Copyright © 2016 by the American Academy of Pediatrics In September 2015, the American Academy of Pediatrics endorsed the following publication: Gloss D, Moxley RT III, Ashwal S, Oskoui M. Practice guideline update summary: corticosteroid treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy: report of the Guideline Development Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. Neurology. 2016;86(5):465–472...

Patrícia C. Sousa 1 , Fernando T. Pinho 2 , Manuel A. Alves 1 and Mónica S.N. Oliveira * 1Departamento de Engenharia Química, CEFT, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal 2CEFT, Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal 3James Weir Fluids Labora...

CAP value among the 3 groups. MANOVA multivariate analysis evaluated differences in overall CAPs and the effects of age, gender, Mueller grade and stings number. A P , 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Data were analysed by ‘SPSS’ 13.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL). We called NS patients to check if they were stung after VIT discontinuation. Results: We selected 84 NS, 72 SP3 and 76 SP5...

Background: Significant increases in the bacterial resistance to various antibiotics have been found in fish farms. Non-antibiotic therapies for infectious diseases in aquaculture are needed. In recent years, light-emitting diode technology has been applied to the inactivation of pathogens, especially those affecting humans. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of blue light (wave...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate diagnostic imaging costs before and after DTS implementation in patients with suspected thoracic lesions on CXR. METHODS Four hundred sixty-five patients (263 male, 202 female; age, 72.47 ± 11.33 years) with suspected thoracic lesion(s) after CXR underwent DTS. Each patient underwent CT when a pulmonary non-calcified lesion was identified by DTS while CT was not perform...