A technique for monitoring healthcare via the processing of routinely collected narrative documentation is presented. A checklist of important details of asthma management in use in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary (GRI) was translated into SQL queries and applied to a database of 59 GRI discharge summaries analyzed by the New York University Linguistic String Project medical language processor. Tab...

BACKGROUND Despite having high levels of combat exposure, commando and airborne forces may be at less risk of mental ill-health than other troops. AIMS To examine differences in mental health outcomes and occupational risk factors between Royal Marines Commandos (RMCs), paratroopers (PARAs) and other army infantry (INF). METHODS Three groups of personnel (275 RMCs, 202 PARAs and 572 INF) we...

Royalactin, a component of royal jelly, induces queen differentiation in honeybees. Surprisingly, royalactin has a similar effect on growth in fruit flies, highlighting many unexpected features of growth regulation by the insect fat tissue.

Public interest in the naval seaman grew dramatically during the second half of the nineteenth century in Britain. Images of the British bluejacket entered the popular imagination through such diverse means as advertising, entertainment, newspapers, politics and philanthropy. Yet these images were hardly consistent. While some representations portrayed naval seamen as dutiful patriotic servants...

The nutritional needs of bees are supplied by nectar carbohydrates and by protein and other nutrients in pollen but little is known of how bees achieve nutritional balance. Using newly emerged caged worker honeybees (Apis mellifera scutellata), we investigated whether bees maintain their intake target when confined to pairs of imbalanced complementary diets varying in protein to carbohydrate (P...

AIM Implant-related infections are still a significant problem in spinal surgical procedures. Many drugs and methods have been tried to prevent implant-related infections. Our objective in this study was to evaluate whether royal jelly, which was found to hinder the growth of MRSA, has any preventive role in the prognosis of an infection in rats in an implant-related infection model. MATERIAL...

Whole royal jelly, when premixed with tumor cells before inoculation, has been shown to inhibit completely the development of transplantable AKR leukemia and of three lines of mouse ascitic tumors. Fractionation studies have established that all, or nearly all, of the in vitro antitumor activity of whole royal jelly can be accounted for in the major component of the ether-soluble fatty acid fra...

the aim of this experiment was to study the effect of in ovoinjection of royal jelly (rj) on growth performance and immune response in broiler chickens challenged with newcastle disease virus. a total of 200 hatching eggs were divided into four groups of 50 eggs each one using a completely randomized design. the eggs were injected with sterilized sodium bicarbonate buffer (ph=10.4) or rj (88%) ...