Family Planning Perspectives studies of pregnant teenagers have reported a sexual abuse prevalence of 15–26%,2 rates no higher than those most commonly reported for the general population of women.3 Whereas data on a small group of college women suggested that those who had been sexually abused were at no higher risk for early pregnancy than their peers who had not been abused,4 findings from a...

Direct analysis in real time mass spectrometry (DART-MS) served as a method for rapid high-throughput screening of six commercially available "Spice" products, detecting various combinations of five synthetic cannabinoids. Direct analysis in real time is an ambient ionization process that, along with high mass accuracy time-of-flight (TOF)-MS to 0.0001 Da, was employed to establish the presence...

The technical and clinical success rates of endovascular The Primary Patency and Fracture Rates of SelfExpandable Nitinol Stents Placed in the Popliteal Arteries, Especially in the P2 and P3 Segments, in Korean Patients Il Soo Chang, MD, Hyun Keun Chee, MD, Sang Woo Park, MD, Ik Jin Yun, MD, Jae Joon Hwang, MD, Song Am Lee, MD, Jun Seok Kim, MD, Seong-Hwan Chang, MD, Hong Geun Jung, MD Departme...

Biological invasions by plants and animals have been the subject of several review papers, but invasions by plant pathogens have only occasionally been described and reviewed. The present paper discusses exotic plant diseases whose epidemiology has been clari ed using molecular analysis. Because the list of all exotic plant diseases is quite large, this review focuses on forest diseases caused...

Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a highly successful and cost-effective procedure providing substantial improvements in pain, functional disability and health-related quality of life [1]. The lifetime risk of undergoing a TKA is estimated to be 10.8% for women and 8.1% for men [2]. It is an increasingly common surgical procedure, as >80 000 operations are now performed annually in the UK, and t...

K. Almond*, P. Bikker, M. Lomax, M. E. Symonds and A. Mostyn Academic Division of Child Health, School of Clinical Sciences, E floor East Block, University Hospital, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK Division of Nutritional Sciences, School of Biosciences, North Lab, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonnington Campus, Loughborough LE12 5RD, UK Schothorst Feed Research, Lelystad, The Netherlands School of ...

Newly replicated Plasmodium falciparum parasites escape from host erythrocytes through a tightly regulated process that is mediated by multiple classes of proteolytic enzymes. However, the identification of specific proteases has been challenging. We describe here a forward chemical genetic screen using a highly focused library of more than 1,200 covalent serine and cysteine protease inhibitors...

Biomaterial-based strategies to restore connectivity after lesion at the spinal cord are focused on bridging the lesion and providing an favourable substrate and a path for axonal re-growth. Following spinal cord injury (SCI) a hostile environment for neuronal cell growth is established by the activation of multiple inhibitory mechanisms that hamper regeneration to occur. Implantable scaffolds ...

2010.6 The National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAAA) formed a special task force to make recommendations to address the problem.7 Binge drinking has even received global attention from the World Health Organization, which convened a conference to address the topic.8 Several prominent organizations and key leaders have accepted this call to action. Mothers Against Drunk Driving ...