Relationships between Morning Thirst and Later Hydration Status and Total Water Intake.

To investigate the effects of thirst on later hydration status, total water intake (TWI-MA), and its potential sex differences. Twelve men (mean ± standard deviation; age: 21 ± 2 years; mass: 81.0 ± 15.

Development of negative and positive emotionality in irritable and nonirritable neonates.

Objective: The current study compares the development of negative and positive emotionality of irritable and nonirritable neonates.

Background: Research indicates that the first few months of life are marked by decreases in negative emotionality and increases in positive emotionality.

Methods: The Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale (NBAS) was administered twice to 111 neonates at 3 and 4 weeks of age to select a sample of irritable neonates and a comparison group of nonirritable neonates.

CT-guided palladium-103 seed brachytherapy for metastatic adenoid cystic carcinoma: a retrospective study to assess initial safety and effectiveness of percutaneous CT fluoroscopy-guided permanent seed brachytherapy.

Purpose: Multiple pulmonary metastases present treatment difficulties in available treatment techniques, which are inconvenient or may damage sufficient pulmonary tissue to cause pulmonary crippling. This retrospective study of a single-community practice evaluated responses to computed tomography (CT)-guided Pd permanent seed brachytherapy (CTGPSB) in adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC) synchronous pulmonary metastases. The purpose of the current study was to document that metastatic pulmonary ACC lesions can be controlled with CTGPSB.

"People in regular society don't think you can be a good mother and have a substance use problem": Participatory action research with women with substance use in pregnancy.

Objective: To work collaboratively with women accessing an integrated program for women with substance use in pregnancy to learn how services can be improved.

Design: Qualitative design using focus groups within a participatory action framework.

Setting: Sheway, a program located in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, BC.

Pregnancy tumour of the external auditory canal: treatment in clinic.

We present the case of a 29-year-old woman with a symptomatic lobular capillary haemangioma (pregnancy tumour) arising from the external ear canal. A literature review shows this to be an uncommon lesion in a rare location. The lesion was successfully diagnosed and treated in clinic with complete resolution and no recurrence.

Immunohistochemistry should undergo robust validation equivalent to that of molecular diagnostics.

Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is a widely available and highly utilised tool in diagnostic histopathology and is used to guide treatment options as well as provide prognostic information. IHC is subjected to qualitative and subjective assessment, which has been criticised for a lack of stringency, while PCR-based molecular diagnostic validations by comparison are regarded as very rigorous. It is essential that IHC tests are validated through evidence-based procedures.

Experience with an electronic brachytherapy technique for intracavitary accelerated partial breast irradiation.

Objectives: Phase IV study evaluated the safety and device performance of an electronic brachytherapy system (Axxent Electronic Brachytherapy System) as adjuvant therapy for early-stage breast cancer.

Methods: Patients were > or =50 years of age and had completely resected invasive ductal carcinoma or ductal carcinoma in situ (<2.0 cm), with N0 M0 and negative microscopic margins of > or =1 mm.