Vol. 29, No. 4, 2017 503 Received July 11, 2016, Revised August 1, 2016, Accepted for publication August 8, 2016 *These authors contributed equally to this work and should be considered co-first authors. Corresponding author: Hye One Kim, Department of Dermatology, Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital, Hallym University College of Medicine, 1 Singil-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul 07441, Korea. Tel: 82-2-8...

OBJECTIVE The main objective was to compare the cost-effectiveness of therapeutic options in moderate or severe rheumatoid arthritis (RA) when a clinical response to a first TNF-blocker, either etanercept (ETA), adalimumab (ADA), or infliximab (INF), is insufficient. METHODS Effectiveness criteria were defined as remission (RS), low disease activity (LDAS), and moderate to high disease activi...

Abstract Background Licences to operate pharmacy premises are issued by statutory regulatory bodies. The Health Institutions and Facilities Act (Act 829) Professions Regulatory Bodies 857) regulate the business of supplying restricted medicines retail, respectively, this could create a potential overlap for practice in Ghana. We theorise that regulation duties stems from how law-makers framed i...

Background: The prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) has been reported to range between 6%-15%. As occurs with axial spondyloarthrtitis (axSpA), patients IBD have an increased risk cardiovascular (CV) events because a process accelerated atherosclerosis 1 . However, it is unknown whether the presence confers CV axSpA. Objectives: To compare atherosclerot...

BACKGROUND Depression and anxiety are common mental health concerns worldwide. Broad-spectrum multi-vitamin/mineral approaches have been found to alleviate a number of psychiatric symptoms. We investigated the effects of a nutrient intervention program, which includes optimizing vitamin D levels, on depression and anxiety outcomes from community-based program. METHODS We evaluated self-report...

The 30-day mortality as well as morbidity for stroke and myocardial infarction were determined by review of the charts for every carotid endarterectomy (iV = 389 operations on 356 patients) performed at Wake Forest University Medical Center from 1979 through 1983 to ascertain whether the 16% morbidity and 6% mortality documented in our previous report of 1978 had changed over time. For endarter...

The longitudinal effectiveness of a universal, adolescent school-based depression prevention program Op Volle Kracht (OVK) was evaluated by means of a cluster randomized controlled trial with intervention and control condition (school as usual). OVK was based on the Penn Resiliency Program (PRP) (Gillham et al. Psychological Science, 6, 343-351, 1995). Depressive symptoms were assessed with the...