RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME (RLS) IS A FREQUENT NEUROLOGIC DISORDER WITH A PREVALENCE OF APPROXIMATELY 10% IN THE GENERAL CAUCASIAN population.1,2 Essential features comprise the urge to move the legs, usually accompanied by unpleasant sensations; onset or worsening of symptoms during periods of rest or inactivity; partial or total relief by movement; and worsening of symptoms in the evening or at n...

background: cancer registries are important infrastructure for cancer control programs. however most developing countries lack population based cancer registry. in iran there cancer incidence is estimated based on pathology-based cancer registry. in this study we evaluated results of the nationwide pathology-based cancer registry in iran. materials and methods: we compared age-standardized inci...

We previously demonstrated that exposure of certain human tumor cells to very low chronic doses of ionizing radiation led to their enhanced survival following exposure to subsequent high doses of radiation. Survival enhancement due to these adaptive survival responses (ASRs) ranged from 1.5-fold to 2.2-fold in many human tumor cells. Furthermore, we showed that ASRs result from altered G1 check...

INTRODUCTION Alcohol use is a widely prevalent problem and poses hazard during work for certain groups such as fishermen. Disorders such as Attention-Deficit/Hyperkinetic Disorder (ADHD) correlate with early onset and greater severity of alcohol use disorders. AIMS We planned to study the frequency of ADHD among fishermen in a fishing hamlet of southern India using adult ADHD self-reported sc...

The Survey In 2000 a survey was conducted in Los Angeles area using a questionnaire, which was distributed among ministers, educators, church administrators, and laity. Since the variables of this research were very complex and difficult to measure, no attempt was made to produce any conclusive and quantifiable results, but instead patterns in data were looked for, and the researcher sought to ...

There has been a lot of research targeting text classification. Many of them focus on a particular characteristic of text data multi-labelity. This arises due to the fact that a document may be associated with multiple classes at the same time. The consequence of such a characteristic is the low performance of traditional binary or multi-class classification techniques on multi-label text data....

BACKGROUND Hepatitis B virus infection is one of the most important risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma. Hepatitis B vaccination has been obligatory in the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) in Khon Kaen since 1990. OBJECTIVE To compare the incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma in children in Khon Kaen province before and after the introduction of national hepatitis B vaccination pr...

The Sustainable Development Goals 2030 call for an end to poverty in all its forms everywhere through the adoption of integrated social protection policies. However, recent literature suggests implicit and explicit discrimination towards asylum seekers refugees (ASRs) United Kingdom policy, leading high rates destitution, poor health isolation. Due limited nature UK government support, many ASR...

INTRODUCTION Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer in China. The incidence of CRC has been increasing in recent years. The aim of this study was to explore the incidence trends and the age distribution of CRC by subsite in Guangzhou between 2000 and 2011. METHODS A total of 22,432 incident cases of CRC between 2000 and 2011 from Guangzhou Cancer Registry were identified. Cru...