background: methamphetamine (ma) is a potent psychomotor stimulant with high abuse and addictive potential. ma is a neurotoxic drug which is widely abused by females of childbearing age, raising serious public health concerns in terms of exposure of the fetus to the drug. neurotoxic effects of ma on adult are well known, such as dopaminergic nerve terminal degeneration and cell death in regions...

Karyotypes were analyzed by routine Giemsa and quinacrine fluorescence for 16 patients with acute lymphocytic leukemia [ten adults (18 to 51 years) and six children (3 to 15 years)]. Four patients had received previous therapy, but all 16 had active disease when they were first studied. Eight patients (five untreated) had a normal karyotype initially; however, three of these developed a chromos...

OBJECTIVE To assess the value of second trimester genetic ultrasound for screening of Down syndrome conducted at Srinagarind Hospital, Khon Kaen, Thailand. MATERIAL AND METHOD The present study sample comprised of 4,033 pregnant women at high risk forfetal chromosomal abnormality, from 17th to 23th week, who had performed second trimester genetic ultrasound before genetic amniocentesis betwee...