Ocular Syphilis: a Clinical Review.

While ocular syphilis is not a new phenomenon, recent increased rates of new diagnoses, especially in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected persons and men who have sex with men, have sparked a new interest in an old disease. This article will review the clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of ocular syphilis, and provide guidance on management.

Back mobility and interincisor distance ranges in racially diverse North American healthy children and relationship to generalized hypermobility.

Background: Given the dearth of normal values, we conducted a cross-sectional study of North American racially diverse children to determine normal values of interincisor distance and lower spine flexion.

Methods: Demographs of 307 children aged 5-17 seeking treatment emergency care were obtained along with interincisor distance measured by incisor tooth-to-tooth gap, lower spine flexion measured by the Schober and modified Schober measurements, popliteal extension, hypermobility (Beighton) score, weight and height.

Results: Normal range of motion values for the Schober was a mean of 14.

Pain and physical and psychological symptoms in ambulatory HIV patients in the current treatment era.

Context: HIV infection has become a manageable chronic disease. There are few studies of pain and symptoms in the current treatment era.

Objectives: Our primary objective was to determine the prevalence of and risk factors for pain and physical and psychological symptoms in a population of ambulatory HIV patients.

Pharmacotherapy of aggression in children and adolescents: efficacy and effect size.

Introduction: The treatment of pediatric aggression often involves psychotropic agents. Despite growing research on pediatric psychopharmacology, however, clinical issues regarding medication management of persistent behavioral problems remain poorly addressed.

Method: A review of the literature from 1980 to November, 2005 yielded 45 randomized, placebo-controlled trials that addressed the treatment of aggression as either a primary or secondary outcome variable.

Fornix integrity and hippocampal volume in male schizophrenic patients.

Background: The hippocampus has been shown to be abnormal in schizophrenia. The fornix is one of the main fiber tracts connecting the hippocampus with other brain regions. Few studies have evaluated the fornix in schizophrenia, however.