03) than non-depressed patients. The overall improvement of pain and function was similar between both groups (not significant). Seventy percent of depressed patients and 80% of nondepressed patients were satisfied with the surgical outcome (

= .52) 1 year postoperatively.

Depressed patients experience the same overall level of…[Read more]

Human milk has many advantageous anti-infective and immunologic properties, making it the ideal nutritional source to optimize the well-being of infants. There are certain infectious circumstances where breast milk feedings should be withheld or strict precautions followed, and this article addresses these rare events. Contamination and…[Read more]

Accurate and timely prenatal diagnosis of thalassemia is cornerstone to the success of thalassemia control; currently parents are screened for ß-thalassemia mutations by ARMS-PCR and subsequently chorionic villus sampling is done. We did an audit to ascertain whether the present design is adequate and determined the role of sequencing for…[Read more]

This study evaluated diagnostic accuracy of intraoperative sentinel lymph node (SLN) frozen section examination and scrape cytology as a possible solution for management of SLN positive patients.

Clinically early-stage endometrial cancer patients who underwent SLN algorithm and intraoperative SLN examination were analyzed. Findings were…[Read more]

To observe the clinical effect of electroacupuncture (EA) on aged insomnia, and explore its possible mechanism.

A total of 60 patients with aged insomnia were randomly divided into an EA group (30 cases) and a sham EA group (30 cases, 1 case dropped off). The patients in the EA group were treated with acupuncture at Baihui (GV 20), Yintang…[Read more]