OBJECTIVE Substance use disorders (SUDs) are associated with other mental disorders in adolescence, but it is unclear whether less severe substance use problems (SUPs) also increase risk. Because youths with SUPs are most likely to present first to their site of primary care, it is important to establish the presence and patterns of psychiatric comorbidity among adolescent primary care patients...

1971), hypersensitivity of the mucosa of the male urethra to antigens in the vaginal secretions of the female consort has been postulated as the mechanism of non-specific urethritis (NSU) (Weston, 1965). Precipitin tests show reactions not only between the urethral discharge of the patient and his consort's serum but also between the consort's vaginal secretions and the patient's serum. These c...

Ausgehend von der sekundären Viktimisierung NSU-Opfer, die im Zuge polizeilichen Ermittlungen als Täter identifiziert wurden, beschäftigt sich Artikel mit den affektiven Dimensionen struktureller Rassismuserfahrung. Durch Täter-Opfer- Umkehrungen und fehlende Bereitschaft zu umfassender Aufarbeitung des NSU-Komplexes schalteten rassistische Mechanismen in Prozess Trauer ein, sodass diese selbst...

OBJECTIVES To examine the effects of urethritis and its treatment on semen plasma HIV-1 RNA load in HIV-1 infected men not receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART), in a developed world setting. METHODS Prospective case-control study. HIV-1 infected homosexual men, not receiving ART for at least 3 months, with (cases) and without (controls) symptomatic urethritis, were recruited. Blood and seme...

Non-Sentential Utterances (NSUs) are short utterances that do not have the form of a full sentence but nevertheless convey a complete sentential meaning in the context of a conversation. NSUs are frequently used to ask follow up questions during interactions with question answer (QA) systems resulting into in-correct answers being presented to their users. Most of the current methods for resolv...

F or a clinical guideline to be of use, it needs to make clear recommendations for practice based on the available evidence. But what should be recommended when the evidence is finely balanced, limited and/or contradictory? An example of this is whether or not men without symptoms should be screened for non-specific urethritis (NSU)—a decision faced by virtually all clinicians working in sexual...