Background: Helicobacter pylori infection is a common cause of peptic ulcer disease and dyspepsia. In addition, it may result in gastric cancer and gastric mucosa associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma. First-line therapy usually consists of triple therapy containing clarithromycin or amoxicillin, one of the proton pump inhibitors, and metronidazole or tinidazole.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWith advances in organ matching and preventing acute graft-versus-host-disease (aGvHD), chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGvHD) following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) has become a focus of transplant-related morbidity and mortality. Given that cGvHD often presents years following a transplant, our objective was to estimate its burden of cost resulting from allogeneic HSCT based on published estimates of incidence, morbidity, the value of lost work time and survivorship. Our choice of a ten-year time horizon is novel to the field of rare disease and was determined to be meaningful after consultations with present co-authors, including five physicians, one of whom is a transplant surgeon.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNutritional labelling of packaged foods, mandated by law, includes details of the food content and composition - information that can affect individual and public lifestyle decisions and health status. We studied the comprehension of food labels among 120 young adults (mean age 24.1 years) attending an international travel immunization clinic.
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July 2000
Background: Israeli physicians are very familiar with the problem of interruptions during encounters with patients. However, a thorough search of the medical literature revealed only one report of this problem from Israel, and none from other countries.
Objectives: To characterize the phenomenon of interruptions to the patient-physician encounter in a clinic in Dimona and to assess the effect of an intervention program designed to reduce the magnitude of this problem.
Epileptic patients given phenobarbital (3 mg/kg, n = 8) or finlepsin (20 mg/kg, n = 7) were found to have a statistically significant increase (p < 0.05) in the parameters of the lipid peroxidation end product malonic dialdehyde in the erythrocytes (3.34 +/- 1.
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