BACKGROUND Tonsillectomy with or without adenoidectomy is one of the most common surgical procedures performed worldwide, especially for children. Oral honey administration following tonsillectomy in pediatric cases may reduce the need for analgesics via relieving postoperative pain. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of honey on the incidence and severity of postope...

Drugs that flow from humans into the environment may include the lingering analgesic diclofenac, the long-lasting antiepileptic carbamazepine, the omnipresent antibiotic ciprofloxacin, and even seemingly mundane painkillers like ibuprofen, gemfibrozil, and naproxen, not to mention synthetic estrogens. The problem has led to government hearings at the state and federal levels and to scientific m...

Background: Substance abuse is one of the main health problems in Iran and awareness about its spread and procedure of spread in the society, particularly the susceptible society of students, is very important with regard to the population pyramid of Iran. Methods: This study was performed by cross-sectional method. The sampling size was 610 male students in pre-university grade by a probabilis...

BACKGROUND The uptake of evidence-based guidelines in clinical practice is suboptimal in osteoarthritis (OA) and other chronic diseases. Good Life with osteoArthritis in Denmark (GLA:D) was launched in 2013 with the aim of implementing guidelines for the treatment of knee and hip OA in clinical care nationwide. The purpose of this report was to evaluate the effects of the GLA:D intervention fro...

SUMMARY It is the position of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) that the safe and effective management of opioid pain reliever (OPR)‐related overdose in schools be incorporated into the school emergency preparedness and response plan. The registered professional school nurse (hereinafter referred to as school nurse) provides leadership in all phases of emergency preparedness and ...

Material and information flows are often complex at remanufacturing companies. Minimum time for Material and Information Flows Analysis (MiniMifa) is a data collection workshop in which material and information flows’ challenges and improvement opportunities are investigated. By carrying the idea of Value Stream Mapping (VSM), MiniMifa turns to an act of cartography of industrial processes. Aft...

The α-subunit of tetrodotoxin-resistant voltage-gated sodium channel Na(V)1.8 is selectively expressed in sensory neurons. It has been reported that Na(V)1.8 is involved in the transmission of nociceptive information from sensory neurons to the central nervous system in nociceptive [1] and neuropathic [24] pain conditions. Thus Na(V)1.8 has been a promising target to treat chronic pain. Here we...