i p h c i he vigorous controversy about the ecent recommendation of the US reventive Services Task Force USPSTF) [1] against routine creening mammography for heathy, low-risk women aged 40 to 0 years has demonstrated our road national consensus about the alue of preventive medicine in eneral and breast cancer screening pecifically. Nonetheless, many of he recent dissenting commentaries n this i...

m o w ackground & Aims: Colorectal cancer screening is efective and cost-effective, but little data from health lan settings are available inform decision-makers rearding direct economic implications of colorectal caner screening programs. The purpose of this study was o compare the prediagnosis evaluation and first-year reatment costs of persons diagnosed with colorectal ancer, stratified by w...

6 artner counseling and referral services (PCRS) are one aspect of care available to HIV-positive people and the partners with whom they have sex and/or hare hypodermic needles. The goal of referral (providng the names of these partners) is to notify partners of heir potential exposure to HIV. Notified partners are rged to be tested for HIV: If they test negative they can eceive prevention coun...

o a t he field of colon cancer screening has evolved dramatically in the last 15 years regarding evidence, guideines, and practice. In 1990, no evidence from a randomized ontrolled clinical trial (RCT) existed to show that colorecal cancer (CRC) screening was effective in reducing CRC ortality. In 1990, although some guidelines endorsed creening, there was disagreement among recommending rganiz...

1 Chapter I: Introduction 2 Previous Attempts to Isolate Priming Pheromones 6 Puberty-accelerating Male Urinary Chemosignal 7 .. Pubert-delaying Female Urinary Chemosignal 12 Pregnancy-blocking Male Urinary Chemosignal 14 Estrus-synchronizing Male Urinary Chemosignal 17 Gonadotrophin-secretion Female Urinary Chemosignal 19 Similarities in the Nature of Priming Pheromones 21 Previous Attempts to...

S creening and case-finding strategies in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remain controversial, with strong opinions all over, and with any statement raising both interest and criticism. Yet, the success of an earlier diagnosis would undoubtedly produce substantial public health benefits. Expert consensus states that there are 210 million people in the world suffering from COPD [1]...

S creening for maternal depression in clinical and community settings has been the topic of numerous recent studies and an important component of the 2009 Institute of Medicine report Depression in Parents, Parenting, and Children. According to the report, however, studies of maternal depression screening have largely ignored the implications of comorbid mental health conditions on screening ap...

objective: this study was performed to evaluate the mental health status of 6 - 11 year-old children of tehran in a community-based sample using the persian version of the strength and difficulties questionnaire (sdq) parent-report. method: parents of 799 children (6 to 11 years old) were selected from 250 clusters of the entire 22 municipality areas of tehran; they responded to 25 questions of...