Throughout our professional lives, we will be asked the question: “will I need braces?” A self-conscious teenager might ask, but what a worried parent may really be wondering is: “will my child be eligible for treatment within the HSE?” The modified Index of Treatment Need (IOTN) guidelines for eligibility were introduced in the HSE in 2007 as a way to assess orthodontic need objectively rather...

A newly collected historical database for the Helsinki Stock Exchange (HSE) is used to analyse number and structure of listed equity securities. The analysis shows that from its establishment in October 1912 end 1981, a total 849 different stock series related issue rights have been on HSE. Of these, 206 are normal they represent 167 companies. two largest industries represented HSE during most...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE On MR imaging and CT, Japanese encephalitis (JE) shows lesions in the thalami, substantia nigra, basal ganglia, cerebral cortex, cerebellum, brain stem, and white matter, whereas temporal lobe involvement is characteristically seen in Herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE). Temporal lobe involvement in JE may cause problems in differentiating it from HSE. We undertook this stu...

OBJECTIVE To investigate how smoking status is recorded in UK primary care; to evaluate whether appropriate multiple imputation (MI) of smoking status yields results consistent with health surveys. SETTING UK primary care and a population survey conducted in the community. PARTICIPANTS We identified 354 204 patients aged 16 or over in The Health Improvement Network (THIN) primary care datab...

OBJECTIVE To report 14 patients with immune-mediated relapsing symptoms post-herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) and to compare the clinical and immunologic features of the teenage and adult group with those of young children. METHODS Prospective observational study of patients diagnosed between June 2013 and February 2015. Immunologic techniques have been reported previously. RESULTS Among t...

Introduction: Fe-Ni metal and sulfides are common accessory minerals in eucrites and diogenites. We have invesigated the occurrence, mineralogy and composition of these phases in 4 eucrites (EET-92023, Petersburg, Stannern, Camel Donga, hereafter CD) and in two diogenites (Johnstown and Tatahouine). In addition to conventional techniques (SEM, EMP), LA-ICP-MS was used to specifically measure th...

BACKGROUND We developed an evidence service that draws inputs from Health Systems Evidence (HSE), which is a comprehensive database of research evidence about governance, financial and delivery arrangements within health systems and about implementation strategies relevant to health systems. Our goal was to evaluate whether, how and why a 'full-serve' evidence service increases the use of synth...

OBJECTIVE In view of the fact that height differences between socio-economic groups are apparent early in childhood, it is of interest to examine whether skeletal growth is reflective of the social class gradient in CVD risk. The present study examined blood pressure levels, adiposity and growth of adolescent boys from high and low social classes. DESIGN In a cross-sectional study, skeletal g...

UNLABELLED It is important that resources for orthodontic treatment within the Health Service Executive (HSE) are directed towards those children most in need of treatment. At present, children are referred using existing HSE guidelines. OBJECTIVES To assess the level of treatment need in a sample of patients on the orthodontic waiting list in the North Eastern division of the HSE using the I...

This report summarises the findings of a follow-up study to the HSE/DETR/Home Office/HM Treasury Project 'relativities' study (HSE CRR 273/2000), which sought to elicit public preferences for preventing fatalities in several hazard contexts (railway/road accidents and public/home fires). The very public debate in the media and elsewhere regarding the organisation of rail safety following the La...