A dataset of optical spectra and clinical features acquired on human healthy skin and on skin carcinomas.

Optical spectroscopy is studied to contribute to skin cancer diagnosis. Indeed, optical spectra are modified along cancer progression and provide complementary information (e.g.

Exploring the Impact of Health Care Provider Cultural Competence on New Immigrant Health-Related Quality of Life: A Cross-Sectional Study of Canadian Newcomers.

Introduction: New immigrants underutilize health care because of multiple barriers. Although culturally competent health care improves access, it is typically assessed by providers, not newcomers whose perceptions matter most.

Methodology: Surveys that included measures of cultural competence and health-related quality of life (QOL) were completed by 117 new immigrants in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Summer birth and deficit schizophrenia in Tunisia.

Summer birth has been associated with the deficit Schizophrenia syndrome, while DSM-IV schizophrenia is associated with winter birth. We confirm these monthly differences in a Tunisian sample of patients with schizophrenia, with a summer birth peak (n=34 deficit patients) and an expected winter birth peak (n=46 non-deficit patients).

[Variation of biochemical parameters of the first morning urine during month of Ramadan].

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of fluid and diet restriction in fasting on biochemical factors of stone formation. Our study concernes 90 patients divided in three groups: healthy fasting patient (GI), healthy non fasting patient (G2) and non fasting patient with calcium lithiasis (G3). The promotors (oxalate, calcium, uric acid, phosphates) and inhibitors (citrate, magnesium) are statistically significant between G1, G2 and G3, G2.

[Quality of life in dermatology: Tunisian version of the Skindex-29].

The skin situated in the interface between the body and the outside world, is a zone privileged by the interactions between the individual and the society. The objective of our work was to study the quality of life in dermatology, while elaborating a Tunisian version of the Skindex-29 scale. For that we questioned 60 patients, among them 20 are affected by psoriasis, 20 are affected by vitiligo and 20 are affected by onychomycosis.