Movember is a global campaign that asks men to grow moustaches in the 11th month of the year, “with the aim of raising vital funds and awareness of men’s health issues.” The campaign launched in the United Kingdom in 2007 (http://uk. movember.com), with funds going to the Prostate Cancer Charity (now Prostate Cancer UK). In 2010 funds started going also to the Institute of Cancer Research to fu...

Frequent generalized itemset mining is a data mining technique utilized to discover a high-level view of interesting knowledge hidden in the analyzed data. By exploiting a taxonomy, patterns are usually extracted at any level of abstraction. However, some misleading high-level patterns could be included in the mined set. This paper proposes a novel generalized itemset type, namely theMisleading...

Chest pain is a common complaint in a patient presents to the emergency department(ED) and it caused by several life threatening conditions such as esophageal perforation. A 78 years old man known case of ischemic heart disease came into the ED with complaint of chest pain, physical examinations were normal on arrival. Electrocardiogram and chest x ray were no specific. Eventually he was admitt...

The authors fail to control for relevant "third" variables that could easily explain the weak correlations that they find. Family violence exposure for instance, peer group influences, certainly genetic influences on aggressive behavior are just a few relevant variables that ought either be controlled or at minimum acknowledged as alternate causal agents for (very small) link between video game...

We report the case of a 73-year-old women admitted to ICU with a diagnosis of tetanum supported by a mild trismus and treated with potentially unsafe drugs until the correct diagnosis was made.

Background: The general population’s understanding of musculoskeletal health is likely influenced by media reports of the ailments of prominent athletes. We assessed factors independently associated with debatable or potentially misleading medical statements in mainstream sports media coverage of the ailments of professional and college athletes.Methods: We identified and assessed 200 Int...

The percentage of the population described as elderly is growing, and a higher prevalence of multiple, chronic disease states must be managed concurrently. Healthcare practitioners must appropriately use medication for multiple diseases and avoid risks often associated with multiple medication use such as adverse effects, drug/drug interactions, drug/disease interactions, and inappropriate dosi...

Waxed paper sputum cartons obtained from the manufacturers contained very few organisms. Similar cartons which had been stored in hospital wards were often contaminated with hospital dust. This contamination was sometimes sufficiently marked to be misleading. Coliform organisms are particularly liable to cause confusion. Waxed cartons are useful for collecting sputum, but they must be properly ...