ABSTRACT: Using portable blood glucose meters (PBGMs) to measure (BG) concentration is a common procedure in veterinary practice. Our objective was evaluate the analytical and clinical accuracy of human PBGM (Accu-Chek Performa®), (AC) (GlucoCalea®), (GC) feline patients. Central venous samples were collected from 48 cats at Brazilian Veterinary teaching hospital. Two devices each model used co...

Abstract The hypocretin/orexin system regulates arousal through central nervous mechanisms and plays an important role in sleep, wakefulness energy homeostasis. It is unclear whether hypocretin peptides are also present blood due to difficulties measuring reliable reproducible levels of the samples. Lack signalling causes sleep disorder narcolepsy type 1, low concentration cerebrospinal fluid h...

BACKGROUND A national multimedia campaign was launched in January 2010, to increase the proportion of young people tested for chlamydia. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of the campaign on the coverage and positivity within the National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NSCP) in England. METHOD An interrupted time series of anonymised NCSP testing reports for England for a 27 month period...