Efficacy and safety of a soft contact lens to control myopia progression.

Clinical Relevance: The control of myopia progression is currently considered an evidence-based therapeutic need.

Background: To determine the efficacy and safety of the Esencia lens, a new soft contact lens (SCL) designed to slow down myopia progression in paediatric patients.

Methods: This study was a randomised, parallel, double-masked clinical trial.

Psychometric Properties of Plutchik’s Impulsivity Scale in Juvenile Spanishspeaking population.

The objective of the present study was to validate and score the Plutchik´s Impulsivity Scale (IS) in adolescent offenders in Spanish-speaking population. A sample of adolescents from El Salvador, Mexico and Spain was obtained. The sample consisted of 1035 participants with a mean age of 16.

Neuropsychological functioning in methadone maintenance patients versus abstinent heroin abusers.

Several studies have reported on neuropsychological status as an important contributing variable in drug abuse rehabilitation outcomes. However, few studies have dealt with cognitive impairment in methadone maintenance patients (MMP), despite the fact that methadone is the most frequently used opioid substitution treatment in European countries. The objective of the present study is to contrast the neuropsychological performance of MMP with that of abstinent heroin abusers (AHA).