102 British Journal of General Practice, February 2013 The Australian Family Physician (AFP ) is the journal of the RCGP’s Australian cousin, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners — consider it Neighbours to the BJGP’s Eastenders. The AFP has started an interesting series of articles looking at the evidence behind some medical aphorisms. They have examined whether a careful hist...

Chitosan is a natural polymer that can be used as source of materials because it has good characteristics. in the cosmetic sector humectant, thickener, moisturizer, antioxidant, sunscreen cream, and stabilizer. The shell chitosan shells an emulsion stabilizer Hand Body Cream product problems its unstable nature so oil water are easily separated. parameters observed were stability, pH, TPC. resu...

aloe vera is a tropical plant belonging to the liliaceae family. it has beneficialeffects in variety of diseases. the aim of this study was to formulate a topical cream from a. vera with wound burn healing effect and to perform its clinical trial. a total of 30 patients (20 males and 10 females in the age range of 20-50 years) with second degree burn wounds on their both hands were selected for...

Abstract Introduction: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (TDCS) can modulate intrinsic cortical activity by stimulating specific brain areas. TDCS produces peripheral somatosensory co-stimulation that may contribute to the neuro-modulatory effects and hamper effective blinding. Objective: To assess how topical administration of numbing cream modifies subjective tingling experience during ...

The interactions between the effects of three plumage color mutations taken two-by-two (sex-linked recessive roux, autosomal recessive lavender, and autosomal dominant beige) were studied in Japanese quail by producing a total of 121 F(1) and 1118 F(2) quail from the three pure stocks. Three new plumage colors were obtained in F(2) quail: roux-diluted beige, cream, and lavender-diluted beige. T...

From 25 August to 28 September 1994, 7 cardiovascular surgery (CVS) patients at a California hospital acquired postoperative Serratia marcescens infections, and 1 died. To identify the outbreak source, a cohort study was done of all 55 adults who underwent CVS at the hospital during the outbreak. Specimens from the hospital environment and from hands of selected staff were cultured. S. marcesce...

Organic material-based computer memory devices are critical for lowering the amount of electronic waste. Toward this end, we here present resistive switching property metal-insulator-metal type consisting active layers made raw organic cow milk. Our were up fat-free, medium cream, and full cream milk sandwiched between indium-doped tin oxide silver electrodes. These created without use heat or ...

Atopic dermatitis (AD) affects adults and children and has a negative impact on quality of life. The present multicentre randomized double-blind controlled trial showed a barrier-improving cream (5% urea) to be superior to a reference cream in preventing eczema relapse in patients with AD (hazard ratio 0.634, p = 0.011). The risk of eczema relapse was reduced by 37% (95% confidence interval (95...

Ice cream contains high sugar content and therefore it is in contradiction with the concept of healthy diet. The objective of this study is to determine the suitability of using stevia as an alternative natural sweetener in making ice cream. Inhouse ice cream formulation (as the control) and three different concentrations of stevia ice cream formulations of (A, B and C) were used. Physical prop...