AIM To identify causes of preterm delivery and intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) in a malaria endemic region of Papua New Guinea. METHODS Independent predictors of preterm delivery and birthweight in term infants were identified using multiple regression analysis in a prospective study of 987 singleton live births delivered in Madang Hospital. RESULTS Overall, Plasmodium falciparum inf...

Marchiafava-Bignami disease (MBD) is a neurological disorder that has been found to be associated with chronic alcoholism and malnutrition. We report a 45 year old man, chronic alcoholic that developed discouragement for activities involving daily living, changes in retrograde memory in addition to mutism and gait instability. Brain MRI showed central atrophy of the corpus callosum(CC), hypoint...

Theories pertaining to the "why" of motion sickness are in short supply relative to those detailing the "how." Considering the profoundly disturbing and dysfunctional symptoms of motion sickness, it is difficult to conceive of why this condition is so strongly biologically based in humans and most other mammalian and primate species. It is posited that motion sickness evolved as a potent negati...

DOI: 10.5581/1516-8484.20110089 may even be promoted to classification A1 even with an impact factor lower than that stipulated by the old classification. At this point the meeting came to an end as the discussion became general with different opinions on various aspects; one conclusion was reached that if this measure were adopted there would be major discouragement for all the excluded journa...

BACKGROUND Most women report negative experience about the symptoms of uterine leiomyoma (UL) in their lives, such as abnormal uterine bleeding and pelvic pain. Many studies have been conducted about efficacy of UL treatment, but little research has been performed about womens health related quality of life (HRQL). METHODS This is a semi-structured, descriptive, observational, qualitative stu...

Abusive head trauma, formerly known as shaken baby syndrome, is a condition with physical, psychosocial, and fiscal implications presenting opportunities for nurses to intervene with prevention strategies. This integrative review of the literature explored the empirical evidence to identify prevention strategies effective in decreasing abusive head trauma. Education, medical, and nursing databa...

INTRODUCTION The World Health Organization recommends breastfeeding for two years or more and advises against bottle feeding and pacifier use. OBJECTIVE Investigate the association between bottle feeding and pacifier use, and breastfeeding in the second half-year of life. METHODS Survey in a municipality of Rio de Janeiro state, in 2006, interviewing those responsible for 580 children aged ...

BACKGROUND This study assessed the perceived benefits and barriers to exercise participation in overweight and obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and monitored changes in response to a lifestyle intervention. METHODS Forty-three overweight/obese PCOS women (Age, 30.3(6.2) yrs; BMI, 36.4(5.6) kg/m(2)) were randomised to one of three 20-week lifestyle programs: diet only (DO, n =...

ment both the afferent and efferent phases of the immune response following therapeutic vaccination. The afferent phase of the immune response could be enhanced by using more potent vaccines with novel adjuvants, such as Toll-like receptor ligands, or by vaccinating donors of transplant recipients who have a healthy immune system as opposed to patients who may be immunocompromised either from t...

This study aimed at understanding the social representations (SR) of depression among adolescents on high school level. Two hundred and twenty-two (222) adolescents of both sexes (53% male and 47% female), aged between 14 and 19 years and attending the first, second and third grades of high school participated in the study. The instruments used were: the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) for sele...