“No, actually it is not a headache”

Throbbing headache is not always migraine; it can be serious

Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is a rare but serious venous thrombotic disorder in the general population. It has an estimated annual incidence of about 4-5 cases per 1 million persons. It is more common in females than males. We describe below a case of a 49-year-old female patient who presented to the emergency room with 1 day history of right-sided throbbing headache associated with vomiti...

Top-Down Unsupervised Image Segmentation (it sounds like oxymoron, but actually it is not)

Pattern recognition is generally assumed as an interaction of two inversely directed image-processing streams: the bottom-up information details gathering and localization (segmentation) stream, and the top-down information features aggregation, association and interpretation (recognition) stream. Inspired by recent evidence from biological vision research and by the insights of Kolmogorov Comp...

Plasmodium vivax malaria: is it actually benign?

UNLABELLED Plasmodium vivax (Pv) malaria is being increasingly recognized as a cause of severe malaria in children. OBJECTIVES To describe the various severe manifestations associated with vivax malaria by retrospective analysis of records. METHODS Children between the ages of 0 and 18 years with a confirmed diagnosis of Pv malaria monoinfection done by peripheral blood film (PBF) and/or ra...

Formalizing Set Theory as It Is Actually

health communication what it is and what is not