Non-Alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a broad term covering spectrum of conditions ranging from hepatic steatosis, steatohepatitis and cirrhosis. NAFLD highly prevalent across all regions the world with its global prevalence 25.2%(95%CI:22.1-28.7). It commonly referred as ‘hepatic manifestation’ metabolic syndrome (MetS). Moreover, it strongly associated individual components well MetS w...

R-loopDB (http://rloop.bii.a-star.edu.sg) was originally constructed as a collection of computationally predicted R-loop forming sequences (RLFSs) in the human genic regions. The renewed R-loopDB provides updates, improvements and new options, including access to recent experimental data. It includes genome-scale prediction of RLFSs for humans, six other animals and yeast. Using the extended qu...

Increasing tobacco screening in health care settings is a Healthy People 2020 objective. This report looks at adult cigarette smokers in the general household population and whether a doctor or other health professional had talked to them about their smoking in the past 12 months. About one-half of all adult cigarette smokers (51.2%) had a doctor or other health professional talk to them about ...

BACKGROUND Non-medical prescription opioid (NMPO) use is a substantial public health problem in the United States, with 1.5 million new initiates annually. Only 746,000 people received treatment for NMPO use in 2013, demonstrating substantial disparities in access to treatment. This study aimed to assess correlates of accessing substance use treatment among young adult NMPO users in Rhode Islan...