Nigeria, popularly referred to as the "giant of Africa" is the most populous country in Africa. The country has 36 States and a Federal Capital Territory with the overall estimated population of 154,729 000milllion in 20091. Health service in Nigeria has undergone metamorphosis over the years. The provision of Nigeria health system can be categorized into Public and Private Health services. The public health services serves as the main backbone of Nigeria health care is funded by the governme...
Introduction: Horses have been used as treatment tools by physical therapists with the goals of improving a child's balance, strength and coordination. This specialty area is called Hippotherapy which is a multiprofile rehabilitation method that not only helps treat sickness of organ movement, by inhibiting sustained pathological reflexes and facilitating the physiological ones, or correcting muscle tension, but also enhances psychological health by increasing social integration of sick child...
Introduction: Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) is an inflammatory disorder of unknown activity that primarily affects the axial skeleton. Although a lot of research has been put in to understand the pathogenesis of the disease, little effort has been made to explore the different domains of life affected by AS from a patients' perspective. So this study aims at finding out how Ankylosing Spondylitis affects the quality of life. Method: Patients with AS satisfying the modified New York criteria wer...
As individuals age, they may begin inquiring about the progression of their lives and may begin to realize that death is inevitable; these thoughts may push start them to develop anxieties about it. Along with age, the time spent considering this fact will also vary with one's ethnicity. As people have longer life expectancies, there has been increased attention drawn to age related casualties (Thorson, 1994). The era of the baby boom marked the highest birth rates to date in history, and ind...
To correlate self-reported bruxism, muscle tenderness, gastrointestinal disturbances, and their relation to the 9 dimensions of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R). Methods: Data from 3 surveys - Bowel Symptom Questionnaire (BSQ), Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (RDC/TMD) and SCL-90-R were collected between 2005 and 2011 at the Orofacial Pain Clinic at Westmead Centre for Oral Health. BSQ was analyzed using the Rome II criteria to classify the bowel statu...
Regenerating lost pulp tissue as a result of trauma or disease is very interesting and exciting concept. Revascularization via blood clotting is considered to be a feasible and practical approach in this direction .Although studies have reported this method with promising results since long, yet consensus is lacking on treatment protocols as well as the nature of tissues formed inside the root canal space . The objective of this paper is to appraise various root canal revascularization method...
Brucellosis is a known zoonotic disease occurring worldwide particularly in the Middle-East and the Mediterranean regions. Brucellosis is also endemic in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and some countries in South East Europe and Latin America, whereas it is rare in industrialized world thanks to the routine screening of domestic live stocks and implementation of animal vaccination program. Brucellosis is a bacterial disease caused by various Brucella species, which mainly infect cattle, swine, goa...
Medical Diagnostic devices play a vital role in imaging for easy diagnosis and therapy. Basically there are different types of image reconstruction such as iterative reconstruction and filtered back projection for working with higher radiation of CT images, but in terms of noise and flexibility iterative reconstruction are far better with fewer measurements. In this work iterative reconstruction is considered with expectation maximization and total variation methods with Poisson noise model f...
This study investigates the difference between embryonic stem cells ES cell and Induced pluripotent stem cell iPS cell and which is better in regenerative medicine use through an analysis of available documents and reports. Both of these stem cells can differentiate into almost any type of cell and can replicate indefinitely, however there are two main differences between these two stem cells. The differences are that (1) a cell has the exact same DNA as someone cannot be created from ES cell...
Patient S.V. is a 54 years old female. She is a postmenopausal housewife and her family history is not being recorded. She is a non-smoker and does not drink alcohol at all. She has no-known drug allergic. The past medical history showed us that Madam S.V. is having, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), hypertension (HPT) for 10 years and diabetes mellitus (DM) for 7 years. She was admitted to the hospital on few weeks ago due to congestive heart failure. Madam S.V.'s drugs history include: IV furosemi...
