objective the aim of this study was to identify the best criteria for diagnosis of migraine in our pediatric population. materials and methods a total of 85 children aged below 15 years who had been referred to the neurology clinic of al-zahra hospital with headache as their chief complaint, were enrolled. validated questionnaires were completed by them. the patients were evaluated using five s...

OBJECTIVE To compare the attitudes and opinions of otologists and neurologists regarding the cause, diagnosis, and management of vestibular migraine. STUDY DESIGN Survey questionnaire. METHODS An 18-question survey designed to elicit opinions about the cause, diagnosis, pathophysiology, and management of migraine and dizziness was mailed to the entire memberships of the American Neurotology...

PRIMARY CARE IS A MAJOR FOCUS of health policy discussions in the United States today. In this paper we describe the primary care system established at a small rural Indian Health Service (IHS) hospital, the ZuniRamah Comprehensive Health Care Center, in Zuni, N. Mex. We offer this report as a feasibility study to encourage further evaluation and implementation of primary care in the IHS. The I...

Intensity-Hue-Saturation (IHS), Brovey Transform (BT), and Smoothing-FilterBased-Intensity Modulation (SFIM) algorithms were used to pansharpen GeoEye-1 imagery. The pansharpened images were then segmented in Berkeley Image Seg using a wide range of segmentation parameters, and the spatial and spectral accuracy of image segments was measured. We found that pansharpening algorithms that preserve...

IMPORTANCE Infantile hemangiomas (IHs) are the most common tumors of infancy. OBJECTIVES To describe the patterns of occurrence of lip IHs and correlate these findings with patterns of anatomical distortion and predictable clinical outcomes and to describe the surgical management of these lesions. DESIGN A retrospective medical record review of patients diagnosed as having facial IH of the ...

Purpose Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) is often characterized by excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) and sleep-onset rapid eye movement periods caused by muscleblind-like protein 2. The EDS tends to persist even after treatment of sleep apnea. We measured the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) orexin levels in DM1 patients with EDS and compared the clinical characteristics with narcolepsy type 1 and idi...

Random Oracle Model (ROM) is an effective method for measuring the practical security of cryptograph. In this paper, we try to use it into information hiding system (IHS). Because IHS has its own properties, the ROM must be modified if it is used into IHS. Firstly, we fully discuss why and how to modify each part of ROM respectively. The main changes include: 1) Divide the attacks that IHS may ...

American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations report poor physical and mental health outcomes while tribal health providers and the Indian Health Service (IHS) operate in a climate of significant under funding. Understanding how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) affects Native American tribes and the IHS is critical to addressing the improvement of the overall access,...