A case is presented of arteriovenous malformation of the thumb, requiring thumb amputation and free fap coverage for curative treatment. The thumb was reconstructed by pollicization of the index finger as a secondary operation. The patient remains free of recurrence after 2 years and uses the pollicized thumb for daily activities.

BACKGROUND Governments are increasingly reliant on community health workers to undertake health promotion and provide essential curative care. In 2003, the Government of Ethiopia launched the Health Extension Programme and introduced a new cadre, health extension workers (HEWs), to improve access to care in rural communities. In 2013, to inform the government's plans for HEWs to take on an enha...

The dual nature of dealing with health problems has been recognized since antiquity. Asklepios, the god of medicine in ancient Greece, had two daughters: Panacea – the goddess of healing and cures, and Hygeia – the goddess of welfare and hygiene, symbolizing curative and preventive medicine respectively. It is well understood nowadays that these two approaches blend: the range from primary and ...

introduction:diabetes is a significant and expensive health problem which had influenced all the ages in almost all the countries. increasing prevalence of this disease has been caused by continued changes in lifestyle such as unsuitable nutrition, lack of physical activities and fatness which is often related to modern city life, mechanization and industrialization. it is an expensive disease,...

This study was conducted to evaluate nursing documentation on patient hygienic care and to analyze the consistency between actual care given by nurses and that of documented in nursing record. Data were collected from 85 nurses employed at critical care units, on whom 255 sets of observations were performed through a structured participant observation form, which could be used to record the obs...

Honeybees have evolved a social immunity consisting of the cooperation of individuals to decrease disease in the hive. We identified a set of genes involved in this social immunity by analysing the brain transcriptome of highly varroa-hygienic bees, who efficiently detect and remove brood infected with the Varroa destructor mite. The function of these candidate genes does not seem to support a ...