1 Brightling CE. Clinical applications of induced sputum. Chest 2006; 129:1344–1348 2 Brightling CE. Chronic cough due to nonasthmatic eosinophilic bronchitis: ACCP evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Chest 2006; 129(suppl):116S–121S 3 Melvin R. Pratter MR, Brightling CE, et al. An empiric integrative approach to the management of cough: ACCP evidence-based clinical practice guidelines...

BACKGROUND Reports regarding hand hygiene compliance (HHC) among hospital visitors are limited. Although there is an implicit assumption that the availability of alcohol-based hand sanitizer (AHS) promotes visitor HHC, the degree of AHS use by visitors remains unclear. To assess AHS use, we observed visitor HHC and how it is affected by visual cues in a private university hospital. METHODS Us...

Pan African Medical Journal. 2017;28:152. doi:10.11604/pamj.2017.28.152.12362 This article is available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/28/152/full/ © Mustafa Nkaoui et al. The Pan African Medical Journal ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...

Pan African Medical Journal. 2017; 28:161 doi:10.11604/pamj.2017.28.161.12439 This article is available online at: http://www.panafrican-med-journal.com/content/article/28/161/full/ © Mustafa Nkaoui et al. The Pan African Medical Journal ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, that has been more frequently diagnosed lately and whose importance has been gradually understood better, is a widespread health problem. This syndrome has been accompanied by obesity frequently. In the obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, it has been known that hypoxia and sometimes hypercarbia additionally has been observed, nevertheless cardiovascular problems ...

T ypical enterprise IT environments consist of numerous independent and distributed servers, networks, and storage devices. To improve efficiency, customers increasingly seek to bring these disparate systems under one umbrella of control. Utility computing facilitates this effort by aggregating such systems into a single, centrally managed pool of resources. To adequately address user expectati...

Pendred's syndrome was described in a Sudanese family and its affected members were studied in details. They were a boy (aged 14 years) and a girl (11 years of age) each showing a goitre, a positive perchlorate discharge test, marked sensorineural deafness and evidence of mild hypothyroidism. This study adds an entity to the congenital dyshormonogenesis recognised so far in the Sudan.

While many who hear auditory hallucinations (AHs) experience them as unpleasant, some do not. Little is known about the correlates of AHs that are not unpleasant, or of the characteristics of those who hear them. To better understand this symptom, we used a comprehensive structured interview schedule to study 199 subjects who had experienced AHs. Subjects' responses to AHs were combined into tw...

1 Brightling CE. Clinical applications of induced sputum. Chest 2006; 129:1344–1348 2 Brightling CE. Chronic cough due to nonasthmatic eosinophilic bronchitis: ACCP evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Chest 2006; 129(suppl):116S–121S 3 Melvin R. Pratter MR, Brightling CE, et al. An empiric integrative approach to the management of cough: ACCP evidence-based clinical practice guidelines...