A 16-year-old girl inadvertently swallowed a toothbrush during attempted manual induction of emesis. The 20 cm toothbrush was successfully removed via overtube facilitated endoscopy using a retractable snare while the patient was sedated in the emergency department.

There is an error in reference 24. The correct reference is: Obirikorang C, Selleh PK, Abledu JK and Fofie CO (2013) Predictors of Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy among HIV/ AIDS Patients in the Upper West Region of Ghana. ISRN AIDS 2013: 873939. In Table 9, there is an error in the parameters for Stage 1 of MDRD and CKD-EPI. The parameters should read: Normal (eGFR$90). There is an error i...

Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the leading causes of cancer mortality, worldwide. Molecular understanding of GC’s different subtypes is still dismal and it is necessary to develop new subtype-specific diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. Therefore developing comprehensive research in this area is demanding to have a deeper insight into molecular processes, underlying these subtypes. In this st...

UNLABELLED This clinical trial aimed at comparing the intensity of pain and bruising by subcutaneous and intramuscular injections using and retractable fixed syringes and needles and syringes with no needles combined, at a public hospital in Sao Paulo, for six months. We evaluated the perception of pain in case of intramuscular (n=1000) and subcutaneous injections (n=240). In subcutaneous appli...

MED1 (Mediator complex subunit 1) is a co-activator of various transcription factors that function in multiple transcriptional pathways. We have already established keratinocyte-specific MED1 null mice (Med1(epi-/-)) that develop epidermal hyperplasia. Herein, to investigate the function(s) of MED1 in skin wound healing, full-thickness skin wounds were generated in Med1(epi-/-) and age-matched ...

A ring R is called right strong stably finite (r.ssf) if for all n ≥ 1, injective endomorphisms of R (n) R are essential. If R is an r.ssf ring and e is an idempotent of R such that eR is a retractable R-module, then eRe is an r.ssf ring. A direct product of rings is an r.ssf ring if and only if each factor is so. The R.ssf condition is investigated for formal triangular matrix rings. In partic...