the importance of empathetic behaviour in patient care and d...

to study the effects of post-stripping oocyte ageing at low temperatures on the viability of kutum (rutilus kutum) oocytes, unfertilised eggs of five females were stored in ovarian fluid at temperatures of 4 and 7 degree centigrade for 24 hours post stripping (hps). the stored ova of five female kutum were separately fertilised at 0 (i.e., control eggs fertilised prior to storage), 4, 8, 12, 16...

BACKGROUND Human patient simulators and airway training manikins are widely used to train airway management skills to medical professionals. Furthermore, these patient simulators are employed as standardized "patients" to evaluate airway devices. However, little is known about how realistic these patient simulators and airway-training manikins really are. This trial aimed to evaluate the upper ...

Undergraduate cardiovascular teaching is traditionally delivered via lectures, tutorials and practical classes. The latter enable students to record their ECG and blood pressure but are necessarily limited to using non-invasive techniques in young, healthy individuals. We are enhancing our existing teaching with a Human Patient Simulator (HPS 337, METI), a life-sized manikin equipped with mecha...

Andes virus (ANDV) is the predominant cause of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in South America and the only hantavirus known to be transmitted person-to-person. There are no vaccines, prophylactics, or therapeutics to prevent or treat this highly pathogenic disease (case-fatality 35-40%). Infection of Syrian hamsters with ANDV results in a disease that closely mimics human HPS in incubatio...

Human pluripotent stem (hPS) cells provide an attractive opportunity for the manufacture of a wide array of therapeutic cell types. The challenges to commercialization include the thousand-fold diversity of cell types emerging from hPS cells and the associated difficulties in validating processes to reliably generate cells with precise identity and purity. Improved methods of controlling the do...

PURPOSE To evaluate the corneal epitheliotropic abilities of two commercialized human platelet lysates (HPLs) and to compare the results with other blood derivatives, including human peripheral serum (HPS) and bovine fetal serum (FBS). METHODS In vitro, human corneal epithelial cells were incubated in various concentrations (0%, 3%, 5% and 10%) of blood derivatives. Two commercialized HPLs, i...