objective: to determine the effects of platelet rich plasma prp on healing rates of long bone non-:union: fracture. method: this was a randomized double-blind placebo controlled clinical trial being performed in a 12-month period. we included 75 adult (>18 years) patients suffering from long bone (femur, tibia, humerus and ulna) non-:union: fracture who were randomly assigned to receive 5ml prp...

A journey on the Moscow Metro is a rich and mixed experience. The trains are efficient, and many of the stations provide staggering examples celebrating Russian design and architecture across the centuries. At Ploschad Revolyutsil station, bronze statues adorn each corner and alcove. They pay homage to the great ideals of Soviet society; the collective farmworker, the soldier, the athlete, the ...

At the end of the 1980s and early 1990s, all the countries of the former Soviet Union experienced a dramatic mortality crisis leading to considerable losses in life expectancy. Nowhere was this so important as in Russia where between 1988 and 1994 men lost nearly eight years of life expectancy and women 3.5 years. Surprisingly, there was little attention to this in Russia, and in particular vir...

The end of the Cold War has relaxed NATO's requirement for military readiness. But what of the countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, which now face severe political, social, and economic challenges? They are confronted with the need to develop their own individual national E security policies. To help these nations formulate their own defense policies in the unfamiliar contex...

BACKGROUND Prevalence of infectious diseases in migrant populations has been addressed in numerous studies. However, information is sparse on their mortality due to chronic diseases that are aetiologically associated with an infectious agent. This study investigates mortality related to infectious diseases with a specific focus on cancers of possibly infectious origin in voluntary migrants from...