Después de años de un continuado crecimiento muy por encima el de nuestro producto interior bruto, el gasto sanitario empieza mostrar inequívocamente su frenada. Las alegrías de su pasado umento se tornan en tristeza y decaimiento, con una verosímil endencia a ir a menos. Es comprensible que la situación no suscite legría, pero no deja de extrañar la generalizada preocupación por l «mal color» ...

Oral iodized oil is the major alternative to iodized salt for correcting endemic iodine deficiency. This study responds to a need for better guidelines in its use. Schoolchildren, aged 6-11 yr, from a severely iodine-deficient area of Algeria received iodized poppy seed oil (Lipiodol) in a single oral dose containing 120, 240, 480, or 960 mg iodine (groups A-D) or in an im injection of 480 mg i...

This erratum is being published to correct the third author's name. The third author, Young-Woo Kim should read as Ying-Yu Jin. Young-Woo Kim is a Korean-Chinese. The original legal name of Young-Woo Kim is Ying-Yu Jin. The corrected version of this article is available in the Archive (http://jmb.or.kr).

Title: Individual-level and Community-level Determinants of Cervical Cancer Screening among Kenyan Women: A Multilevel Analysis of a Nationwide Survey Authors: Fentanesh Tiruneh ([email protected]) Kun-Yang Chuang ([email protected]) Peter Ntenda ([email protected]) Ying-Chih Chuang ([email protected]) Version: 2 Date: 11 Sep 2017 Author’s response to reviews: Responses to reviewers...

Argemone mexicana Linn. (Linnaeus, 1753; Tournefort, 1694), is a herb of the Papaveraceae (poppy family) indigenous to the West Indies (Fig. 1). The study of this herb and its active principles is important, first to circumvent the serious epidemics of dropsy and glaucoma resulting from the unintentional ingestion of its seed oil in tropical countries; secondly to find a method of producing in ...

White rot caused by Sclerotium cepivorum Berk is a significant threat to garlic and onion industry in the United States. The pathogen produces a great number of poppy seed-sized sclerotia, which can survive in soil for many years. Populations of just a few sclerotia per liter soil can potentially cause severe disease and result in crop failure. Once the land has been infested, it is generally c...

The aim of this study was to investigate levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (marker and dioxin-like congeners), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (EPA 15 + 1), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (14 predominant congeners) and pesticides (74 compounds) in various cold-pressed vegetable oils. Poppy seed oil, rapeseed oil, sesame seed oil, pumpkinseed oil, hempseed oil, linaire oil, borage oil and eve...

In a vegetation pot experiment we explored the effect of fertilizers with potassium (KCl; 0.9 g K2O/6 kg soil) and magnesium (ESTA Kieserite; 0.3 MgO/6 applied together or separately to poppy on soil good K Mg supply seed yield, oil content cadmium in seed. Seed yields increased significantly after application KCl ESTA Kieserite, respectively by 23.89% 21.68%, as compared unfertilized control. ...

Direcció General de Planificació i Recerca, Generalitat de Catalunya, Definir a Ignasi Balaguer Vintró como un cardiólogo convertido n epidemiólogo sería equívoco, ya que compaginó ambas funcioes, al igual que hicieron otros ilustres pioneros de la epidemiología e las enfermedades no transmisibles, algunos de ellos congénees suyos, como Paul Dudley White, Jeremiah Stamler, Ancel Keys, enry Blac...