Background: Rosa damascena is a traditional medicinal plant used in Asia to treat several ailments. This study reports In vitro and In vivo antioxidative properties and toxicity of methanolic and aqueous extracts of white rose, an indigenous variety of Rosa damascena from Iran. Methods: The antimicrobial activities, total phenolics, antioxidative properties and the blood sera Ferric-Reducin...

Joint pain accompanied by erythema, swelling, and decreased range of motion is concerning for septic arthritis and typically warrants joint aspiration. The synovial fluid white blood cell count plays a central role in the decision-making process regarding these patients. Traditional teaching holds that a cell count greater than 50,000 white blood cells/µL is likely caused by infection and there...

BACKGROUND The long-term predictive significance of a single ECG tracing for mortality was explored among the white and black men of the Charleston Heart Study. METHODS AND RESULTS The 1960 baseline tracings of men ages 35 to 74 in the Charleston Heart Study cohort were coded according to the Minnesota classification. Tracings were categorized as being normal or having minor or major abnormal...

Subcortical white matter builds neural connections between cortical and subcortical regions and constitutes the basis of neural networks. It plays a very important role in normal brain function. Various studies have shown that white matter deteriorates with aging. However, due to the limited spatial resolution provided by traditional diffusion imaging techniques, microstructural information fro...

School environment plays an important role in student outcomes. Increasingly, research has also highlighted the school White–Black suspension gap. We test whether magnet schools reduce gap using data from Tulsa Public Schools. Using student-level and incident-level Tulsa, Oklahoma, we explore Black students receive exclusionary discipline at lower rates than traditional compared with White stud...

Short telomere syndrome and fibrosis K. Al-Issa, L.B. Tolle, A.S. Purysko and I.A. Hanouneh From the Department of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine Institute, Departments of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Respiratory Institute, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Imaging Institute and Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Clevel...

MATTER OF NORMAL HUMAN ADULT BRAIN Oliver-De La Cruz J, Carrión-Navarro J, Gutiérrez-Martín A, Escobedo-Lucea C, GarcíaVerdugo JM and Ayuso-Sacido A 1 Regenerative Medicine Area. Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe and RETICSCIBERNED. 46012 Valencia, Spain. 2. Department of Neurosurgery. Hospital Universitario la Fe, Valencia, Spain. 3 Cell Morphology Department, Instituto Cavanilles. Unive...

misdiagnosis Jiro Fujita, Masato Tohyama, Shusaku Haranaga, Haley L. Cash, Futoshi Higa, Masao Tateyama Department of Infectious, Respiratory, and Digestive Medicine, Control and Prevention of Infectious Diseases, Okinawa, Japan. Department of Internal Medicine, Yonabaru Central Hospital, Okinawa, Japan. Correspondence: Jiro Fujita, Department of Infectious, Respiratory, and Digestive Medicine,...

PURPOSE To compare the intraoperative safety of two techniques of capsulorhexis for intumescent white cataracts: traditional one-stage continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis and two-stage continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis. METHODS This prospective comparative randomized study included two groups: the 1-CCC group (11 patients) received traditional one-stage continuous curvilinear capsulorhexi...

the issue of “right” is an important subject in field of political, legal and moral thoughts to the extent that the modern age is called “the age of right”. modern man is rightful, providing his welfare is not his first priority. instead, access to and attaining his rights is what can bring him peace of mind. it is properly held that right is not confined to specific aspect of life but covers d...