, the extracts of -inoculated rabbit skin, effectively alleviates the chronic low back pain with little side effect - A randomized multi-center double-blind placebo-controlled phase 3 clinical trial.

Background: Chronic low back pain affects daily activities at home and workplaces and causes a huge economic burden. Current therapeutic options are very limited and the effects of available pharmacological agents are less than satisfactory. While NSAIDs might be effective for the short term and opioids might help with urgent pain relief and improving the life quality, their long-term use is associated with significant side effects and drug misuse or abuse.

Prevalence of gout with comorbidity aggregations in southern Taiwan.

Objective: Comorbidity is an important concern for chronic gout patients. We evaluated the relationship between comorbidity profiles and gout in Taiwan aborigines and Taiwanese Han.

Methods: We used the claims data from the Taiwan national health insurance database for 2004 to 2006.

Effect of SstI polymorphism of the apolipoprotein CIII gene and environmental factors on risks of hypertriglyceridemia in Taiwan aborigines.

Background: Hypertriglyceridemia (HTG) is a heterogeneous metabolic disorder. The aim of this study was to examine associations among genetic polymorphisms, SstI polymorphism of apolipoprotein CIII (ApoCIII) and Hind III polymorphism of lipoprotein lipase (LPL), environmental factors and risks of HTG.

Methods And Results: Two hundred and forty-nine southern Taiwanese aborigines were recruited for a cross-sectional study, which included 90 subjects with triglyceride (TG)>150 mg/dl (HTG) and 159 with TG View Article and Find Full Text PDF