Digital image archival requires less physical storage space, allows for rapid storage and retrieval and avoids loss in image quality over time or with image duplication compared with film storage. Because medical imaging data are critically important and, by law, must be stored in a safe, accessible manner, it is imperative not to have one computer error destroy all copies of the image data. Se...

Prior studies show that perceived smoking prevalence is a significant predictor of smoking initiation. In this study, we examine racial/ethnic differences in perceived smoking prevalence and racial/ethnic differences in exposure to contextual factors associated with perceived smoking prevalence. We used cross-sectional time series data from the Legacy Media Tracking Surveys (LMTS), a national s...

INTRODUCTION Otitis media with effusion (OME) and hypertrophy adenoid (AH) are still common diseases during childhood. Adenoid has particular meaning in develop of immunological answer to inflammation in upper respiratory inclusive middle ear. The CD62L lymphocyte adhesion molecule plays an important role in controlling lymphocyte extravasations into adenoid and at sites of tissue infection. Th...

Developing of a new scale for assessing the adherence to colchicine treatment in pediatric patients with FMF S Yesilkaya, C Acikel, BE Fidanci, B Sozeri, NA Ayaz, N Akıncı, S Kavukçu, G Özçelik, U Aydogan, S Ozenç, S Emre, O Donmez, A Delibaş, S Yüksel, A Berdelli, H Poyrazoğlu, M Saldır, N Çakar, H Peru, S Bakkaloğlu, Y Tabel, O Sarı, A Polat, G Basbozkurt, E Unsal, O Kasapcopur, F Gok, S Ozen...

BACKGROUND Carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) is a noninvasive marker of cardiovascular risk. The cIMT may be increased in patients with harmonisation, but little is known regarding the functional form of the association between blood pressure (BP) and cIMT in hypertensive and nonhypertensive persons. We aimed to define the shape of the association between BP and cIMT. METHODS AND RESULTS ...

O phir, Nass, and Wagner report in this issue of PNAS (1) that heavy media multitaskers (HMMs) performed worse on task switching than light media multitaskers (LMMs), likely because of HMMs’ reduced ability to filter out interference from irrelevant stimuli and representations in memory. Their findings are surprising in that, intuitively, HMMs should be better at task switching (i.e., multitask...

The aims were to: (1) provide word recognition thresholds (WRTs) at 31, 43, and 61 months of age; (2) investigate developmental changes over time; (3) investigate the relationship between OME and WRT, and (4) investigate the relationship between WRT and hearing thresholds. Around 1000 children were tested longitudinally as part of the ALSPAC study, using an adaptive measure of word recognition ...

This sensational headline turned out to reveal little more than that a few American Presbyterian missionaries had provided ome women in nazonia with contraceptive devices. The resultant scandal was totally disproportionate to the importance of the events. Throughout the country the topic was widely discussed while the arguments employed were frequently heated, and at times irrational to the poi...

BACKGROUND Chronic otitis media with effusion is a persistent complication essentially universal in children with cleft palate. The prevalence of chronic otitis media with effusion is hypothesized to be a result of Eustachian tube dysfunction secondary to the anomalous insertion of the palatal musculature. This study was designed to evaluate the timing of tympanostomy tube placement and the eff...