OBJECTIVE To determine potential risk factors that could predict stress fractures over an 8-week basic military training in Chinese male infantry recruits. METHODS Recruits from three infantry units enrolled in this prospective study. At baseline, demographic data, personal history of stress fractures, mean duration of weekly exercise and smoking history were recorded on questionnaires and bl...

BRCA1 and BRCA2 screening in women at high-risk of breast cancer results in the identification of both unambiguously defined deleterious mutations and sequence variants of unknown clinical significance (VUS). We examined a population-based sample of young women with contralateral breast cancer (CBC, n=705) or unilateral breast cancer (UBC, n=1398). We identified 470 unique sequence variants, of...

6. Morris JA, Blount RE, Savage RE. Recovery of cytopathic agent from chimpanzees with coryza. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 1956;92:544–50. 7. Olicker A, Li H, Tatsuoka C, Ross K, Trembath A, Hibba AM. Have changing palivizumab administration policies led to more respiratory morbidity in infants born at 32-35 weeks? J Pediatr 2016;171:31–7. 8. American Academy of Pediatrics. Modified recommendations f...

Background and Purpose—A novel sequence variation in the 39-untranslated region of the prothrombin (factor II) gene (nucleotide 20210 G3A) has been recently described as a risk factor for deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. It is found in '1% to 4% of healthy subjects. We studied the frequency of this factor II variant in patients with cerebral venous thrombosis. Methods—The 20210A all...

OBJECTIVES To assess the co-occurrence of past-month physical assault of a dating partner and violence against peers and siblings among a locally representative sample of high school students and to explore correlates of dating violence (DV) perpetration. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey design. SETTING Twenty-two public high schools in Boston, Massachusetts. PARTICIPANTS A sample of urban h...

Pneumococcal infection is common in children with HIV infection, but osteomyelits is unusual. The best treatment for bone and joint infection due to antibiotic resistant pneumococci is not known, especially in immunocompromised children.A 6 month old girl, infected with HIV by mother to child transmission, had recently started combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). She presented with osteom...

Despite recent improvements in treatment for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), half of all patients with a regional or advanced disease will die within 5 years from diagnosis. Therefore, identification of mechanisms driving the aggressive behavior of HNSCC is of utmost importance. Because p120-catenin (CTNND1/P120CTN) downregulation and PIK3CA mutations are commonly found in HNSCC,...