BACKGROUND Multiple population-based and high-risk cohort studies use parental questionnaire responses to define allergic rhinitis (AR) in children. Individual questionnaire items have not been validated by comparison with physician-diagnosed AR (PDAR). OBJECTIVE To identify routine clinical questions that best agree with a physician diagnosis of AR and can be used for early case identificati...

A. Gade,1,2 T. Baugher,1,2 D. Bazin,1 B. A. Brown,1,2 C. M. Campbell,1 T. Glasmacher,1,2 G. F. Grinyer,1 M. Honma,3 S. McDaniel,1,2 R. Meharchand,1,2 T. Otsuka,4,5 A. Ratkiewicz,1,2 J. A. Tostevin,6 K. A. Walsh,1,2 and D. Weisshaar1 1National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State Un...

To evaluate progress in the field of end-of-life care and clarify research priorities, the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), commissioned this evidence report as the basis for a State-of-the-Science Conference in December 2004. The need for such an assessment is clear. More than 75 percent of Americans now live past age 65...

Fish plays an important role in the Bangladeshi diet, constituting the main and often irreplaceable animal food in rural households. Fish consumption is dominated by wild small indigenous fish species (SIS). The vitamin A content in SIS varies from less than 100 to more than 2,500 retinol equivalents (RE) per 100 g of raw edible parts. This study assessed the dietary contribution of vitamin A, ...

The Food and Drug Administration, concerned about the quality of the generic drugs that represent 84 percent of U.S. prescriptions, is looking more closely at foreign manufacturing plants and weighing other changes in the generic approval process.

in this research, the chemimechanical pulps (cmp) with different yields were prepared by using the mixtures of constant raw materials comprising iranian hardwood species such as hornbeam (44%), poplar (31%), maple (15%) and salix (10%). this research was aiming to study cmp pulp properties variations in yields lower than standard limit (85%). four different yields (84, 80, 73 and 67%) were achi...

Twenty-five patients with severe, chronic obshctive airway disease had standard 12-lead el and bngterm el-phic monitoring performed while they were in a stable condition. SCnndard ekdmcdidemonstrated a high incidence of e l e c t d o g r a p h i c abnomatith suggesHve of right venMc& hypertrophy and/or chronic pnlmoaary d ie ease, bat only 20 percent showed arrhythmbL In contrast, longterm eket...

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