We qualitatively and quantitatively investigated the parathyroid glands of golden hamsters aged 6, 12, 18, 24 and 30 months. Percent area of rER in the parathyroid gland in golden hamsters at 24 months of age was significantly higher when compared to 6 and 12 months of age, and the percent area at 30 months of age was significantly higher when compared to 12 months of age, but there were no sig...

copayments for prescription medications led to decreases in their use of eight classes of therapeutic drugs, according to a new study cofunded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (HS13447). Researchers linked pharmacy claims data representing nearly 530,000 people aged 18 to 64. All of the subjects had employer-sponsored health insurance, with health benefit designs from 52 privat...

OBJECTIVE We evaluated the efficacy of family-based, behavioral weight control in the management of severe pediatric obesity. METHODS Participants were 192 children 8.0 to 12.0 years of age (mean +/- SD: 10.2 +/- 1.2 years). The average BMI percentile for age and gender was 99.18 (SD: 0.72). Families were assigned randomly to the intervention or usual care. Assessments were conducted at basel...

Dietary weight loss regimens could be more effective by selectively targeting adipose while sparing lean mass (LM) if predictive information about individuals' lipid metabolic responses to an intervention were available. The objective of this study was to examine the relationships among changes in 4 anthropometric outcomes, weight, waist circumference (WC), percent body fat (BF), and percent LM...

Objectives: To determine progress of women presenting with dysfunctional uterine bleeding (i.e decrease in amount and duration of bleeding in days) due to a cause amenable to treatment. To evaluate improvement in Haemoglobin level (Hb gm%) in patients during treatment. Material and Methods: The study was conducted in the Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics, Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar,...