As the highly blood flow of thyroid gland post-thyroidectomy bleeding (PTB) is a serious and life-threatening complication. Our aim was to investigate factors that influenced bleeding after thyroidectomy. Between February 2008 and September 2012, the data of 4449 consecutive patients with thyroid diseases undergoing thyroidectomy were collected and analysed from the department of surgical oncol...

Background: Obesity is the cause of other chronic diseases, psychological problems, obesity shortens the lifespan and puts strain on health systems. The risk associated with childhood obesity in particular, which will accelerate the development of adult morbidity and mortality, has been identified as an emerging public health problem. Methods: To estimate the length of stay and associated hospi...

Results: Less number of infants with growth faltering (p=0.093) and acute gastroenteritis (p=0.135) while more infants crawled, longer period of lactational amenorrhea (p= 0.276) and higher mean maternal weight loss (p=0.152) observed in 6 months EBF group compared to the other two groups. No significant differences in mean serum iron concentration and mean haemoglobin concentration among the t...

In the early days, connecting devices with a computer involved many different connectors and the attachment of the devices had to be done before the host computer was powered on. The universal serial bus (USB) has replaced many of those old-fashioned connectors and provides a unified and universal connector with hot-plug support. The versatility of the USB makes it an indispensable way of conne...

Using a combination of polling data and previous election results, Nate Silver successfully predicted the Electoral College distribution in the presidential election in 2008 with 98% accuracy and in 2012 with 100% accuracy. This study applies a Bayesian analysis of polls, assuming a normal posterior using a conjugate prior. The data were taken from the Huffington Posts Pollster. States were div...

BACKGROUND Research suggests that levels of discrimination against people using mental health services are high; however, reports of these people's experiences are rare. AIMS To determine whether the Time to Change (TTC) programme target of 5% reduction in discrimination has been achieved. METHOD Separate samples of people using mental health services were interviewed annually from 2008 to ...