Hospitals in New York were overwhelmed by the epidemic. With nothing known about the virus, most cases were treated with traditional or symptomatic remedies. New treatments were made though unsuccessful. Serum from various sources was given although it was many years before this was found to be ineffectual. Lumbar puncture was made, sometimes with additions. Although this became standard treatm...

Many pharmacological therapies have been investigated for use in acute lung injury (ALI) and the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). These therapies can broadly be classified as being either anti-inflammatory or physiology based. Despite promising pre-clinical and small clinical studies almost all therapies have been shown to be unsuccessful in large scale randomized controlled trials. ...

Two case histories are presented documenting structural chromosome abnormalities in infertile males. The abnormalities were detected only after application of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) was repeatedly unsuccessful or resulted in an abnormal pregnancy. A mosaic Robertsonian translocation 45,XY,der(13;13)(q10; q10)/46,XY,t(13;13)(p10;p10), der(13p;13p) incompatible with normal offspr...

Oculomotor palsy is a mononeuropathy, which causes sudden unilateral ptosis and double vision. It often affects older people who have concurrent diabetes and/or hypertension. Oculomotor palsy generally resolves over three to four months as regeneration of affected nerve fibres. there is no effective biomedical treatment. In this report, I present a 76-yearold man who experienced left-sided ocul...

still comparatively young, they realize when 15 or 16, the importance of reading. However, being forced to go through the initial stages where scarcely any other reading matter is available but that written for much younger children, they detest reading though attracted at the same time to a skill which seems so necessary to all other people. This regret and disappointment may assist considerab...

Background and Objective: Patients suffering from cardiac arrest (CA) have poor prognosis and survival. The association of pre-arrest comorbidity with unsuccessful resuscitation in patients with CA is far from clear. The aim of the present study was to investigate the association between pre-existing comorbidity and unsuccessful resuscitation following CA in Iranian patients. Materials and Met...

Scleroedema adultorum Buschke is a rare skin disease, which can be divided into 3 subtypes: classic type, occurring after respiratory infections; a type lacking association with infections; and a type associated with diabetes. Scleroedema adultorum Buschke is characterized by thickening and tightening of the skin, which typically starts at the neck. In half of patients, spontaneous remission ma...

Acupuncture as part of the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is used for a very long time treatment infertility issues. Through specific acupoints located on meridians, with acupuncture Qi and blood flow can be regulated whole body energy balanced. increases to ovaries uterus, improving implantation condition, ovarian follicular function balancing hormones. In this research, it presented case ...