108 Psychotic and 268 epileptic patients were followed up for 3½ years as a part of an ongoing rural mental health care programme. Some of the observed situations, possible limitations and reasons for the evolved follow up pattern in this endeavour of non-institutional, family centred and community oriented treatment programme, are reported. The strategies to improve the follow up rate among th...

Little is known about the long-term effects of homeopathic treatment. Following a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of classical homeopathy in chronic headaches, we conducted a complete follow-up study of all trial participants. All patients enrolled in the double-blind study were sent a 6-week headache diary, a follow-up questionnaire. Eighty-seven of the original 98 patients enrolled ret...

In the MRC/Derbyshire Smoking Study a cohort of about 6000 adolescents was surveyed annually from 1974 when they entered secondary school aged 11-12 years until 1978 when they reached 15-16 years. In 1981 after the adolescents had left school they were again surveyed by post. Each year from 1974 to 1978 and again in 1981 they answered a questionnaire on their smoking behaviour and other issues....

STUDY OBJECTIVE Transient ischaemic attack (TIA) is often a precursor to stroke, so identification of people experiencing TIA could assist in stroke prevention by indicating those at high risk of stroke who would benefit most from intervention for other stroke risk factors. The objective of this study was to investigate whether answers to a simple questionnaire for TIA could predict the occurre...

Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) reflects a time averaged blood glucose during the previous 2–3 months, and is used as the gold standard for long-term follow-up of glycemic control. The same HbA1c method was used both in the DCCT study published in 1993 (1) and the UKPDS study published in 1998 (2). Following the development of a true reference method by IFCC (3), it was stated in an international consen...

Aim: To compare the effect of single rhomboid and double rhomboid frontalis suspension using 2 mm silicon band on upper lid contour in ptosis surgery. Methods: This randomized control study was conducted at the Department of Ophthalmology, Nishtar Hospital, Multan from March 2011 to March 2014. A total of 40 patients with unilateral ptosis were included in the study. Patients were divided into ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of early treatment for amblyopia in children. DESIGN Follow up of outcomes of treatment for amblyopia in a randomised controlled trial comparing intensive orthoptic screening at 8, 12, 18, 25, 31, and 37 months (intensive group) with orthoptic screening at 37 months only (control group). SETTING Avon, southwest England. PARTICIPANTS 3490 children who ...

When a person is stalked, a common reaction is to consult an expert for the answers to several key questions: Is the stalker dangerous? How can I get the stalker to stop the behavior? What should I do to protect myself? Although certain risk factors are associated with an increased likelihood of violence, care must be taken in using risk factors to predict violence, because there are many excep...

Received: 19 November 2016 Accepted: 12 December 2016 c © 2016 The Author(s), licensee Magdi Yacoub Institute. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY-4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Cite this article as: Kashef MA, Giugliano G. Leg...

Many techniques for management of hypertrophic scars and keloids have been proven through extensive use, but few have been supported by prospective studies with adequate control groups. Several new therapies showed good results in small-scale trials, but these have not been repeated in larger trials with long-term follow-up. This article reports a qualitative overview of the available clinical ...