BACKGROUND Obesity and undernutrition are common in South Africa and influence the health outcomes of people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (PLHIV). AIM To describe the anthropometric changes and perceptions of body weight in adults initiated on antiretroviral therapy (ART). METHODS A cohort of 230 PLHIV was enrolled at an HIV clinic in Durban. Changes in their body mass index...

CONTEXT Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is linked with morphologic abnormalities such as lipoatrophy (LA), which may accompany metabolic alterations (dysglycemias, dyslipidemia and insulin resistance) that increase cardiovascular disease risk. LA and its association with metabolic alterations have been infrequently studied amongst Nigerians on ART. AIMS To determine the prevalence, pattern and a...

Copyright is held by the author. Golan Levin’s Interactive Art and Computational Design class. Spring 2012, Carnegie Mellon University. Abstract We present “Gesture of In-Kindness,” an interactive art project comprising four household devices that respond in-kind to observers’ gestures. These devices include a fan that blows air at the observer only when the observer is actively blowing his or ...

BACKGROUND Body art practices have emerged as common activities among youth, yet few studies have investigated awareness in different age groups of possible health complications associated with piercing and tattooing. METHODS We investigated perceptions of and knowledge about health risks. To highlight differences among age groups, we gathered data from students at high schools and universiti...

The 1979 religious ideological revolution of Iran brought about a double stance towards the body and its pictorial representations, as to drawing a schism between the physiological and the cultural aspects of the body. Studying this schism is important particularly due to its significance in figuring out the features and functions of what in this article will be called “the ideological body”. B...

we describe a patient with newly diagnosed limy cancer. staging was performed with ct and mediastinoscopy. fdg pet scan was performed and confirmed increased metabolic activity in the primary tumor as well as the hilar lymph node. seven months after initial presentation, the patient was found to have two lytic lesions in the pelvis on plain radiograph. hone scan was negative but pet demonstrate...