OBJECTIVE To investigate the value of combined screening by maternal characteristics and medical history, fetal biometry and biophysical and biochemical markers at 19-24 weeks' gestation, for prediction of delivery of small-for-gestational-age (SGA) neonates, in the absence of pre-eclampsia (PE), and examine the potential value of such assessment in deciding whether the third-trimester scan sho...

The article explores how childhood visits to doctors first became routine in Spain. The introduction of new models of prenatal care, childbirth, and childrearing required the extension of academic medicine into a terrain traditionally occupied by practitioners of popular medicine. Focusing on the status quo for most of the population in the final third of the nineteenth century, the study exami...

Aim: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) modulates antiviral immunity via T cells, but whether these cells are active or abundant in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients is unknown. The present study aimed to investigate the temporal shifting T-cell population and their subsets, T-Helper (Th) cell (CD4) T-Cytotoxic (Tc) (CD8) COVID-19 patients. Method: Thirty co...

1. Introduction From the 1980s, Korea and Taiwan have switched from a concentration on labour intensive products like textile and toys to technology intensive products such as semiconductors. In the process they had achieved by 1996 the respective positions of 12 th and 14 th largest exporters of merchandise in the world (WTO 1997, p.6). Over the same period, Korea and Taiwan have also increase...

Th e present study was planned to generate the G-band nomenclature of the commonly occurring Lohi sheep breed in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Whole blood samples were collected through jugular venepuncture in heparinised vacutainers. Th e metaphase slides were prepared using standard protocols. Th e results from microscopic screening of 50 good quality metaphase cells from each animal were ...

Tuberculosis is one of most ancient diseases affecting human populations. Although numerous studies have tried to detect pathogenic DNA in ancient skeletons, the successful identification of ancient tuberculosis strains remains rare. Here, we describe a study of 140 ancient subjects inhumed in Yakutia (Eastern Siberia) during a tuberculosis outbreak, dating from the 16(th)-19(th) century. For a...

This article describes the history of the nosology of anxiety disorders. Greek and Latin physicians and philosophers distinguished anxiety from other types of negative affect, and identified it as a medical disorder. Ancient Epicurean and Stoic philosophers suggested techniques to reach an anxiety-free state of mind that are reminiscent of modern cognitive psychology. Between classical antiquit...

Objective: Th e aim of this study was to determine the effi cacy of tongue somatosensory evoked potentials (tSSEP) in the evaluation of brainstem involvement in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods: tSSEP was performed in ten healthy volunteers and 29 patients with fi rst clinical episode of a demyelinating event suggestive of MS. Th e data obtained were compared between the two group...

Th e paper analyses the possibilities to develop communist heritage tourism in Bulgaria. After a review of related literature, the paper identifi es fi ve characteristics of communist heritage tourism: ideologically overburdened type of tourism, controversial, represents a limited time period of history, represents a personality cult, concentration of resources in places related with communist ...