to resort to trickery to get repeat prescriptions, but it wasn't too difficult, and as I had no underworld contacts, I had to get my supply In due course my mental and physical health deteriorated and I was forced to tell my tale of woe to my doctor, who calmly scrawled another prescription for Duraphet instead. After four months in a mental hospital 1 was freed of my hell. That was two years a...

The renal toxicities of non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) have been well reported [1] and the mechanism of injury is thought to be mediated by haemodynamic perturbation which results in functional renal ischaemia. The typical histological abnormality is acute tubular necrosis, which is usually reversible. Anthraquinone and its derivatives are frequently found in slimming agents and h...

Deploying deep neural networks on mobile devices is a challenging task. Current model compression methods such as matrix decomposition effectively reduce the deployed model size, but still cannot satisfy real-time processing requirement. This paper first discovers that the major obstacle is the excessive execution time of non-tensor layers such as pooling and normalization without tensor-like t...

The aim of this study was to determine how worthwhile it would be to combine a newly developed topical slimming product with customized dietary habits not based on calorie restriction, so as to improve the cellulite appearance of the skin. At the beginning of the study, a nutritionist recorded the dietary habits of each participant and gave recommendations to each of them according to their foo...

objective: in recent years the use of herbal slimming supplements has increased in iran. one problem may be the illegal inclusion of synthetic drugs by some manufacturers in these products. the aim of this study is to determine four undeclared synthetic adulterants in some herbal slimming products present in the iranian market. methods: this survey studyresearched six common herbal slimming sup...

Background: Self-medication of slimming supplements has increased, and media advertising has a role in this. The present study aimed at determining the effect of media literacy educational intervention on attitudes about self-medication of slimming supplements among the female students at dormitories of Iran University of Medical Sciences.    Methods: In this quasi-experimental study...

Body weight has risen in defiance of health and appearance norms. This is framed in terms of the problem of time-inconsistency and self-control. The social epidemics of overeating and slimming were driven by market forces and the psychology of eating: restrained eating was easily disinhibited by the stresses of new rewards. For men, the rise in body weight was associated with the decline of fam...

The Media comprises the communication channels of TV, radio, newspapers (national and regional), magazines and specialist publications. Within these channels, communication can be via the editorial material, the advertising material or the advertorials (adverts cleverly designed as editorials!). There is not a single method within any of the communication channels which is not used to promulgat...