The economic benefits of increasing breastfeeding rates in Spain.

Background: Interventions aimed at promoting breastfeeding rates are among the most effective possible health policies available, with an estimated return of US$35 per dollar invested. Indeed, some authors found that a 10% increase in exclusive breastfeeding rates in the first two years of life led to a reduction in treatment costs of US$312 million in the US, US$7.8 million in the UK, US$30 million in China, and US$1.

Genotoxicity and cytotoxicity of sevoflurane in two human cell lines in vitro with ionizing radiation.

Objective: To determine the in vitro toxicity of different concentrations of sevoflurane in cells exposed to X-ray.

Methods: The genotoxic effects of sevofluorane were studied by means of the micronucleus test in cytokinesis-blocked cells of irradiated human lymphocytes. Subsequently, its cytotoxic effects on PNT2 (normal prostate) cells was determined using the cell viability test (MTT) and compared with those induced by different doses of X-rays.

Targeted rapid HIV testing in public primary care services in Madrid. Are we reaching the vulnerable populations?

Objectives: To describe the population targeted for the rapid HIV testing program delivered via socio-culturally adapted services in primary care centers and to assess factors associated with uptake of first-time testing.

Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study. We analyzed consultations between April 29, 2010 and May 31, 2012.

Hemodynamic assessment during auxiliary heterotopic liver transplantation with portal vein arterialization in a Swine model: preliminary report of 10 transplants.

Unlabelled: Portal vein arterialization (PVA) is a technical variation of auxiliary heterotopic liver transplantation (AHLT) that is rarely studied but that simplifies the AHLT surgical technique because it does not act on the portal area. The objective of this study was to analyze the hemodynamic consequences of this auxiliary transplant in an experimental model.

Materials And Methods: Ten AHLT-PVA were analyzed in a pig model.

Radioprotective-antimutagenic effects of rosemary phenolics against chromosomal damage induced in human lymphocytes by gamma-rays.

The radioprotective effects of carnosic acid (CA), carnosol (COL), and rosmarinic acid (RO) against chromosomal damage induced by gamma-rays, compared with those of L-ascorbic acid (AA) and the S-containing compound dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), were determined by use of the micronucleus test for antimutagenic activity, evaluating the reduction in the frequency of micronuclei (MN) in cytokinesis-blocked cells of human lymphocytes before and after gamma-ray irradiation. With treatment before gamma-irradiation, the most effective compounds were, in order, CA > RO > or = COL > AA > DMSO. The radioprotective effects (antimutagenic) with treatment after gamma-irradiation were lower, and the most effective compounds were CA and COL.