Possible relationships between tubal ligation and hysterectomy and epithelial ovarian cancer were assessed in data that were collected for a multinational hospital-based case-control study conducted between 1979 and 1988. Histologically confirmed incident cases (n = 393) were compared with controls (n = 2563) matched on age, hospital, and year of interview. A nonsignificant reduction in risk wa...

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Described is an epidemiological investigation of hookworm infections in a rural community in Zimbabwe, where Necator americanus is the only human helminth species present. Among a cohort of 120 individuals the overall prevalence of infection was 78%. Intensity of infection was quantified both as egg counts (range: 0-2563 eggs per g of stool) and worm burden (range: 0-100 worms). Although both t...

BACKGROUND Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) with central adrenal insufficiency is a recently defined clinical syndrome caused by mutations in the nuclear factor kappa-B subunit 2 (NFKB2) gene. We present the first case of NFKB2 mutation in Asian population. METHODS AND RESULTS An 18-year-old Chinese female with adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) deficiency was admitted due to adrenal c...

to recognize and introduce the excellence works in the field of holy defense, the holy defense book festival is held yearly by bonyad-e hefz-e asar va arzshha-ye defae moqaddas. of the 2563 works published during the years 2011 to 2013, 9 titles from the publications of the center for holy defense documentation and research have nominated and commended to the jury to be rewarded or appreciated ...

Background: Rheumatic Fever (RF) is a non-suppurative systemic inflammatory disease with a "delayed autoimmune" caused by Group A streptococcal infections. Inadequate RF treatment causes recurrent RF which is a predisposing factor for Infective Endocarditis. Case Presentation: A 39-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with chief complaints of intermittent fever since one month ago, sh...

In previous papers, a data reduction method for determining a frequency-dependent ‘‘effective scatterer number density’’ in ultrasound was reported @Chen et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 95, 77–95 ~1994!; 96, 2556–2563 ~1994!#. The effective scatterer number density is the actual number density of scatterers multiplied by a frequency-dependent factor that depends on the differential scattering cross...

4 Tetsuro Ikegami,1,2,3* Terence E. Hill,1 Jennifer K. Smith,1,4 Lihong Zhang,1,4 Terry L. 5 Juelich,1,4 Bin Gong, 1,3,4 Olga A.L. Slack, 1† Hoai J. Ly, 1 Nandadeva Lokugamage, 1 6 Alexander N. Freiberg,1,2,3,4 7 8 Department of Pathology, The Sealy Center for Vaccine Development, The Center for 9 Biodefense and Emerging Infectious Diseases, Galveston National Laboratory, The 10 University of T...