In the articles “Infant stool color card screening helps reduce the hospitalization rate and mortality of biliary atresia: A 14-year nationwide cohort study in Taiwan” and “Chronic kidney disease is associated with upper tract urothelial carcinoma: A nationwide population-based cohort study in Taiwan”, which appeared in Volume 95, Issue 12 and Volume 95, Issue 14, respectively, of Medicine, a u...

Expression of mutant EcoRII methyltransferase protein (M.EcoRII-C186A) in Escherichia coli leads to tightly bound DNA-protein complexes (TBCs), located sporadically on the chromosome rather than in tandem arrays. The mechanisms behind the lethality induced by such sporadic TBCs are not well studied, nor is it clear whether very tight binding but non-covalent complexes are processed in the same ...

Topçu et al are the authors of a good reference article entitled “Birth weight for gestational age: a reference study in a tertiary referral hospital in the middle region of Turkey”. This retrospective study enrolled 68,255 live singleton pregnancies delivered at 22e42 gestational weeks in Dr Zekai Tahir Burak Women's Health Education and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey, between 2007 and 2013...

background: coffee is implicated in the susceptibility to several cancers. however, the association between coffee and lymphoma remains unclear. this meta-analysis aimed to assess quantitatively the association between coffee and the incidence of lymphoma. methods: a literature search was performed for cohort and case-control studies published using pubmed, cochrane, and embase databases. studi...

OBJECTIVES To examine the long term effects of low birth weight on academic achievements in twins and singletons and to determine whether the academic achievement of twins in early adulthood is inferior to that of singletons. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING Taiwanese nationwide register of academic outcome. PARTICIPANTS A cohort of 218 972 singletons and 1687 twins born in Taiwan, 1983-5. ...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) patients face numerous difficulties adhering to the long-term, rigorous TB treatment regimen. Findings on TB patients' treatment adherence vary across existing literature and official reports. The present study attempted to determine the actual treatment adherence of new TB patients and to identify factors leading to non-adherence. METHODS A prospective cohort of ...