In early May 2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection in the USA. Reportedly, the patient flew from Saudi Arabia to the United Kingdom (UK) and then to Chicago on April 24, before travelling by bus to Indiana. The patient started experiencing respiratory symptoms on April 27, accordin...

A self-expandable metal stent (SEMS) is an effective and safe method for the decompression of colon obstruction. Based on recent evidence, colorectal SEMS is now recommended for the palliation of patients with colonic obstruction from incurable colorectal cancer or extracolonic malignancy and also as a bridge to surgery in those who are a high surgical risk. Prophylactic SEMS insertion in patie...

Coronary artery stents revolutionized the practice of interventional cardiology after they were first introduced in the mid-1980s. Since then, there have been significant developments in their design, the most notable of which has been the introduction of drug-eluting stents. This paper reviews the benefits, risks, and current status of Food and Drug Administration-approved drug-eluting stents.

There is no significant difference in the metabolic control with animal or human insulin. At present there is no clinical data comparing the diabetes related mortality and complications, with animal or human insulin. The earlier animal insulins were more immunogenic as compared to human insulin, but the present day highly purified monocomponent insulins are less antigenic and the difference in ...

Newborn screening, which represents one of the major advances in child health of the past century, has been carried out in all fifty U.S. states since the 1970s. Newborn screening programs are state-run, and decisions are left to the individual states regarding the conditions to be screened for, the mechanism for confirmatory testing, follow-up care, and financing of the programs. Laboratory ad...

The International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) is dedicated to the fine spectroscopy (∆E: 2 keV FWHM @ 1.3 MeV) and fine imaging (angular resolution: 12 FWHM) of celestial gamma-ray sources in the energy range 15 keV to 10 MeV with concurrent source monitoring in the X-ray (3 35 keV) and optical (V, 550 nm) range. The mission is conceived as an observatory led by ESA with contri...

with diffuse fibrosis, the lymph node architecture may not be recognized because of total replacement of the lymph nodes. Nonspecific enlargement of otherwise normal-looking lymph nodes, as well as coarse reticular pattern, may occasionally be observed. Increased numbers of nodes are often seen in infants and children. There are no adenographic patterns pathognomonic of Hodgkin's disease (7). T...

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