Medical and Biomedical Researches

Changing image of dental practice.

June 27th, 2008
Changing image of dental practice. Health planners considering the future delivery of oral health care for ealth planners considering the future delivery of oral health care for the public must include a re-evaluation of their traditional image of the dental practice setting. Issues reviewed are: the ...

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Just be the dentist!

June 27th, 2008
Just be the dentist! The motivation for writing this article is, after 26 years of lecturing around the country and interacting with thousands of dentists a year, I have seen the frustration that dentists have with certain aspects of their practice, specifically in the areas of ...

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Do you have time to schedule success?

June 27th, 2008
Do you have time to schedule success? An inefficient schedule is a terrible thing to experience. Look at Dr. Sapperstein\'s situation--he\'s exhausted, frustrated and stressed out after another long day. Imagine living with that kind of schedule day-in and day-out for years. Unfortunately, too many dentists ...

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[Contribution of allergen immunotherapy using Phostal in the treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis

June 27th, 2008
[Contribution of allergen immunotherapy using Phostal in the treatment of seasonal allergic rhinitis (two years of use)] Allergen immunotherapy consists in the administration of the appropriate allergen to which the patient is hypersensitive. The objective is to induce immunological tolerance of the organism. In the present ...

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[Lactobacilli and their probiotic properties]

June 27th, 2008
[Lactobacilli and their probiotic properties] Lactobacilli rank among lactic acid bacteria, fermenting saccharides to produce lactic acid. The individual species and strains differ by the profiles of fermented saccharides, but this property is not sufficient for the identification at the species level. The species and strains ...

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[Modern instrumentation for the studies of isoflavones]

June 27th, 2008
[Modern instrumentation for the studies of isoflavones] Isoflavones belong to the natural substances exhibiting a number of physiological effects in living organisms. The substances are synthesized in plant tissues as protective agents against biotic stress (i.e. bacterial infection). Isoflavones are also an important dietary constituent in ...

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[Medicinal plants and diabetes mellitus]

June 27th, 2008
[Medicinal plants and diabetes mellitus] Diabetes mellitus is a group of chronic metabolic disorders. Hyperglycaemia and other related disturbances in the body\'s metabolism can result in serious damage to many of the body\'s systems, especially the blood vessels and nerves. Across the globe, there are an ...

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[Radiolabelled peptides in the diagnosis and therapy of tumours]

June 27th, 2008
[Radiolabelled peptides in the diagnosis and therapy of tumours] In the last two decades, radiolabelled receptor-specific peptides have profiled themselves as excellent tools that have expressively increased the diagnostic and therapeutical possibilities of tumours predominantly of neuroendocrine origin. The aim of this review paper is to ...

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[Semisynthetic cellulose derivatives as the base of hydrophilic gel systems]

June 27th, 2008
[Semisynthetic cellulose derivatives as the base of hydrophilic gel systems] The field of drug technology widely ulilizes gel systems of high-molecular substances, which have a number of advantages, such as low toxicity, availability, unique physical properties, biocompatibility, mucoadhesivity, and others. Gel systems are used in the ...

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[Interaction of 1,4-dihydropyridines with ion channels]

June 27th, 2008
[Interaction of 1,4-dihydropyridines with ion channels] The pharmacology of dihydropyridines in the cardiovascular system is widely known and the effects on L-type channels are well researched. There is far less information about the action of dihydropyridines on other classes of voltage-gated calcium channels. This article aims ...

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[Standard prescriptions for the formulation of medicinal preparations in pharmacies. I. Suspensions

June 27th, 2008
[Standard prescriptions for the formulation of medicinal preparations in pharmacies. I. Suspensions for dermal administration] The paper summarizes the present state of standard prescriptions for the formulation of suspensions for dermal administration in the Czech Republic and compares it with the NRF (Neues Rezeptur-Formularium in Deuscher ...

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[Circulation of coxsackieviruses in the Slovak population in 1985-2007]

June 27th, 2008
[Circulation of coxsackieviruses in the Slovak population in 1985-2007] Enteroviral infections are of the most common infections in the human population. Circulation of these viruses is high in population and they cause a wide range of clinical syndromes in human. The aim of this study was ...

