BACKGROUND The severity and course of spinal pain is poorly understood in adolescents. The study aimed to determine the prevalence and two-year incidence, as well as the course, frequency, and intensity of pain in the neck, mid back, and low back (spinal pain). METHODS This study was a school-based prospective cohort study. All 5th and 6th grade students (11-13 years) at 14 schools in the Reg...

S ometimes when a child is sick or hurt, it is necessary for physicians to do a procedure. The purpose of some procedures is to get more medical information; examples include doing a blood draw using a needle or collecting urine through a plastic tube called a catheter that goes into your child’s urethra. The purpose of other procedures is for a treatment, such as putting in stitches for a cut ...

Anchusa strigosa - prickly alkanet from Boraginaceae grows in roadsides, and fields of a broad range habitats mediterranean woodlands, to steppe vegetation, true desert. It is commonly known as" him him" or "lisan al thawr". can withstand hard weather conditions hence widely cultivated. The color its flowers pure white deep cobalt blue. Various parts A. are used traditional medicine for treatin...

The whole genome of a G8P[8] rotavirus from the 2006 epidemic in Croatia was sequenced and showed a Wa-like genotype constellation. Its VP7 gene clustered with DS-1-like G8 African rotaviruses and a G8P[4] German strain. Remaining genes clustered with contemporary Belgian G1P[8] rotaviruses, suggesting reassortment between human G8 and G1P[8] rotaviruses in Croatia or other European countries.

Thank you for republishing the landmark paper by Cornfield et al., which the late George Comstock felt should be read by all epidemiologists at least once per year. Of the many innovative aspects for which this paper is praised, we would like to add here one that is rarely mentioned. Appendix B of the paper provides the algebraic proof of an important property of risk ratios described in the bo...

Kielikone MT stands for innovative machine translation R&D which has produced a theoretically and commercially successful MT product, the TranSmart® FinnishEnglish machine translation system. A prestigious jury indirectly praised also the theoretical quality of the system when it elected TranSmart the best Finnish software product of the year 1996. Hundreds of daily users in three major Finnish...

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