During routine dilation of 48 newborns, systemic responses and pupil dilation were monitored. Both 10 percent aqueous and viscous phenylephrine caused blanching around the eyes and produced considerable rise in blood pressure. Dilatation average 4.7 mm. In a double blind study, a 2.5 percent solution caused no skin blanching and no change in pressure or heart rate. Average dilation was 4.5 mm. ...

Smoking is an extremely common habit amongst schizophrenics. In the USA, some 90 per cent smoke compared to only 33 per cent of the general public. Masterson and O’Shea compared cigarette smoking prevalence of Dublin’s schizophrenic in-patients with that of the general pubic. They concluded that while 92 percent of male and 82 percent of female Irish schizophrenics smoked, prevalence was only 4...

Dietary weight loss regimens could be more effective by selectively targeting adipose while sparing lean mass (LM) if predictive information about individuals' lipid metabolic responses to an intervention were available. The objective of this study was to examine the relationships among changes in 4 anthropometric outcomes, weight, waist circumference (WC), percent body fat (BF), and percent LM...

In order to compare the effectiveness of thaHium-201 (20111) myocardial perfusion scintigraphy and the exercise electrocardiogram for identifying patients with multivessel coronary artery disease, these noninvasive tests and coronary arteriography were performed in 89 patients with prior inferior wall myocardial infarction. Eighty patients performed an adequate exercise test (angina, ST-segment...

No other group is as disengaged from elections as youth. Voter turnout in the United States trails that of other industrialized societies, and is particularly anemic among youth between the ages of 18 and 24. The under-representation of youth voters has been observed ever since eighteen year olds were enfranchised in 1972 (for evidence, see Levine and Lopez, 2002; Bennett, 1997). In the 1976 el...

Bronchogenic cysts are congenital anomalies of the bronchial tree that are often asymptomatic at presentation in adults. Management of asymptomatic bronchogenic cyst in this population remains controversial. Eighteen patients with bronchogenic cysts were treated at our institution since 1975. At initial presentation, 10 patients (56 percent) were asymptomatic and 8 (44 percent) were symptomatic...

BACKGROUND Many Americans are using alternative medical therapies as well as nutritional or dietary supplements that include vitamins, minerals, herbal products, tissue extracts, protein solutions, and other chemicals. Potential for both good and harm exists in taking many of these preparations. METHODS We surveyed 200 consecutive patients older than 18 years attending a family practice clini...

To investigate the knowledge and attitudes of Thai dental practitioners regarding patients with HIV, a cross-sectional study using self-administered questionnaires was conducted. The questionnaires requested demographic information and included questions evaluating the knowledge and attitude of dental practitioners towards HIV. The results were analyzed using Scheffe method for multiple compari...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to evaluate the retinal changes associated with altitude illness in young soldiers. METHODS A total of 50 young soldiers with altitude illness, who were referred to a tertiary care hospital between October 2003 and January 2006, were included in the study. RESULTS All the soldiers were male. The mean age of the subjects was 30.3 (range 20-44) years. Nine (18 pe...

OBJECTIVE The procedure o tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) was recently introduced in the therapeutic armamentarium of stress urinary incontinence (SUI). It is a pubovaginal sling applied in mid-urethra. The authors describe their experience with this technique. MATERIALS AND METHODS During the period of May, 1999 to March, 2001, 110 patients (median age=53 years) were submitted to TVT implant...