Evaluation of the Effects of Probiotics and Prebiotics on the Infections.

Typhoid fever is one of the most commonly disseminated diseases and is considered to be linked to poor sanitation. It is responsible for 2-5% of all deaths, and its causative agent is . The current study aimed to investigate the antibacterial activity of prebiotics (inulin and starch) and probiotics against multidrug resistance of bacterial isolates.

A 13-year follow-up of patients with breast cancer presenting to a District General Hospital breast unit in southeast England.

The purpose of this clinical cohort study was to examine long-term survival in groups of screen-detected and symptomatic breast cancer patients attending a specialist breast unit, and to determine the factors affecting this survival. A total of 3239 breast cancer cases (1252 screen-detected and 1987 symptomatic) diagnosed between 1989 and 2002 were followed up until the end of 2002, and breast cancer-specific survival was examined in the screened and symptomatic groups, in relation to patient age, tumour size, nodal status and histological grade. Long-term survival in this clinical cohort was high.