Since it was first introduced in the late 1800s, the tuberculin test has undergone continual refinement in its formulation, standardization, and dosage, as well as its interpretation and indications for use. New guidelines have replaced universal screening with targeted testing and rigid definitions of positivity with individualized criteria formulated from a Bayesian approach. This review summ...

This study reviews the instruments used for the clinical assessment of spasticity in children with cerebral palsy, and evaluates their compliance with the concept of spasticity, defined as a velocity-dependent increase in muscle tone to passive stretch. Searches were performed in Medline, Embase, and Cinahl, including the keywords 'spasticity', 'child', and 'cerebral palsy', to identify article...

Cord blood has proved itself, if correctly stored with rational criteria, an excellent source of stem cells for related and unrelated transplants. It has been recently proven that the factor which predicts the best the speed of engraftment in cord blood transplants in the dose of progenitor cells injected per kg of body weight of the recipient. This result has been obtained thanks to a careful ...

In recent years, diagnostic ultrasound of the musculoskeletal system (MSUS) has become almost inevitable in everyday clinical practice in rheumatology. Due to the efforts of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR), the use of MSUS has significantly increased in Europe. Unfortunately, there are still certain open issues related to MSUS, primarily regarding different ways of interpretation...

the death of the english national health service (nhs) has been pronounced many times over the years, but the time and cause of death and the murder weapon remains to be fully established. this article reviews some of these claims, and asks for clearer criteria and evidence to be presented.

This paper describes the methodology of a European research project on e-catalog standards and presents its major findings by formulating recommendations for future standardization work. The comparative analysis of 14 standards was conducted within the CEN/ISSS Workshop eCAT that aims at setting the basis for harmonized e-catalog standards. As part of this workshop, we present a framework and a...

background:   objective: to determine whether different diagnostic criteria of gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) are suitable for iranian population.   materials and methods: prospective study was performed on 617 pregnant women. 1804 subjects referred for 50 g glucose challenge test (gct) between 24th and 28 th weeks of gestation. 617 women with abnormal gct (blood glucose ≥130 mg/dl) underw...

Soft Matrix theory is a newly emerging mathematical tool to deal with uncertain problems. In this paper, we define IFSM and different types of IFSM with example. Finally we extend our approach in application of these matrices in (Agriculture) decision making problems.

A comparative study of the original and market samples of the KUNDUR (Oleo-Gum-Resin of Boswellia serrata Roxb.) with special reference to its chemical standardization and the qualitative and quantitative studies have been discussed here.

Rabeprazole sodium is a new stable pharmaceutical composition developed by us in tablet form, consisting of rabeprazole sodium as active ingredient, excipients, a separating layer and enteric coating. The manufacturing method involves pressing with preliminary wet granulation. In this work, a method was developed for the quantitative determination of rabeprazole sodium in tablets with simultane...