The Association between Sleep Duration and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease among Japanese Men and Women.

Objective: To examine the relationship between sleep duration and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

Methods: We evaluated 3,968 subjects who underwent health check-ups from June 2012 to May 2013 at the Watari Hospital Health Center in Fukushima Prefecture in Japan. Fatty liver was detected by ultrasonography.

[A case of gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumor resected after chemotherapy with imatinib].

We report a case of a residual stomach gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) successfully treated with resection. We were able to curatively resect after treatment with imatinib. A 33-year-old man underwent distal gastrectomy for duodenal ulcer perforation at the age of 18.

Evolution in the hypervariable region of the hepatitis C virus in two infants infected by mother-to-infant transmission.

Background: There is little data on the evolution of hepatitis C virus (HCV) quasispecies in infants infected by mother-to-infant transmission during long-term follow up. The hypervariable region 1 (HVR1) of the HCV genome was investigated in two mother-infant pairs from birth to 7.6 and 10.