PURPOSE The one-year effectiveness of transdermal nicotine patches versus placebo patches for smoking cessation based on continuous or sustained abstinence was studied. METHODS A literature search of MEDLINE (PubMed), EMBASE, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials up to April 2006 was conducted. Articles containing relevant keywords were reviewed by two evaluators independentl...

Alopecia of a scalp shows various shapes and extents of hair loss, from a small round patch to polymorphous patches or total global alopecia. But alopecia of a linear shape is very rare. Only a few such cases have currently been reported in the medical literature. We recently had the chance to observe and treat two cases of linear alopecia that developed on the occipital scalp. The lesions them...

Populations may be regulated by both local density dependent factors and spatial variation in habitat quality I explore the in uence of spatial autocor relation in habitat quality on the survival of model populations Dispersal is modeled as Markov tran sitions between patches A nite rate of population increase was assigned to each patch Total habitat area and mean dispersal distance had strong ...

A 53-year-old man presented with a 3-week history of a slowly expanding pruritic rash over the right hip. The patient underwent right total hip arthroplasty 10 months prior, complicated by a joint infection requiring 2 incision and drainage procedures and antibiotic bead placement. He was treated with 6 weeks of intravenous rocephin then was transitioned to oral amoxicillin. The area was bandag...

Question: How do patterns in colonization and patch expansion of an invasive woody plant (Larrea tridentata, Zygophyllaceae) differ between two grassland ecosystems at a biome transition zone? Location: Semi-arid/arid transition zone in central New Mexico. Methods: Frequency of occurrence, height, and surface area of saplings (n = 134) and patches of adult plants (n = 247) of the invasive shrub...

A common inconvenience of keeping a computer system’s installed applications updated is the loss of the availability of services while the respective application is updating. Typically, the user has a hard choice to make: Accept the downtime or pay the cost of a redundant system. Many regular applications are not well suited to be run in a truly redundant way, but even when a redundant system i...

We reported that nicotine applied via a transdermal patch (21 mg/day) induced viral reactivation and ocular shedding in herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) latent rabbits. One possible mechanism of action involves the release of catecholamines and other similar agents, triggering HSV reactivation. Bupropion (Zyban, Wellbutrin), a non-nicotine aid to smoking cessation, inhibits neuronal uptake o...