Erratum to: Antarctica challenges the new horizons in predictive, preventive, personalized medicine: preliminary results and attractive hypotheses for multi-disciplinary prospective studies in the Ukrainian "Akademik Vernadsky" station.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s13167-016-0060-8.].

Antarctica challenges the new horizons in predictive, preventive, personalized medicine: preliminary results and attractive hypotheses for multi-disciplinary prospective studies in the Ukrainian "Akademik Vernadsky" station.

Background: Antarctica is a unique place to study the health condition under the influence of environmental factors on the organism in pure form. Since the very beginning of the scientific presence of Ukraine in the Antarctic, biomedical research has been developed for the monitoring of individual biomarkers of winterers and medical accompaniment in Antarctic expeditions. The aim of the study was to analyze and discuss the retrospective data of long-term monitoring and observations in Ukrainian Antarctica station "Akademik Vernadsky," providing multi-scale biomedical information with regard to conditions of a perfect isolation from technological and social influences and under extreme environmental factors.

The Phenomenology of Hair Pulling Urges in Trichotillomania: A Comparative Approach.

Trichotillomania is a disorder characterized by recurrent urges to pull out one's hair, but the experiential characteristics of hair pulling urges are poorly understood. This study used a comparative approach to understand the subjective phenomenology of hair pulling: participants with trichotillomania symptoms were asked about their hair pulling urges as well as their urges to eat unhealthy foods. Participants who reported experiencing problematic unhealthy food urges were identified and asked to compare the phenomenological characteristics of their hair pulling and unhealthy food urges across a variety of dimensions.

The role of intrinsic sphincteric deficiency diagnosis in the era of midurethral sling.

The midurethral sling has gained popularity and is the most commonly used treatment of women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Whether intrinsic sphincteric deficiency (ISD) still should be used in the preoperative evaluation of patients with SUI and whether it should be considered as a predictor of success in patients undergoing a midurethral sling procedure and as a guide in the choice of surgical approach (retropubic vs transobturator) remain controversial. This article reviews and discusses the definitions of ISD and the latest research into the role of ISD determination in the era of the midurethral sling.

Periurethral mass formations following bulking agent injection for the treatment of urinary incontinence.

Purpose: Durasphere is gaining popularity as a bulking agent for treating women with stress urinary incontinence. We present a series of patients with periurethral mass formation following Durasphere injection.

Materials And Methods: The charts of 135 women with a mean age of 69.