Data relating to the use of hypnotic medicines from a descriptive epidemiological study of drug use in 55 residential homes for elderly people were analysed. Of the 1888 residents included in the study, 435 (23.0%) were receiving a total of 448 hypnotic medicines. There was preferential prescribing of short-acting benzodiazepines but long-acting benzodiazepines represented 31.7% of all hypnotic...

background: choriocarcinoma is a rare highly malignant trophoblastic neoplasm. it can be preceded by any form of gestation including a complete or a partial mole, miscarriage and normal pregnancy. simultaneous intraplacental choriocarcinoma involving both mother and infant is extremely rare. hepatomegaly, anemia, elevated ßhcg is the diagnostic triad. here we report a 6 weeks old afghan girl in...

introduction infantile colic is somehow believed to be the worst pain a baby has thus experienced. it is usually manifested as an acute abdominal pain with intense spasmodic cramping accompanied by intense crying lasting for more than 3 hours a day during at least a three days period. accordingly, this study is aimed to investigate the effects of fumaria on such pain in 3-16 weeks-old infants. ...

hemangiopericytoma is a rare vascular tumor observed mostly in adults. it usually presents with a painless slowly enlarging mass. the infantile type with much rarer occurrence has a different course compared to adults. very few case reports have been described in the literature with disease onset in the infancy. the first reported case of infantile hemangiopericytoma of limbs from the middle ea...