background advances in burn care over the past 50 years have brought about remarkable improvement in mortality rates such that survival has become an expected outcome even in patients with extensive injuries. although these improvements have occurred in all age groups, survival in older adults still lags far behind that in younger cohorts. this study determines the outcomes of older adults with...

objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of music therapy on depression and loneliness of elderly. methods & materials: research instruments consisted of the geriatric depression scale, loneliness scale and music therapy package, all administered on 20 men and 18 women through a pretest-posttest with control group. results: results indicated that music therapy decreases d...

background esophageal cancer is highly prevalent among the turkman people in northeastern iran. in order to evaluate its etiology, there is an on-going prospective cohort study in this area involving approximately 50000 subjects over the age of 40 years. the majority of these subjects are illiterate, thus obtaining inâ­formed consent is very important and difficult. methods initially, we explai...

233 Last year saw the posthumous publication of Stephen Jay Gould’s last volume, The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister’s Pox (Gould, 2003) with the subtitle ‘Mending and minding the misconceived gap between science and the humanities’. The two protagonists were chosen to represent metaphorically a stereotypical disparity between two different ways of ‘knowing’ or looking at nature. The hedgeho...

We studied the role of European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) as a reservoir for Coxiella burnetii in the Iberian region. High individual and population seroprevalences observed in wild and farmed rabbits, evidence of systemic infections, and vaginal shedding support the reservoir role of the European rabbit for C. burnetii.

In this study, cottontail rabbit papillomavirus infection of domestic rabbits was used as an animal model to develop papillomavirus early gene-based vaccines. Groups of rabbits were intracutaneously vaccinated with single papillomavirus early genes E1, E2, E6, and E7 or with a combination of these four genes. Only a fraction of rabbits were protected from subsequent viral challenge when vaccina...

Background Unhealthy drug use (UDU), including both illicit drug use and misuse of prescription medications, is high among Americans 12 or older (9.4% past month; 48% lifetime), and is often 50-100% higher among emergency department (ED) patients (Cherpitel & Ye, 2008). While most screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) projects focus on questionnaire screening for UDU, ...