A series of eight axillary skin defect reconstructions in seven patients using the lateral thoracic island fasciocutaneous flap is presented. The defects originated from wide excision of recurrent hidradenitis axillaris suppurativa and in one case from radical melanoma resection with axillary lymph node clearance. The technique used to cover the resulting large defects is advancement or transpo...

Many people seem to have a secret hangover remedy they swear by and many companies are banking on the fact that those "morning after" hangover symptoms can be downright awful. A word to the wise, however: the only real "cure" for a hangover is time. In the meantime, nourishing the body can help to overcome a hangover by treating [2] the symptoms. In terms of that flashy new hangover cure you me...

BACKGROUND Nourishing "Yin"-Removing "Fire" Chinese Herb Mixture, a traditional herb-based formulation, has been successfully used for the management of idiopathic true precocious puberty (IPP) for more than thirty years. Precocious puberty rat model by neonatal administration of Danazol was used to investigate the effects of the herb mixture on the advanced sexual development of the rats, and ...

Many people seem to have a secret hangover remedy they swear by and many companies are banking on the fact that those "morning after" hangover symptoms can be downright awful. A word to the wise, however: the only real "cure" for a hangover is time. In the meantime, nourishing the body can help to overcome a hangover by treating [2] the symptoms. In terms of that flashy new hangover cure you me...

The soil nourishing the crops that provide our food and fiber is a complex environment where microbes live in numbers estimated to reach 2 billion per ounce of soil. Millions upon millions of individual bacteria and fungi Uve on root surfaces and the soil particles that surround them. Bacteria are the smallest and the most abundant. The fungi, usually larger than bacteria, are found throughout ...

The placenta is critical for nourishing the fetus throughout pregnancy, and also produces hormones that alter the metabolic functions of the mother. While the effects of nutrition on fetal development and long-term outcome have been very well documented, there are only a few reports based on studies in rat, sheep, and guinea pigs on how specific nutrients or general nutritional status affect th...