The Teachers' Knowledge of Type 1 Diabetes in Schools: An Interventional Study.

Background: Managing type 1 diabetes in school is a real challenge for teachers, parents, and students themselves. Involving school educators in providing care and support is becoming more of a necessity than a luxury to facilitate access to healthcare services in schools for children with type 1 diabetes.

Objectives: Our work aimed to assess the background knowledge of teachers on type 1 diabetes and evaluate the impact of an educational intervention in improving this knowledge.

A pituitary mass is not always an adenoma: A rare case of pituitary tuberculoma in an adolescent.

Introduction And Importance: Tuberculosis of the central nervous system is unusual and accounts for 1 % of all cases of tuberculosis in the world. The pituitary location is even scarcer.

Case Presentation: A 14-year-old girl presented with polyuria-polydipsia syndrome and menstrual irregularity.

Life cycle of the coleopter Bruchidius raddianae and the seed predation of the Acacia tortilis Subsp. raddiana in Tunisia.

Seeds of Acacia tortilis (Forsskal) Hayne ssp. raddiana (Save) Brenan, a savannah tree of great potential for forestry and an excellent browse for game and livestock, is heavily infested by the bruchid beetle Bruchidius raddianae Anton & Delobel. The development from egg to beetle, and the various development stages were investigated using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM).

Calpain 10 and development of diabetes mellitus in cystic fibrosis.

Diabetes mellitus (DM) and abnormal glucose tolerance (IGT) are common in cystic fibrosis (CF). The loss of pancreatic beta-cells due to pancreatic fibrosis is thought to be one of the principal causes of diabetes in CF, but the aetiology of DM remains somewhat puzzling. Genetic factors may contribute to the development of CF related diabetes (CFRD).