A Asensio ([email protected])1, T Alvarez-Espejo2, J Fernandez-Crehuet3, A Ramos2, J Vaque-Rafart4, C Bishopberger5, M J Hernández Navarrete6, F Calbo-Torrecillas7, J Campayo8, R Canton9, on behalf of the Estudio de Prevalencia de las Infecciones Nosocomiales en España (EPINE) Working Group10 1. Department of Preventive Medicine, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro, Madrid, Spa...

Social medicine is recognized as one of medical specialties in many countries. However, social medicine has never been formally introduced to Korea, presumably because the term and its principles were not accepted for some years in the past in American medicine, which has strongly influenced Korean medicine. This paper describes the origins and evolution of social medicine and briefly discusses...

Preterm labor is the final common pathway after several potential insults to the fetomaternal unit. As a common cause, intrauterine infections (both clinically evident and subclinical) are associated with increased proinflammatory cytokine concentrations in the amniotic fluid and the gestational tissues. This fact represents the trigger for “the intrauterine inflammatory response syndrome” as a...

a condensed, concise, yet clear and complete manner. The matter in the book in other hands might well have expanded into several volumes, for this relief the reader should be thankful, and indeed in spite of compression the searcher for information will seldom or never be disappointed. ' The book does not purport to be a laboratory manual, and all but the necessary details of such work are righ...

AIDS is the final stage of the disease caused by HIV. It attacks the defense cells of the body, leaving the body vulnerable to all kinds of diseases. Therapeutic agents are divided according to their mechanism of action, nucleoside or nucleotide transcriptase inhibitor, non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, protease inhibitors, fusion inhibitor, entry inhibitor and integrase inhibito...

The experiment was initiated in the first instance for one year's trial period, in June 1958, with the approval of the County Council and the Ministry of Health. Care was taken, at the outset, to assure local general practitioners that there was no intention of usurping their own functions and that full reports would be supplied to them on any of their patients who were examined. No difficulty ...

The objectives of our study were to evaluate two diagnostic methods (with and without x-ray) and to investigate the efficacy of barium meal examination. Material and methods. We performed a clinical randomized study at 675 subjects (aged 4 month-18 years) from University Children Hospital Iaşi (the only pediatric endoscopies department from North-East of Romania) and Students Hospital Iaşi. The...