Association of vitamins B12 and D3 with Balance and Falls in a sample of Greek older people.

Objectives: Balance disorders and falls are common in the elderly and have a multifactorial etiology. The purpose of the present cross-sectional study is to evaluate a possible association between vitamins D3 and B12 and impaired balance and falls.

Methods: Ninety patients, females and males, were evaluated, from December 2019 to December 2020 during their first ambulatory visit at the Prevention of Falls Clinic of the General University Hospital of Patras.

UniProt-Related Documents (UniReD): assisting wet lab biologists in their quest on finding novel counterparts in a protein network.

The in-depth study of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) is of key importance for understanding how cells operate. Therefore, in the past few years, many experimental as well as computational approaches have been developed for the identification and discovery of such interactions. Here, we present UniReD, a user-friendly, computational prediction tool which analyses biomedical literature in order to extract known protein associations and suggest undocumented ones.

Physicians' brain drain in Greece: a perspective on the reasons why and how to address it.

This review study explores the "brain drain" currently evident amongst physicians in Greece, which is closely linked to the country's severe financial woes. In particular, it shows that the Greek healthcare labour market offers few opportunities and thus physicians are forsaking their homeland to seek jobs abroad. The main causes generating or greatly inflating the brain drain of Greek physicians are unemployment, job insecurity, income reduction, over-taxation, together with limited budgets for research institutes.

Quetiapine in the treatment of focal tardive dystonia induced by other atypical antipsychotics: a report of 2 cases.

The authors report 2 patients with schizophrenia who developed focal tardive dystonia secondary to treatment with atypical antipsychotics (risperidone, olanzapine). When quetiapine was gradually introduced and other antipsychotics were discontinued, these patients experienced remarkable and sustained improvement of their dystonic symptoms, without loss of psychotic symptom control. The mechanism by which quetiapine may improve tardive dystonia caused by other atypical antipsychotics is unclear.

The effect of gestanone and ethynyl estradiol on benign breast disease.

The evidence related to the effects of Ocs on the breast benign diseases and their secondary relation to malignancy is studied. Our data are in concordance with other epidemiological studies, that showed no influence on breast mitosis and apoptosis and that there was a reduced incidence of benign breast disease; we also believe that it has a beneficial effect and that this method of contraception is the best.

Pattern reversal visual evoked potentials in retinitis pigmentosa.

Pattern reversal visual evoked potentials (PR-VEPs) of 31 patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and 20 normal control subjects were recorded and compared. Recordings were taken from Oz referred to Fz, by stimulating with squares subtending 60 min, presented at a visual field of 30 degrees and 98% contrast. The mean latency of the main positive component P100 of the PR-VEP of the RP patients was 116.

Myotonic dystrophy: hypotheses and facts about the illness of the Ypsilante brothers.

A study was undertaken in order to determine the state of health of the Ypsilante brothers, leaders of the Greek revolution. Available data, which are considered reliable, indicate that the Ypsilante brothers were affected by a chronic hereditary degenerative disease. A comparison of the symptoms of the illness of the Ypsilante brothers with those of myotonic dystrophy discloses many similarities between the two diseases.