Appendectomy is one of the most common surgical procedures. The surgical techniques to perform appendectomy are various, ranging from the open technique, first described by Mac Burney in 1894 and which has been the gold standard for the management of acute appendicitis for more than a century, to the standard three ports laparoscopic approach described by Semm In 1983 [1]. The Port exteriorizat...

BACKGROUND Poor self-rated health (SRH) is socially patterned with health communication inequalities, arguably, serving as one mechanisms. This study investigated the effects of health information seeking on SRH, and its mediation effects on disparities in SRH. METHODS We conducted probability-based telephone surveys administered over telephone in 2009, 2010/11 and 2012 to monitor health info...

The sharing of information between the lay public and medical professionals is crucial to the conduct of personalized medicine using genomic information in the near future. Mass media, such as newspapers, can play an important role in disseminating scientific information. However, studies on the role of newspaper coverage of genome-related articles are highly limited. We investigated the covera...

Currently online news sites have greatly satisfied the expectations of the readers, and there has been a decrease in the circulation of print newspapers. Proliferation of various e newspapers has given a lot of choices to people so that there is a growing competition between the two. Here an attempt is made to gather all the available literature resources so that the research will enable the pr...

Newspapers are rich records of U.S. history. Due to the deterioration of older newspapers, the National Endowment for the Humanities is archiving 19th century newspapers on microfilm. Although microfilm is a good preservation method, it provides limited access to researchers and the general public. We are building a system to provide universal access to digital images and full-text content of h...

The TV oak (Television Oak) conflict concerned felling an old tree in a wealthy area of Stockholm. The case received great public attention in different media formats with different scopes (e.g., newspapers, television, internet). The TV Oak issue involved actors with different, partly conflicting perceptions. Assuming that the relevance of urban tree management issues in particular leads to in...