BACKGROUND Assessment of general public's knowledge and attitudes toward the development and prevention of new disease outbreaks is imperative because they have profound effects on health behaviors and may contribute to the control of the epidemic. PURPOSE To investigate the level of knowledge and attitudes towards the influenza A(H1N1) outbreak across various ethnic groups and socio-demograp...

FM is a progressive aphasic patient whose language comprehension we studied over a 4-year period. We developed a variety of implicit and explicit tasks to chart progressive changes in the representation of linguistic knowledge (in particular, syntax and semantics) and the automatic and controlled processes which operate on that knowledge. The representation of FM's semantic knowledge remained e...

In 1929 Morquio of Montevideo described two children, brother and sister, with curious skeletal deformities. To this he added in 1935 the description of two other children of the same family with similar deformities. Since 1929 reports of nine families have appeared in each of which two or more children have been affected in the same way (Ruggles, 1931 ; Barnett, 1933; Coward and Nemir, 1933 ; ...

The guinea worm disease, dracunculiasis, was targeted for elimination in several countries with the hope of global eradication before the end of 1995. This eradication deadline was not met and WHO then hoped to certify eradication by 2005. At the 2006 World Health Assembly (WHA) in Geneva, the World Health Organisation (WHO) convened an informal meeting on the eradication of dracunculiasis and ...

Automatic analysis was performed of four-dimensional ultrasonographic (US) data in the carotid artery. The data, which were acquired in 31 subjects (eight healthy volunteers and 23 patients) by using a US scanner fitted with a special probe, were successfully processed. Acquisition time averaged 12 minutes. Data for all healthy volunteers (n = 8) and patients with complete occlusions (n = 3) we...

Regulatory T cells (Tregs), identified by the expression of CD4, CD25 and Foxp3, together with immunosuppressive macrophages, such as CD163+ M2 macrophages, are involved in maintaining peripheral tolerance. The aim of this study was to elucidate the involvement of Tregs and CD163+ macrophages in invasive and non-invasive extramammary Paget's disease. The presence of CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ Tregs, CD163...

Psoriasis is one of the most well described cutaneous disorders, with a large body of literature devoted to describing its pathogenesis and treatment. In recent years, attention has turned toward the mechanisms by which lifestyle can impact psoriatic disease, and how lifestyle interventions may help to alleviate cutaneous, rheumatological, and comorbid disease in the setting of psoriasis. The f...

OBJECTIVES To assess the diagnostic process of retinoblastoma in a developing country. STUDY DESIGN Prospective survey of 95 consecutive parents of patients with retinoblastoma. RESULTS Fifty six parents consulted initially with a paediatrician. Their children tended to be younger, with a significantly higher frequency of advanced disease. Only half of the patients who consulted with a paed...

This paper makes methodological and empirical contributions to the study of HIV in the context of Botswana, a country with high HIV prevalence. Comparable evidence is presented from India to put the Botswana results in perspective. The results point to the strong role played by affluence and education in increasing HIV knowledge, promoting safe sex and reducing HIV prevalence. The study present...