Since 2003 medicinal grade cannabis is provided in the Netherlands on prescription through pharmacies. Growing, processing and packaging of the plant material are performed according to pharmaceutical standards and are supervised by the official Office of Medicinal Cannabis (OMC). The quality is guaranteed through regular testing by certified laboratories. However, in the Netherlands a tolerate...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relation of maxillary sinus retention cysts (RCs) to ostiomeatal complex (OMC) obstruction and anatomic variation of the paranasal sinuses. METHODS The results of 410 computed tomographic scans of the sinuses ordered by otolaryngologists in an academic center during a 1-year period were reviewed. Computed tomographic scans with maxillary sinus RCs were studied to de...

Forty new low mass members with spectral types ranging from M4−M9 have been confirmed in the Orion Molecular Cloud 2/3 region. Through deep, I−, z−, J−, H− and K−band photometry of a 20 × 20 field in OMC 2/3, we selected brown dwarf candidates for follow-up spectroscopy. Low resolution farred and near-infrared spectra were obtained for the candidates, and 19 young brown dwarfs in the OMC 2/3 re...

We investigated the effect of balloon-occluded arterial infusion (BOAI) of anticancer agent (cisplatin/gemcitabine), used concomitantly with hemodialysis, which delivers an extremely high concentration of anticancer agent to the site of a tumor without systemic adverse effects, along with concurrent radiation (referred to as the OMC-regimen) in patients with advanced bladder cancer. One hundred...

Objective The laparoscopic approach is the procedure of choice for cholecystectomy, but the cost of such an operation is very high because it needs expensive, special instruments Laparascopic cholecystectomy (LC) also has a higher risk of biliary injury when compared with conventional open cholecystectomy (COC). Open, minimally invasive cholecystectomy is an alternative procedure that comprises...

This paper looks at the introduction of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) to EU policymaking. This new mode of governance has been developed over the last decade and has received considerable attention in the literature. However, much of this writing fails to put the OMC into the broader context of EMU; in contrast, this paper links the Amsterdam employment title to the prior Maastricht dec...

Infections involving paranasal sinuses and nasal cavities is one of the common public health problem in all age groups. Functional endoscopic sinus surgery has revolutionized in the treatment of sinusitis. MDCT has been the most ideal investigation in the assessment of paranasal sinuses especially in the identification of various anatomical variations that predispose to development of sinus inf...

BACKGROUND Despite the prevalence of rhinosinusitis that affects 10%-15% of the population, current inhalation therapy shows limited efficacy. Standard devices deliver <5% of the drugs to the sinuses due to the complexity of nose structure, secluded location of the sinus, poor ventilation, and lack of control of particle motions inside the nasal cavity. METHODS An electric-guided delivery sys...

Two distinct species of gonococcal porin proteins exist that differ with regard to surface exposure. Protein IB, expressed by strains of the WII/III serogroup, has both termini buried in the outer membrane, leaving a central region of the molecule exposed at the cell surface. We have attempted to define this region of protein IB in detail by studying the antigenic and immunogenic properties of ...

Abstract Magnetic fields play an important role in the evolution of molecular clouds and star formation. Using velocity gradient technique (VGT) model, we measured magnetic field Orion A using 12 CO, 13 C 18 O(1-0) emission lines at a scale ∼0.07 pc. The B shows east–west orientation that is perpendicular to integral shaped filament large scale. VGT obtained from CO O are agreement with Planck ...