Behavioral treatment of drooling is advocated widely, but evidence of its effectiveness is lacking. In a center-based case-series study, 10 participants with severe drooling were taught self-management skills to reduce drooling. Following treatment, all participants remained dry for intervals of 30-60 min, while being engaged in daily activities. Generalization to the classroom occurred in each...

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 11421 “Foundations of distributed data management”. Seminar 16.–21. October, 2011 – www.dagstuhl.de/11421 1998 ACM Subject Classification C.2.4 Distributed Systems, H.2 Database Management, H.3.5 Online Information Services

Background and Objectives: Complete revascularization is not possible in up to 37% of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Therapeutic angiogenesis may be considered as an option in the management of these patients. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of therapeutic angiogenesis using basic fibroblast growth factor in patients with ...

in this case we report the detection of lymph node metastases in a 52 years old patient with mycosis fungoides utilising 18f- fdg-pet/ct which led to a change in the management of the patient.

a nine month old infant was taken to a rural medical center due to hematemesis and melena. the bleeding persisted in spite of active management with gastric lavage, intravenous cimetidine, antiacid therapy and blood transfusion for four days' duration. the patient was referred to our center for further evaluation and management. on arrival he was pale and ill looking with active bleeding f...

Introduction: Nosocomial infection (NI) is an infection occurring in a patient after 48 hours of hospitalization or up to 72 hours after discharge from the hospital, which was not present or incubating at the time of admission.  Hospital accreditation standards have a significant impact on the prevention and control of NI. Nevertheless, Iran’s hospital accreditation standards face challenges. T...

background and aim kindler syndrome is a subtype of epidermolysis bullosa with gingival fragility and periodontitis as common oral manifestations of these patients. because of the early onset and rapid progression of periodontitis in these patients, clinical management of their oral status is an important aspect of their multidisciplinary care and treatment case presentation we present a succes...

background and objectives: services quality has become the major concern of policy-makers in the present rapidly growing consumer-oriented health industry. however, there is a major gap in the relevant literature in malaysia in this particular field. thus, this research attempted to narrow this gap by conducting a qualitative study to gain insight into quality of healthcare services in the mala...

Waste management in the UK has long made extensive use of economic instruments. They take three forms: landfill tax, packaging waste recovery notes and tradeable allowances for biodegradable municipal waste. Whether they are efficient and effective are important questions but so also is whether they are legitimate. This involves consideration of the legitimacy of the institutions that design an...