Sarcopenia has increasingly been proposed as a predictor of response to treatment in oncology patients. In the August 2015 issue of The Oncologist, Arrieta et al. reported that routinely screening for sarcopenia and nutritional status was helpful in determining the next step of chemotherapy as well as toxicities in patientswithnon-smallcell lungcancer [1].Theauthorsspecifically addressed the as...

The case of a 16-month-old boy is described who had typical clinical and radiological features and was proven biochemically to be a case of Menke's disease. Clinical manifestations began in the first few months with hypothermia, hypotonia, seizures and death occurring at the age of 18 months.

Temporal medical data is often collected during patient treatments that require personal analysis. Each observation recorded in the temporal medical data is associated with measurements and time treatments. A major problem in the analysis of temporal medical data are the missing values that are caused, for example, by patients dropping out of a study before completion. Therefore, the imputation...

Gorlin-Goltz syndrome is a rare genetic condition showing a variable expressiveness. It is inherited in a dominant autosomal way. The strongest characteristic of the disease includes multiple basal cell carcinomas, jaw cysts, palmar and plantar pits, skeletal abnormalities and other developmental defects. Owing to the fact that the condition tends to be a multisystemic disorder, familiarity of ...

Many physicians, midwives and lactation consultants still believe that yeasts (particularly Candida spp.) play an important role as an agent of nipple and breast pain despite the absolute absence of scientific proofs to establish such association. In this context, the objective of this study was to investigate the microorganisms involved in sore nipples and/or painful "shooting" breastfeeding b...

INTRODUCTION We examined responses of volunteers with known medical disease to G forces in a centrifuge to evaluate how potential commercial spaceflight participants (SFPs) might tolerate the forces of spaceflight despite significant medical history. METHODS Volunteers were recruited based upon suitability for each of five disease categories (hypertension, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, lu...

Novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a newly discovered contagious that has affected many countries around the world. Although diffuse alveolar damage and acute respiratory failure are main features, involvement of other organs recognized needs to be explored. Information on kidney in patients with COVID-19 limited, studies showing injury an uncommon disorder COVID-19. Despite this low preva...