background: we investigated the efficacy of a mobile-based  bolus advisor app in comparison with the usual multiple daily  injections (mdis) in diabetic patients. materials and methods: in a nonrandomized, controlled clinical trial, 62 diabetic patients  were selected to receive a 12-week intensive glycemic control by either a mobile-based bolus advisor (app) or mdi in the usual manner.we compa...

The Impact of Intensity of Aphasia Therapy on Recovery To the Editor: In a 2003 article in Stroke, Bhogal et al1 concluded intensive aphasia therapy ( 9 hours of treatment per week for 11 weeks) had a greater impact on speech and language outcomes for aphasic stroke patients than less intensive treatment ( 2 hours of treatment per week for 23 weeks). Findings from this article have been used to...

A range of methods in clinical research aim to assess treatment-induced progress in aphasia therapy. Here, we used a crossover randomized controlled design to compare the suitability of utterance-centered and dialogue-sensitive outcome measures in speech-language testing. Fourteen individuals with post-stroke chronic non-fluent aphasia each received two types of intensive training in counterbal...

Despite intensive research on mechanisms of recovery of function after stroke, surprisingly little is known about determinants of concurrent recovery of language and motor functions in single patients. The alternative hypotheses are that the two functions might either "fight for resources" or use the same mechanisms in the recovery process. Here, we present follow-up data of four exemplary pati...

introduction: some studies have suggested correlation between mpv index and inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis in adults. though bronchopulmonary dysplasia is also an inflammatory disease which develops in preterm neonates with respiratory distress syndrome, we decided to study the possible correlation between the mean platelet volume (mpv) and the occurrence of bronchopulmonary...

nowadays nanotechnology as a new direction of science allows us to develop therapeutic methods of the endogenous intoxication syndrome and to create a new class of biocompatible sorbents. in ukraine first preparations of medical nanotechnology were produced and patented in 1998. these are ikbb (intracorporeal biocorrector), magnet-controlled sorbent (mcs-b), and micromage-b. the preparations ar...