OBJECTIVE To examine rates of paediatric hospitalization for empyema and pneumonia in Australia before and after the introduction of the seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7). METHODS Rates of paediatric hospitalization for empyema and pneumonia (bacterial, viral and all types) were calculated following the codes of the International Classification of Diseases, tenth revision (IC...

BACKGROUND Accidental falls in older people are a major public health problem but a relatively limited number of studies have analyzed the mortality trends from this cause. Effective public health interventions have been found to prevent the incidence of falls and their complications. Therefore, characterizing the mortality trends of falls for different subpopulations can help to identify their...

background: the aim of this study was to estimate the conversion rate from radiologically isolated syndrome (ris) to definite multiple sclerosis (ms). methods: during a mean (standard deviation [sd]) follow-up period of 17.4 (5.4) (range 8-29) months, 25 subjects with ris and without neurological symptom aged 22-45 year from a single-center have been examined for the occurrence of definite ms. ...

Since Covid-19 appeared, the world has entered into a new stage, in which everybody is trying to mitigate effects of virus. The mandatory use face masks public places and when maintaining contact with people outside family circle one measures that many countries have implemented, such as Ecuador, thus, purpose this article develop convolutional neural network model using TensorFlow based on Mob...

BACKGROUND Influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection are common causes of lower respiratory tract illness. Data on their burden in low and middle-income settings and from Africa are scarce. We aimed to estimate age-specific rates of hospitalization attributable to influenza and RSV among patients attending private hospitals in South Africa during 2007-2012. METHODS We estimate...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate doctors' coffee consumption at work and differences between specialties. DESIGN Single centre retrospective cohort study. SETTING Large teaching hospital in Switzerland. PARTICIPANTS 766 qualified doctors (425 men, 341 women) from all medical specialties (201 internal medicine, 76 general surgery, 67 anaesthetics, 54 radiology, 48 orthopaedics, 43 gynaecology, 36 neu...

BACKGROUND Consumption of soft drinks has been linked to obesity in children and adolescents, but it is unclear whether it increases metabolic risk in middle-aged individuals. METHODS AND RESULTS We related the incidence of metabolic syndrome and its components to soft drink consumption in participants in the Framingham Heart Study (6039 person-observations, 3470 in women; mean age 52.9 years...