Project ECHO in Belarus: outcomes of 3-year experience

Endoscopic frontoplasty: 3-year experience.

UNLABELLED Endoscopic forehead lift (EFL) represents a significant progress, even replacing the classic coronal and pretriquial techniques. AIM To demonstrate a series of cases and to evaluate results and complications with EFL in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology of the Federal University of Uberlândia. MATERIALS AND METHODS From January 2001 to January 2004, 67 patients were submitted...

Physical Activity in the Elderly with Fall Experience Over the Past Year: Results from Amirkola Health and Ageing Project

Background and purpose: Nowadays, immobility is known to be the fourth risk factor for mortality. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between fall experience over the previous year and levels of physical activity in the elderly. Materials and Methods: The study was performed with 1616 participants of 60≤ years. The relationship between physical activities in the el...

A 3-Year Survey of Mushroom-Poisoned Patients: Clinical Features, Management and Outcomes

NEMESYS: First Year Project Experience in Telecom Italia Information Technology

Nowadays smartphones are ubiquitous, their usage continues to grow all over the world. With the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) estimating global mobile subscriptions at 6 billion at the end of 2011, it is calculated that global smartphones penetration is now 16.7 percent [7]. Smartphones are devices built on full-fledged operating systems, with advanced computing capabilities and e...

Two-year behavior outcomes of project towards no tobacco use.

The article presents 2-year follow-up data from a school-based tobacco use prevention project designed to test the effectiveness of 3 primary components in social influence programs. The components either teach refusal skills, awareness of social value misperceptions, or physical consequences. Curricula were tested with a randomized experiment involving 48 junior high schools. These data sugges...