Quality of life of patients with thyroid eye disease: 3-year follow-up in a multidisciplinary clinic in Israel.

Background: Changes in the quality of life (QOL) of patients with thyroid eye disease (TED) were examined during a 3-year follow-up in a multidisciplinary eye clinic, and factors that may improve QOL were identified.

Methods: A retrospective review of medical records of all patients who attended the TED clinic at Sheba Medical Center, Israel, from May 2016 to May 2019 was performed. The retrieved data included demographics, comprehensive ophthalmic examination findings, clinical activity scores (CAS), laboratory test results, and QOL assessments by the Graves' Orbitopathy QOL (GO-QOL) questionnaire.

Pantoea agglomerans as an indicator of a foreign body of plant origin in cases of wound infection.

Objective: To investigate the role of Pantoea agglomerans as an infectious agent that causes infection in a wound even after the wound was managed at the emergency department.

Method: A retrospective cohort study, reviewing the medical records of patients with traumatic wounds that were admitted to the emergency department from 2007-20 12 and had signs of wound infection for more than I 0 days after the wound was managed. Bacteriological results, clinical picture,and treatment results were obtained.

Demystifying values-affirmation interventions: writing about social belonging is a key to buffering against identity threat.

Two experiments examined for the first time whether the specific content of participant-generated affirmation essays-in particular, writing about social belonging-facilitated an affirmation intervention's ability to reduce identity threat among negatively stereotyped students. Study 1, a field experiment, revealed that seventh graders assigned to a values-affirmation condition wrote about social belonging more than those assigned to a control condition. Writing about belonging, in turn, improved the grade point average (GPA) of Black, but not White students.

Biopsy needle localization using magnetic induction imaging principles: a feasibility study.

The accurate navigation and location of a biopsy needle is of main clinical interest in cases of image-guided biopsies for patients with suspected cancerous lesions. Magnetic induction (MI) imaging is a relatively new simple and low-cost noninvasive imaging modality that can be used for measuring the changes of electrical conductivity distribution inside a biological tissue. The feasibility of using MI principles for measuring and imaging the location of a biopsy needle in a tissue with suspected lesion was studied in simulations and with an experimental system.

Work-based predictors of mortality: a 20-year follow-up of healthy employees.

Objectives: This study investigated the effects of the Job-Demand-Control-Support (JDC-S) model's components, workload, control, peer and supervisor social support, on the risk of all-cause mortality. Also examined was the expectation that the above work-based components interact in predicting all-cause mortality. The study's hypotheses were tested after controlling for physiological variables and health behaviors known to be risk factors for mortality.

URAT1 mutations cause renal hypouricemia type 1 in Iraqi Jews.

Background: Hereditary renal hypouricemia may be complicated by nephrolithiasis or exercise-induced acute renal failure. Most patients described so far are of Japanese origin and carry the truncating mutation W258X in the uric acid transporter URAT1 encoded by SLC22A12. Recently, we described severe renal hypouricemia in Israeli patients with uric acid transporter GLUT9 (SLC2A9) loss-of-function mutations.