UNLABELLED HIV care and treatment settings provide an opportunity to reach people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) with prevention messages and services. Population-based surveys in sub-Saharan Africa have identified HIV risk behaviors among PLHIV, yet data are limited regarding HIV risk behaviors of PLHIV in clinical care. This paper describes the baseline sociodemographic, HIV transmission risk b...

BACKGROUND Despite an urgent need for new medications, clinical trials in Parkinson's have a relatively low rate of success. Although many reasons have been proposed for this, the opinions of patients and scientists, the two principal stakeholders, have not been widely canvassed. OBJECTIVE The objective of the present study was to establish the main barriers to clinical trials success in Park...

The risk of falls is higher in patients with people with Parkinsonism (PwP) compared to those without Parkinsonism, and leads to adverse outcomes including fragility fractures. Osteoporosis is under-recognised, and the prevalence of fragility fractures in not well studied. The primary aim of this project is for 100% of new patient referrals to, and 80% of follow up patients within the movement ...

Container-grown quiescent Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca (Beissn.) Franco) seedlings were air dried to plant water potentials of -0.2, -2.2 or -3.8 MPa (unstressed, moderate, and severe stress treatments, respectively). Trees from each treatment were either placed in root mist chambers held at 10, 20, or 28 degrees C for 28 days and root growth potential (RGP) and plant water po...

Pancreatic cancer is generally refractory to most chemotherapeutic agents. We investigated whether hSSTR2 expression and octreotide treatment reverse multidrug resistance of human pancreatic cancer cells. We used pancreatic cancer cells that were transfected by using a lentivirus expression system, which allowed stable expression of the hSSTR2 gene in the pancreatic cancer cells. BxPC-3 cells w...

evaluate at rest the shortand long-term effects of oral nifedipine (N) in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH). Design and Setting: A prospective study with ten consecu tive cases during two years in a setting of a district acute hospital. Thtients or Partkipants: Seven patients with advanced COPD and three with severe lung fibrosis (LF) during a period of stable condition. Three patients ...

Protozoan parasites of the genus Perkinsus are considered important pathogens responsible for mass mortalities in many wild and farmed bivalve populations. The present study was initiated to screen populations of the Indian edible oyster Crassostrea madrasensis, a promising candidate for aquaculture along the Indian coasts, for the presence of Perkinsus spp. The study reports the presence of P....

Purpose Anxiety is a common non-motor symptom of Parkinson’s and there no specific pharmacological intervention for people with who experience anxiety. Yet little research documenting how individuals this condition It important to explore the experiences identify potential issues in developing future non-pharmacological interventions. This study explored lived anxiety Parkinson’s. Materials met...

This study investigated some quality attributes of the functional properties turmeric rhizome flour cultived in Côte d’Ivoire. It consisted comparing powder with film (PWF) and without (PWAF) to identify nutritionally technologically appropriate uses. In terms properties, PWAF had best water absorption rates (1032.156 ± 34.016%), stability (74.3%), solubility index (19.50%) very good wettabilit...

Fractures are the dominant conditions for rainfall infiltration into slopes, which can aggravate instability of landslides. However, few studies have been conducted to analyze in detail and deformation characteristics creeping landslides with fractures. In view this, this study investigated a landslide Fu’ao Village, Wencheng County, Zhejiang Province China determine how fractures affect during...