Traditional Alaskan Native healing practices, specifically sweat bathing and hot springs bathing, have medical connotations in that they involve sociocultural factors important to practicing medicine among Alaskan Native people. At Serpentine Hot Springs in northwest Alaska, relief for arthritis,
Background: Spring-assisted surgery (SAS) is an accepted alternative to cranial vault remodeling (CVR) for treatment of sagittal craniosynostosis. The long-term safety and efficacy profiles of SAS have not been established.
OBJECTIVE
Surgical treatment of myogenic ptosis usually requires a form of frontalis suspension. Complications can include entropion, headache, contour abnormalities, and poor eyelid excursion. The Levine palpebral spring has been used successfully to augment eyelid closure in more than 2,000
A 38-year-old woman had an episode of headache, fever and convulsion in October, 1993. She became alert in two weeks, though weakness and atrophy remained in the upper limb muscles. She was diagnosed as Russian spring summer encephalitis (RSSE) based on several serological studies. Three kinds of
A 72-year-old man was exposed to the sarin gas attack in a Tokyo subway on March 20 th, 1995. After exposure, he noticed eye discomfort, chest tightness, headache and weakness of the lower limbs and oropharyngeal muscles. Despite these symptoms, he visited a hot spring on the same day with his
Sulfurous springs have been traditionally used in medical treatment for different purposes. These beneficial effects of sulfurous water have been attributed to the presence of sulfurous compounds mainly in the form of hydrogen sulfide (H2S). The purpose of the present study is to explore
Introduction: Haemoglobin H (Hb H) disease is an alpha thalassemia characterised by either 3 alpha-globin gene deletions (deletional type) or 2 alpha-globin gene deletions with 1-point mutation (nondeletional type). Haemoglobin H-Constant
OBJECTIVE
To study methods of diagnosis and treatment for atypical pneumonia (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), outbreak of the illness in Guangzhou during Jan. - Mar., 2003.
METHODS
190 cases with atypical pneumonia were analyzed, and the cases were admitted in Guangzhou municipal First Hospital
During spring 2001, college students from Pennsylvania reported an acute febrile respiratory illness after returning from spring break vacation in Acapulco, Mexico. Acute pulmonary histoplasmosis was presumptively diagnosed and the cluster of illness was reported to the Centers of Disease Control
BACKGROUND
Dolutegravir (S/GSK1349572) is a once-daily HIV integrase inhibitor with potent antiviral activity and a favourable safety profile. We compared dolutegravir with HIV integrase inhibitor raltegravir, as initial treatment for adults with HIV-1.
METHODS
SPRING-2 is a 96 week, phase 3,
The personal experience with cluster headache in 108 patients is reported. Significant clinical findings included a clear male predominance, with a male/female prevalence ratio of 4.7/1, the persistent homolateral character of pain during the attacks, seen in 100% of cases, and the tendency to
In a 38-year-old woman who had had CPH since the middle 1960s and had been successfully treated with indomethacin (dosage usually within the limits of 50-175 mg/day) for approximately 10 years, the requirement for indomethacin was gradually reduced to nought in the spring of 1985. She was then