Henoch-Schönlein purpura is a leukocytoclastic vasculitis, characterized with palpable purpuric rush and collection of immunglobuline A (Ig A) around small vessels. Onset of purpuric rush at gluteus and lower extremities is the main symptom of the disease, however it presents with a wide variety of signs and symptoms. Here, we present a two-year-old boy who had presented with penile swelling an...

*Takegami, K; *Masuda, K (A-NIH, Stryker Biotech); **An, H (A-Stryker Biotech); *Kamada, H; ***Pietryla, D; +****Thonar, E (A-NIH, Stryker Biotech) *Depts. of Biochem. and Orthop. Surg., Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL. +****Depts. of Biochem., Orthop. Surg. and Internal Medicine, Rush Medical College at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, IL. 1653 W. Congress Parkway, Chica...

On the positive side of this rush to judgment is the valid concern for the health and development of drug-exposed children. This concern has led to a substantial effort on the part of the scientific community to understand the effects of prenatal drug exposure on the developing child. In a relatively brief amount of time there has been an explosion of research in this area including an infusion...

background: chemo-immunotherapy is one of the new achievements for treatment of cancer, by which the success of anti-cancer therapy can be increased. in vitro studies have been shown that arteether (are) induces apoptosis in tumor cells, but not in normal cells. objective: to investigate the cytotoxic and immunomodulatory properties of arteether in-vivo and in-vitro. methods: in this study, we ...

in 1890, coley observed that cancer patients who developed infections had smaller tumors. from this, he developed coley’s toxin and treated tumors with injections of infectious materials. in 1960s,  mahaley used monoclonal antibodies to treat central nervous system(cns)  tumors, that research and clinical investigations in brain tumor immunotherapy became a serious undertaking. there are severa...

the efficacy of allergen immunotherapy for the treatment of allergic rhinoconjunctivitis with or without seasonal bronchial asthma and anaphylaxis caused by the sting of the hymenoptera class of insects has been clearly demonstrated in numerous well-designed, placebo-controlled trials. immunotherapy whether by subcutaneous injection of allergen extract or by oral/sublingual routes modifies peri...

2289. A Multicenter Study of the Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology of TEMand SHV-type ExtendedSpectrum β-Lactamase producing (ESBL) Enterobacteriaceae (Ent) Infections in Children Jared R. Rispens, MD; Rachel L. Medernach, MD; Andrea M. Hujer, BS; T. Nicholas Domitrovic, BA; Steven H. Marshall, MS; Susan D. Rudin, BS; Xiaotian Zheng, MD, PhD; Nadia K. Qureshi, MD; Mary K. Hayden, MD, FIDSA, F...

It is f i t t ing in this b icentennial year of the United States, for the ed i f i ca t ion of oncologists, to cast a glance at what physicians o f the American Revolut ion though t and practiced about cancer . There is no better source of such en l igh tenment than the wri t ings o f Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) of Phi ladelphia. Of English Quaker stock, born in Pennsylvania and educated at Pr i...

This book is a collection of new essays around the broad central theme of the nature of logic, or the question: ‘what is logic?’ It is a book about logic and philosophy equally. What makes it unusual as a book about logic is that its central focus is on metaphysical rather than epistemological or methodological concerns. By comparison, the question of the metaphysical status of mathematics and ...