In the beautiful archipelago of Stockholm, there was a satellite symposium in connection with the World Congress of Medicine in 1980. The role of calcium was then a hot topic in the cerebral ischemic cascade.1 A paper presented at the symposium demonstrated that a calcium blocker was able to decrease the size of brain infarction in rats. Already then I had a few reservations about such experime...

Illicit use of performance-enhancing drugs is a major problem in sports. Since 1967, the International Olympic Committee and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have issued continuously updated lists of prohibited substances. In 1989, the first polypeptide hormones, human growth hormone (hGH), human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and adrenocorticotropin, were included in the list (1, 2 ). Presen...

Chronic rhinosinusitis is among the most common chronic diseases. It presents a major financial burden to the health care system [1], not to mention the burden of personal suffering and morbidity to the patient with debilitating chronic rhinosinusitis. Chronic rhinosinusitis is not a uniform entity, and its clinical presentations and etiologies may vary. Environmental factors predispose patient...

Purpose:Tumor-associated macrophage (TAM) content predicts survival in follicular lymphoma (FL) patients treated with chemotherapy. The aim of this study was to determine how combination of rituximab with chemotherapy influencesTAM-associated clinical outcome. Experimental Design: Expressionof amacrophagemarker, CD68,was determined immunohistochemically from FL samples of 96 patients treated wi...

Objective: The health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of adults with childhood diagnosis of specific language impairment (SLI) was evaluated. Patients and Methods: Fifty-two patients with a childhood diagnosis of SLI were asked to fill out the 15D-HRQoL questionnaire. The patients were selected from a hospital setting from psychological examination reports showing a below-average verbal intelli...

ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect variables on level trust, service quality, religiosity, and corporate image customer loyalty in Bank Syariah Indonesia (BSI), a new bank resulting from merger three state-owned banks, namely BRI Syariah, BNI Mandiri Syariah. uses quantitative approaches with causality description techniques. analysis technique used is Partial Least S...

New renormalization-group algorithms are developed with adaptive representations of the renormalized system which automatically express only signi cant interactions. As the amount of statistics grows, more interactions enter, thereby systematically reducing the truncation error. This allows statistically optimal calculation of thermodynamic limits, in the sense that it achieves accuracy " in ju...