There is a dearth of experiment on the human subject. Test-tube experiments on foodstuffs are helpful, but are not sufficient to allow of dogmatic statements about their dietary influences. To advise an unrestricted diet and give significance only to strongly positive reactions is an approach with a superficial appeal (Ratnoff, 1923; Alvarez and Wight, 192); Levin and Watt, 1949; Needham and Si...

BACKGROUND K-ras mutation in a tumour is a powerful negative predictor for treatment success. Identifying tumour K-ras mutation is complex, and could be simplified by an appropriate blood test. Clinical studies were identified in which K-ras mutation status was assessed in both blood and tumour to ascertain whether blood K-ras mutation is predictive of tumour K-ras mutation. Between 29% and 100...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to establish the number of unnecessary preoperative blood tests undertaken on ASA Grade 1 patients undergoing minor/moderate orthopaedic trauma surgery. DESIGN Review of all ASA1 patients who had been operated on the trauma lists for three consecutive months. SETTING UK Teaching Hospital. PARTICIPANTS Patients with ages ranging between 16 and 60 years, ...

The European project "HIV community-based testing practices in Europe" (HIV-COBATEST) has contributed to the establishment of a network of community-based voluntary counselling and testing services (CBVCTs) that monitors and evaluates HIV testing activity in the communities. The objective of this paper is to describe the data that have been collected during 2014 by the COBATEST network in order...

A new blood test, ADtect ® , has been developed that can aid the early detection of Alzheimer's Disease (AD). The test is based on measuring the expression of selected genes in blood and is defined as the AD-specific gene signature. ADtect ® comprises a low density array of 96 selected gene assays using RNA extracted from a blood sample. The performance of each of the 96 gene assays is calculat...

not only by referring those cases which he desires the consultant to see but by filtering all his cases through the consultant clinic at least twice, early in the ante-natal period and again at the thirty-sixth week, even if he is delivering the patient in her own home or in a General Practitioner Hospital or Home. In other cases the consultant may reciprocate by getting the general practitione...

153 SCREENING FOR COLORECTAL CANCER WITH FECAL OCCULT BLOOD TESTING AND COLONOSCOPY: CORRELATION OF CLINICAL DATA, SITE, SIZE AND DISEASE’S STAGE Iuliana Taraşi, Gabriela Florenţa Dumitrescu, Anca Indrei, P. Plămădeală, Anca Trifan, C. Stanciu, 1 Departament of Gastroenterology, „St. Spiridon” Emergency Clinical Hospital Iaşi 2 Department of Pathology, „Prof. Dr. N. Oblu” Emergency Clinical Hos...

PURPOSE Because the true prevalence of food allergy (FA), as based on the results of an oral food challenge test (OFC), is unknown, it is likely that children with suspected FA unnecessarily eliminate potentially causative foods. This study aimed to identify the prevalence of FA and to determine the proportion of children who unnecessarily eliminate food. METHODS To identify children with FA,...

Innovative human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing services will be needed to achieve the first 90 (90% of HIV-positive persons aware of their infection status) of the 90-90-90 target in China. Here, we describe an internet-based urine delivery testing service delivered through three pilot drugstores in Beijing that send specimens to a designated laboratory for HIV. From May 2016 to January ...