Recent decades have seen significant improvements in health indicators in many East Asian countries. The infant mortality rate (IMR), a useful overall health indicator, fell from 40 per 1000 live births in 1990 to 35 in 1999 for the East Asia region as a whole (Table 1). Yet progress on health in the region has tended to lag that on other development indicators, and to disappoint in several way...

BACKGROUND Despite the numerous guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of asthma, there are data that indicate that general pediatrician's knowledge of the disease and its preferred treatment is limited, which may influence the quality of care given to asthmatic children. The purpose of this study was to describe pediatrician's knowledge of spacers and of concepts of chilhood asthma, as well...

This study attempts to predict the potential cost savings of employing ice thermal storage (ITS) systems in the office buildings cooling application in Malaysia over the next 20 years. During the past decades, huge amount of daytime peak power has been shifted to the off-peak hours by using cool thermal energy storage (CTES) systems around the world. However, the contribution of CTES systems in...

During a 4-year period, 152 female and 9 male patients underwent large-volume liposuction, with ages ranging from 19 to 65 years (mean of 36 years), with a weight previous to surgery between 57 and 126 kg (mean of 72 kg). Tumescent liposuction was done simultaneously by two surgeons in several corporal areas according to the necessities of each case. In 28 patients (17 percent), 500 ml of whole...

BACKGROUND It is unclear whether antimicrobial treatment after an Ixodes scapularis tick bite will prevent Lyme disease. METHODS In an area of New York where Lyme disease is hyperendemic we conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of treatment with a single 200-mg dose of doxycycline in 482 subjects who had removed attached I. scapularis ticks from their bodies within th...

Background: Identifying risk factors for conversion to open surgery laparoscopic cholecystectomy and factors are difficult to predict cholecystectomy surgery is required. The aim of this study was to evaluate the findings of preoperative ultrasound in predicting the length of laparoscopic cholecystectomy surgery. Methods: The present study was performed cross-sectional on 122 patients who unde...

The study assessed the efficacy of fish oil supplementation in counteracting the classic dyslipidemia of the atherogenic lipoprotein phenotype (ALP). In addition, the impact of the common apolipoprotein E (apoE) polymorphism on the fasting and postprandial lipid profile and on responsiveness to the dietary intervention was established. Fifty-five ALP males (aged 34 to 69 years, body mass index ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of surgical deactivation of migraine headache trigger sites. Of 125 patients diagnosed with migraine headaches, 100 were randomly assigned to the treatment group and 25 served as controls, with 4:1 allocation. Patients in the treatment group were injected with botulinum toxin A for identification of trigger sites. Eighty-nine patients wh...

abstract in this study the effects and costs of application of two kinds of super absorbent polymer on the establishment and surviving of seedlings was investigated. experiments were done in the field and on two kind of soil with different salinity (ec: 4.5 and 8 dsm-1). the results showed: the establishment rate of seedling in control was about 40 percent. the percentage of seedling establishm...

The population of Latin America is now largely urban. By 1990, 72 percent of the people of the region were living in cities (Figure 1). By 2020, the urban population could reach 83 percent. With increasing urbanization, the region faces problems of poverty, nutrition, and health that are somewhat different from those when the population was more rural. Thirty-five percent of the people who live...