Benjamin H. Rotstein,†,‡ Serge Zaretsky,† Vishal Rai,†,§ and Andrei K. Yudin*,† †Davenport Research Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario Canada, M5S 3H6 ‡Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, Massachusetts 021...

301 Correspondence to: Paweł Maga, MD, PhD, Klinika Angiologii, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Collegium Medicum, ul. Skawińska 8, 31-066 Kraków, Poland, phone: +48-12-430-52-66, fax: +48-12-430-50-62, e-mail: [email protected] Received: February 13, 2015. Revision accepted: February 18, 2015. Published online: February 20, 2015. Conflict of interest: none declared. Pol Arch Med Wewn. 2015; 125 (...

Equids are considered highly resistant to mycobacterial infections and clinical cases have been described in domestic horses only. Mycobacterium bovis is the most common species reported, although a single report exists of disease due to definitively diagnosed infection with Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis in two domestic horses. This is the first report of a mycobacterial infection in a...

Abstract Introduction Controversy surrounding sex education for youth has led to increased clinical content in these curricula, emphasizing health implications of sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy prevention methods while failing acknowledge nuanced areas such as pleasure or masturbation. The increasingly medicalized approach high school students represents a missed opportunity prov...

Background: The events that trigger type 2 immune responses are not well characterized. Given the central role of sweat in maintaining skin hydration, sweating disturbance at points allergen entry would predispose to food sensitization. A previous study demonstrated epicutaneously applied hapten more readily penetrates stratum corneum with a lower water content than higher water. Thus, is likel...