Despite the important scientific progress regarding HIV pandemics registered during the last decade, more and more cases of HIV infection are diagnosed every year, as HIV testing practices vary across Europe. Purpose: to identify epidemiologic trends in newly diagnosed patients with HIV infection in the center of Romania. We performed a retrospective, cross-sectional study, over a 5-year period...

If one judges solely by the cumulative table of contents of the official journal of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Neuropsychopharmacology, the intersection where epidemiology meets neuropsychopharmacology is quite empty. When one looks elsewhere, the traffic becomes visible, with a scope that encompasses topics such as the characteristics of incarcerated drug users, adolescen...

The overall trend of cancer mortality in Japan has been decreasing since the 1960s (agestandardized death rates for ages 30-69), some 20-30 years earlier than in other industrialized countries. Cancer mortality was heavily influenced by Japanese post-war economic recovery, which led to improved living conditions and better control of some common forms of cancer (stomach, cervical) largely cause...

Public awareness of breast cancer risk has increased during the 1980s, in part because of publicity highlighting recent increases in incidence rates and the occurrence of breast cancer in numerous public figures. This publicity, coupled with a trend toward increased patient participation in medical decision making, has led many women to seek information about their individual risks of developin...

BACKGROUND Bell's palsy (BP) is an acute, idiopathic, and usually unilateral paralysis of the facial nerve. Large population-based studies of BP among children are lacking. We determined epidemiologic and clinical features of BP among children enrolled in a large integrated health care delivery system. METHODS From 2001 through 2006, all children ≤18 years of age diagnosed with BP within the ...