OBJECTIVES The purposes of the study were to describe and to analyze the types of policies and practices that exist currently among state newborn screening programs in relation to long-term follow-up oversight and activities for newborns with confirmed disorders and to examine the perceptions of newborn screening program leaders regarding long-term follow-up activities. METHODS A 23-question ...

BACKGROUND Although fillers and surgical lip lifts are effective ways of treating the perioral area, both have inherent downsides. Fillers lack permanence, and lip lifts do not address the issue of fullness. OBJECTIVES The authors present the results of a long-term follow-up study of Permafacial implants (SurgiSil LLC, Plano, Texas) for lip augmentation. This report is a follow-up from their ...

We would like to report follow-up data from our published study, evaluating the impact of a television soap opera on the NHS Cervical Screening Programme in the North West of England, and some national data. As part of a long-term follow-up, we examined the mediumterm effect of the story-line. We performed a further analysis of women resident in Manchester Health Authority. One hypothesis was t...

BACKGROUND The treatment of chronic daily headache (CDH) due to medication overuse remains a common and difficult problem. For selected patients refractory to outpatient management we have used a treatment protocol using dihydroergotamine (DHE) as introduced by Raskin, during a brief (typically 48 hours) in-patient stay. While many studies have documented the short-term efficacy of the DHE prot...

OBJECTIVE The present study examined the efficacy of bibliotherapy in assisting individuals experiencing distress related to tinnitus. METHODS One hundred sixty-two tinnitus sufferers from Australia participated in a study designed to examine the effectiveness of a cognitive-behaviorally based self-help book in reducing distress. To maximize the ecological validity of the findings, we exclude...

Mobile phone text messaging is a potentially powerful tool for behavior change because it is widely available, inexpensive, and instant. This systematic review provides an overview of behavior change interventions for disease management and prevention delivered through text messaging. Evidence on behavior change and clinical outcomes was compiled from randomized or quasi-experimental controlled...

Many techniques for management of hypertrophic scars and keloids have been proven through extensive use, but few have been supported by prospective studies with adequate control groups. Several new therapies showed good results in small-scale trials, but these have not been repeated in larger trials with long-term follow-up. This article reports a qualitative overview of the available clinical ...

This clinical report describes the treatment and long-term follow-up of a patient with Sjogren's syndrome treated with osseointegrated implants and a mandibular fixed complete denture. The implants and prosthesis have remained stable and functional for 13 years. Implant treatment may, therefore, offer a viable long-term treatment alternative for patients with Sjogren's syndrome.

OBJECTIVE The present study examined the long-term photoepilatory effect on blond and white hair of a combined intense pulsed light (680-980 nm) device with a bipolar radiofrequency component producing electrical current at a depth of 4 mm. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-six adult women with white and blond hair (skin phenotypes I-V) were included in the study. The chin and upper lip were treat...

BACKGROUND Although the initial effectiveness of psychosocial strategies programming in preventing smoking and other drug abuse among adolescents has been well established through literature reviews and meta-analyses, much less evidence exists for the long-term follow-up success of these interventions. The primary goal of this paper, therefore, is to summarize the effectiveness of published pro...