Tuberculosis remains a public health problem in Brazil. In 2003, controlling tuberculosis was highlighted as a priority among health public policies. The article reports the Brazilian response to this challenge, describing the main strategies of the National Control Plan for 2003 to 2006. Among its main results are: expansion of strategic coverage of the supervised treatment, increase in the pe...

The 2 Spanish groups, Grupo Español de MM (GEM) and Programa para el Estudio de la Terapéutica en Hemopatía Maligna (PETHEMA), report on the superiority of both event-free survival (EFS) and overall survival (OS) in patients in whom complete response (CR) status was achieved, compared with lesser response categories (near-CR [nCR], very good partial response [VGPR], partial response [PR]), in a...

PRESENTATION OF THE CASE A 61-year-old man undergoes a sigmoid colectomy for a T3N1 (two of 18 nodes) adenocarcinoma of the sigmoid colon. He recovers well and receives 6 months of adjuvant FOLFOX (5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, and oxaliplatin) uneventfully. At his first follow-up visit, the oncologist recommended every 3 month visits for a physical, liver function tests, and carcinoembryonic ant...

Corporations, consumers, the uninsured and doctors had all been clamoring for reform, and the question of why the project failed has nagged at Cutler ever since, especially as the problems have continued to worsen. In the years since he left Washington, which was in 1994, the ranks of the uninsured have surged, from 35 million people to 45 million. There are also serious gaps in the quality of ...

zno thin films with preferred orientation along the (002) plane were prepared onto the glass substrates by the sol-gel spin coating method for different post- annealing temperatures. the xrd study confirms that the thin films grown by this method have good crystalline hexagonal wurtzite structure. the optical band gap of the samples was determined from uv-visible spectra. it is found that the s...

Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) is highly effective at preventing morbidity and mortality due to infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but does not eradicate the virus. Consequently, cART must be administered life-long. Recent progress has stimulated research towards a cure of HIV infection. Approaches under investigation include hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, l...