Objective(s): Smoking opium/cigarette is a global health concern. The aim of this study was to examine learning and memory of rat male offsprings whose mothers had been exposed to either opium or morphine with nicotine during pregnancy. Materials and Methods: Wistar rats were used for the experiments. In the female rats, opium, morphine and nicotine dependencies were induced by daily injection...

CONTEXT Prescribing practices for otitis media are not consistent with current evidence-based recommendations. OBJECTIVE To determine whether point-of-care evidence delivery regarding the use and duration of antibiotics for otitis media decreases the duration of therapy from 10 days and decreases the frequency of prescriptions written. DESIGN Randomized, controlled trial. SETTING Primary ...

Results Overall 42 subjects were identified from 2000-2009, during peak flu-season and 35 (27 boys) were included. Median onset age was 7 years. Target diagnosis was reported in 89%, during first emergency visit. Observed acute respiratory symptoms, cough (31%) and coriza (23%), with fever (63%) had mean duration of 4.3 days. Muscle-skeletal symptoms were calf-pain (80%), limited walking (57%),...

In this series, there were 30 cases of postpartum hypogalactia, including 25 primiparae and 5 pluriparae, ranging in age from 31-36 years. The duration of illness was from 2-10 days in 21 cases, 10-20 days in 6 cases, and 20-30 days in 3 cases. 27 cases had scanty and thin secretion of milk, and 3 cases no any milk secretion. Most of the cases were accompanied with mammary distention and pain, ...

the use of corticosteroids is one of the methods put forward for the strengthening and speeding up the process of labor. after identification of glucocorticoid receptors in human amnion, the role of corticosteroids in starting the process of labor has been studied in numerous studies.the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of intravenous dexamethasone on preparing the cervix and o...

Two lots of white rats ( Wistar ) were treated for 5 days and respectively 10 days with low intensity and frequency electromagnetic field (100 Hz, 2.7 mT) discontinuous applied ( 3 second action and 1 second break). Other two lots of rats were untreated controls for 5 and respectively 10 days. The treatment induced an intensification of α – amylase enzyme activity from rats blood serum, compara...

conclusions our study found that maximum serum glucose concentration positively correlated with the duration of mechanical ventilation, length of stay, and mortality. background the purpose of this study is to determine the frequency of hyperglycemia in nondiabetic critically ill children and to investigate its relationship with mechanical ventilation, length of stay and mortality. methods in t...