Acetaminophen is a leading cause of acute liver failure (ALF). Genetic differences might predispose some individuals to develop ALF. In this exploratory study, we evaluated genotype frequency differences among patients enrolled by the ALF Study Group who had developed ALF either intentionally from a singletime-point overdose of acetaminophen (n = 78), unintentionally after chronic high doses of...

I. General observation The Green Paper contains considerations with regard to the future Common European Asylum System. These considerations are mainly couched in questions which are commented on under II. However, this Green Paper also contains, in part, concrete objectives relating, for instance, to a higher common standard of protection and a higher degree of solidarity between EU Member Sta...

The Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) is a transport protocol that provides bidirectional unicast connections of congestion-controlled unreliable datagrams. DCCP is suitable for applications that transfer fairly large amounts of data, but can benefit from control over the tradeoff between timeliness and reliability. Kohler/Handley/Floyd [Page 1] INTERNET-DRAFT Expires: 28 May 2006 Nov...

1Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Egypt (Correspondence to A.H. El-Gilany: [email protected]). ABSTRACT Using multistage cluster sampling, we conducted a household survey of diarrhoea among 4458 children under age 5 years in Dakahlia governorate from June 2002 to May 2003 to determine the prevalence and determinants of diarrhoeal diseases. Frequency of...

To examine mirror neuron abnormalities in autism, highfunctioning children with autism and matched controls underwent fMRI while imitating and observing emotional expressions. Although both groups performed the tasks equally well, children with autism showed no mirror neuron activity in the inferior frontal gyrus (pars opercularis). Notably, activity in this area was inversely related to sympto...

enough to enable us to analyze the relationship of condom use to characteristics that are relatively rare in the population, such as drug use. Our objectives are to use the NHSDA data to describe the frequency of condom use among U.S. adults, to determine how this varies by type of sex partner and by the characteristics of respondents (including their engagement in HIV risk behaviors), and to e...

Infection is one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity in dialysis patients. Dialysis patients appear to be predisposed to infection due to alterations in primary host defence, advanced age and the presence of comorbid conditions, malnutrition and invasive dialysis procedures. Bacteraemia is seldom a manifestation of infection in peritoneal dialysis patients and is usually secondary to...

As private medical practitioners play a major role of in providing care to pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients, a survey was made of knowledge and practice in 2 cities in Pakistan. Only 1 of the 245 physicians was aware that cough > 3 weeks alone is the main symptom suggesting pulmonary TB. The majority diagnosed (80%) and treated (83%) cases themselves without referral. Less than 1% relied on...

1 Penn Centre for Brain Injury and Repair and Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA 2 Division of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G51 4TF, UK 3 Department of Laboratory Medicine, Southern General Hospital, Glasgow G51 4TF, UK 4 Centre for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Institute on Ageing and ...