BACKGROUND Tungiasis, an ectoparasitosis caused by the female sand flea Tunga penetrans, is an important health problem in many impoverished communities in the tropics. Sand flea disease is associated with a broad spectrum of clinical pathology and severe sequels are frequent. Treatment options are limited. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We assessed the effectiveness of the intermittent appli...

Methods M.E.A.D. was used as a measurement tool. Thirty healthy volunteers from the University were recruited. We measured once every week and twice every time in a 30 minute interval. In the first week, 30 subjects sat and rested during the interval, which served as the control group. We compared these two measurements in the first week by reliability analysis. In the second week, we stimulate...

The vigour and growth of seedlings of CRIC60 cultivar of coconut were studied in different irrigation treatments during the drought period, in a sandy soil in the dry zone. Nine irrigation treatments including a control with no watering were tested. Larger number of casualties were observed in the control while none in the irrigated plots. The best irrigation treatments in order of response wer...

Although the standard of care for patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GM) remains postoperative radiotherapy (RT) in combination with chemotherapy (CT), the optimal regimen awaits verification. A phase I study was performed to determine the dose limiting toxicity (DLT) and the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of topotecan (Hycamptin), given concurrently with RT, in patients with previously untre...

We report a case study of a 55-year-old white male with severe persistent refractory corticosteroid-dependent asthma receiving inhaled combination therapy with fluticasone propionate 500 mug and salmeterol 50 mug twice-daily in addition to 6-week cycles of oral corticosteroid treatment for the previous 7 months. The patient was switched to high-dose mometasone furoate delivered via a dry powder...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine whether the frequency of breakfast consumption was related to academic performance in healthy Korean adolescents. METHODS We analyzed data from the seventh Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey conducted in 2011, in which 75,643 adolescents from school grades 7-12 participated. We assessed the association between the frequency of breakf...

Methods The study had an experimental prospective design, with a total of 10 women (mean age; 53 years, ±5.4). The participants underwent TM twice a week for six weeks resulting in a total of 120 treatments. For short-term effects, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, heart rate and blood glucoses were assessed by the therapist before and after each treatment. Long-term assessments were made ...

BACKGROUND Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) or Parkinsonian syndromes often report excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS). The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of the psychostimulant modafinil on elderly, institutionalized, severely impaired PD patients with EDS. METHOD A three-week open study on ten institutionalized PD patients scoring >10 points on the Epworth Sleepiness Sca...