Self-rated health (SRH) is widely recognized as a comprehensive indicator of health. Its comprehensiveness is often referred to as surprising because the indicator is based on a single question. Yet, numerous studies have demonstrated that this question may include more relevant aspects of health than can be measured in a survey, however broad the range of health measures used. The most widely ...

Using cognitive neuroscience as a reference discipline, this study aims to investigate the effect of input device on brain activity, and the effect of these brain activities on the cognitive process of memory retrieval. Oscillations on the scalp are classified into four frequency bands: Delta (0 to < 4 Hz), Theta (4 to < 8Hz), Alpha (8 to 13 Hz), and beta (>13 Hz). Many studies have been perfor...

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Using data from the Survey of Health and Living Status of the Elderly in Taiwan, we investigate changes in difficulties in walking and climbing stairs, tasks that represent basic lower-body movements less likely to be influenced by changes in environment and social roles than are activities and instrumental activities of daily living. Results are shown for unadjusted prevalence rates and rates ...

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We are observing and analyzing changes in the light curves of a few W Ursae Majoris binaries. This paper summarizes the objectives of our program and the rationale behind our choice of stars and observational strategy. It also describes, briefly, our approach to the seasonal optimization of our reductions, and our two primary analytic approaches (phase-bin and Wilson-Devinney). 1. Program objec...

Two weeks later, he was seen in our lipid clinic. He was thin the dose. It is not yet known if use of ritonavir is safe for patients with abnormal lipid values at baseline; however, further investiga(weight, 63 kg) and muscle wasting was noted, but otherwise the examination findings were unremarkable. The CD4/ lymtion is warranted. phocyte count was 517/mm, and the viral load, as determined by ...

Age-related diseases and functional decline put health care systems at a challenge. It is still unclear, whether a compression or extension of morbidity or some sort of balance is likely to be expected. Probably, different scenarios may either coexist or change depending upon both the type of health outcome (particular diseases, multi-morbidity and disability) and contextual factors (socioecono...

Unlike previous Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) meetings, the AIM Symposium was organized around a single source of medical knowledge, the 1991 article “Graft-Versus-Host Disease (GVHD)” by Dr. James L. M. Ferrara and Dr. H. Joachim Deeg (New England Journal of Medicine 324:667). Presenters were also given three clinical vignettes in GVHD to use as examples in their talks or poster pr...

Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. The standard of care for GVHD prophylaxis in myeloablative transplants is methotrexate (MTX) in combination with a calcineurin inhibitor. Despite its efficacy, MTX may increase the risk of complications such as mucositis and delayed hematopoiesis and contribute ...