Fast Five Quiz: Ovarian Cancer Overview Worldwide, more than 200,000 women are estimated to develop ovarian cancer, and about 100,000 die of the disease every year. Do you know key components of ...

Other Investigations The number of commercially available investigations is growing rapidly. Human beta-defensin-2 (HBD2) is a protein produced by intestinal epithelial cells (Paneth cells) on contact ...

Conclusions This study adds to the very limited literature about how commonly GDs provide directly a comprehensive range of procedures, and factors associated with this provision. As a group, GDs do ...

In addition to anticipating that there may be more patients presenting with psychiatric symptoms, primary care clinics should routinely assess the degree of concern about exposure-related illness ...

Five-year View Current evidence is inadequate to recommend treatment of all women with subclinical hypothyroidism, but the ongoing trial will provide new evidence on this association. Future studies ...

Children are especially vulnerable. Other high-risk groups are pregnant women, nonimmune travelers (those with little prior exposure), refugees, displaced persons, and laborers entering endemic areas.

Tramadol is a synthetic centrally acting analgesic that binds weakly to µ-receptors. At the same time, it stimulates descendent inhibitory pathways in the spinal cord by enhancing release and ...

Conclusions This article provides a significant contribution to the literature regarding levels of vitamin D in patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitis. With our findings, and considering that ...

Guideline 56. Use of Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) of the Thyroid FNA is recommended for all palpable solitary or dominant nodules, independent of size. FNA is preferred over thyroid scan or ...

Upper urinary tract transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) refers to malignant changes of the transitional epithelial cells lining the urinary tract from the renal calyces to the ureteral orifice. Although ...

Evidence on Synbiotics No systematic review focusing specifically on synbiotics was found. In one recent, double-blind RCT conducted in Finland, 1223 pregnant women carrying high-risk infants were ...

Abstract Malaria represents one of the most serious threats to human health worldwide, and preventing and curing this parasitic disease still depends predominantly on the administration of a small ...