day surgery (also called ambulatory or outpatient surgery), the practice of performing surgery without an overnight hospital stay, is not new- indeed it can trace its origins back to the early 1900s- but it only really became popular from about the 1980s. north america, the united kingdom and northern europe were amongst some of the earliest advocates, but the practice has since spread far wide...

BACKGROUND Falls in older people continue to be a major public health issue in industrialized countries. Extensive research into falls prevention has identified exercise as a proven fall prevention strategy. However, despite over a decade of promoting physical activity, hospitalisation rates due to falls injuries in older people are still increasing. This could be because efforts to increase ph...

Most of studies on the video communications are based on an unproved hypothesis: They take it granted that the full-face images of communicators are the 'sine qua non' in video conversations, and profiles are rather confusing or annoying for them. This paper proves the counter hypothesis that profile images are also useful and they can replace the full-faces under some conditions. Psychological...

We carried out a randomized controlled trial in Bogotá, the recipient of Colombia's highest number of internally displaced people (IDP), to assess whether the use of SMS to communicate eligibility to social benefits fosters the welfare of victimized internal refugees. Only a fraction of IDP are eligible to benefits. We inform eligibility via SMS to a random half of such households, and estimate...

Social networks are social structures consisting of individuals or organizations, usually represented by nodes tied by one or more types of relationships. Although these structures are often complex, analyzing them enables us to detect several inter and intra connections amongst people in and outside their organizations. In this context, we present an approach using data mining techniques in or...

T elimination of health disparities in the United States is a national priority and overriding goal for Healthy People 2010 (HP 2010). Surveillance of health indicators among minority populations is essential to eliminating disparities. Surveillance is critical for program planning, policy making, evaluating population-based strategies, and tracking progress toward national and state objectives.

On 12 November 2017, the Philippine celebrity musician Pilita Corrales was singing popular song ‘Ikaw’ (‘You’) at a gala event in Manila, attended by some of world's most powerful politicians time, US President Donald Trump and Rodrigo Duterte. Suddenly, she noticed male voice along with her, its intonation off, volume increasing. Aware that being recorded, first tried to disregard intruding vo...

Inserting voluntarily foreign bodies (fb) in penis is used to allegedly improve male sexual performance, popular especially amongst people with low social and financial status. In the largest prison hospital in Romania, during 20032010 we studied a total of 48 patients manifesting this pathology. Foreign bodies were represented by fragments of plastic, oily substances or a combination of the ab...