Chiropractic's popularity is rising among the general population. Moreover, few studies have been conducted to properly evaluate its safety. We report three cases of serious neurological adverse events in patients treated with chiropractic manipulation. The first case is a 41 years old woman who developed a vertebro-basilar stroke 48 h after cervical manipulation. The second case represents a 6...

S o, what is new for theophylline in asthma? Theophylline has been used over the last 70 years for treating patients with asthma. It is well known as a bronchodilator and the current asthma guidelines recommend it as an add-on therapy in noncontrolled asthmatics [1]. More than a decade ago, EVANS et al. [2] showed that adding theophylline is equally effective as doubling inhaled cortico-steroid...

Why do some contractors oppose living wage ordinances (LWOs) while others do not? Can local government programs that take a more voluntary approach to creating living wages succeed? This article begins to address these questions through surveys of two sets of employers in the same community: a group of contractors subject to an LWO and the other a group of businesses that voluntarily pledged to...

a survey was made to study the rational given by women living in rural area of west tehran for using or not using family planning measures (1994). the purposes of this study were to investigate the reasons for using or not using family planning measures and it's relation to personal characteristics of the subjects. the samples were grouped in smaller groups: - those using effective family ...