Osteoarthritis is a debilitating joint disease impacting millions of people around the world, but for which few effective treatments exist. It influenced by both mechanical and systemic factors, each may be mitigated appropriate dietary interventions. Unfortunately, patients are given advice beyond, “lose some weight.” The effect weight loss on pain function recognized, less known evidence that...

The data emerging out of the clinical trial indicated significant clinical relief and favourable shift of grades of the clinical components of anxiety namely nervousness, palpitation, insomnia, irritability, lack of concentration etc. Following Medhya Rasayana therapy. The elements of underlying depression as measured by a depression scale were also found reduced. The patients reported an incre...

OBJECTIVE To present some of our experience with Biobrane (a total of 703 patients in 7 years) in a range of uses in burn practice and to illustrate the caveats that we have found applicable in maintaining our success with this versatile material. METHODS Retrospective analysis of theatre records, medical notes, and photography database to categorize our experience with Biobrane. Thorough ass...

introduction : studying the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in low socioeconomic groups is of great importance. people who are under the supervisioin and care of imam khomeini relief foundation are the most deprived in iran. the present survey aimed at investigating the prevalence of traditional cardiovascular risk factors among  the citizens who are under the supervision of imam khom...

In humanitarian relief operations (HRO), due to the excessive number of relief organizations, multiple organizational coordination is a demanding and complicated task. Considering such a problem, this paper proposes a two-phase mechanism to coordinate multiple heterogeneous relief organizations in a decentralized HRO logistics network. To address such a problem, first a bi-level mixed integer l...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Severe, immediate postprocedural pain and the need for analgesics after vertebroplasty can be a discouraging experience for patients and caregivers. The goal of this study was to investigate whether the presence of severe pain immediately after vertebroplasty predicts short- and long-term pain relief. MATERIALS AND METHODS A chart review was performed to categorize pati...

benign duodenocolic fistula (dcf), known as a fistula between the duodenum and colon with or without cecum of nonmalignant origin, is an unusual complication of different gastrointestinal diseases. the present paper records a case in which the patient presented with chronic diarrhea, abdominal pain, weight lossas well as having a history of gastric ulcer. most frequently the condition presents ...