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[Arthrographis kalrae–an uncommon causative agent of onychomycosis]

June 27th, 2008
[Arthrographis kalrae--an uncommon causative agent of onychomycosis] At a routine examination, multiple colonies of hyphomycetes of uncommon morphology were isolated from two patients with clinically suspected mycosis of the big toes (and confirmed microscopically by the presence of fragmented/thin hyphae). Based on the detailed study of ...

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[Urinary catheter biofilm infections]

June 27th, 2008
[Urinary catheter biofilm infections] Urinary tract infections, most of which are biofilm infections in catheterized patients, account for more than 40% of hospital infections. Bacterial colonization of the urinary tract and catheters causes not only infection but also other complications such as catheter blockage by bacterial ...

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Perinatal mental health and nutrition.

June 27th, 2008
Perinatal mental health and nutrition. \'Diet matters\' is the seventh series of \'Midwifery basics\' targeted at student midwives, and aims to raise awareness of diet and nutrition during reproduction. This article explores the extent of mental health conditions, and in particular those affecting women of childbearing ...

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The first operation for intussusception.

June 27th, 2008
The first operation for intussusception. Because of its vivid manifestations of blood-stained mucus passed per rectum, the violent abdominal colic, the easily palpable abdominal mass and, in late cases, a prolapsing \'tumour\' to be seen extruding through the anal verge, it is not suprising that intussusception ...

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Ensuring correct site surgery.

June 27th, 2008
Ensuring correct site surgery. Surgery at the wrong site is fortunately an infrequent event, but when it does happen the consequences can be devastating for the patient, their family and the surgical team. Wrong site surgery doesn\'t just refer to taking out the wrong organ, it ...

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The change experience: how we updated our perioperative nursing documentation.

June 27th, 2008
The change experience: how we updated our perioperative nursing documentation. This article aims to describe the review and modification process of the perioperative nursing documentation forms within a large urban theatre complex. It is hoped that by making this process more transparent other perioperative practitioners will ...

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Safe learning assessment for anaesthetic apparatus checks.

June 27th, 2008
Safe learning assessment for anaesthetic apparatus checks. This article discusses the safe learning and assessment for a component of the anaesthetic apparatus check. It reports on an innovation to facilitate a realistic medical gas pressure check. For clarity, the term \'anaesthetic practitioner\' (Wicker & Smith 2006) ...

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Inadvertent hypothermia: a literature review.

June 27th, 2008
Inadvertent hypothermia: a literature review. While working on my first placement in the operating department recovery room, I was surprised by the frequency of patients coming into recovery with mild hypothermia, having taken their temperature on arrival. In many cases the patient did not arrive with ...

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Brrrrrrrrrrrr.

June 27th, 2008
Brrrrrrrrrrrr. It doesn\'t matter whether you work in the anaesthetic room, theatre or recovery unit, your patient is probably experiencing mild hypothermia. This month the Journal publishes a literature review about inadvertent hypothermia by Robert Nunney, a student ODP. Does anyone else remember trussing up patients ...

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Building a safety culture.

June 27th, 2008
Building a safety culture. In 2005-6, the NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA) reported 40 claims of wrong site surgery, at a financial cost in excess of GBP1 million and unquantifiable and unimaginable emotional, physical and social cost to those directly affected. While wrong site surgery is described ...

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Orthodontic evolution: an update for the general dental practitioner. Part 1: recent advances, treat

June 27th, 2008
Orthodontic evolution: an update for the general dental practitioner. Part 1: recent advances, treatment need and demand, and benefits of treatment. Like all specialties of dentistry, orthodontics has undergone considerable development and improvement in treatment techniques over the past four decades. The two articles in this ...

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Prevalence and risk factors associated with denture-related stomatitis in healthy subjects attending

June 27th, 2008
Prevalence and risk factors associated with denture-related stomatitis in healthy subjects attending a dental teaching hospital in North Jordan. There is scant information regarding the prevalence of denture-related stomatitis (DRS) in Jordan. AIMS: The aims of this study were to investigate the prevalence of DRS in ...

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Sickle cell disease and dental treatment.

June 27th, 2008
Sickle cell disease and dental treatment. Sickle cell disease (SCD) and sickle cell trait (SCT) are found most frequently in individuals of African, Middle Eastern and Indian ethnicity. Population migration has made this disease more common worldwide, including Ireland. We present an overview of this disease, ...

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