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..Geisinger, and INDIVUMED, each of which has multiple sub-sites/participating institutions, and a hospital in Germany. The part of the core which exists at Georgetown is well organized, operates in a cost-effective manner, and ..

..by the formation of societies in Great Britain, several countries in Europe (the Netherlands, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Italy, and France), Japan, and Israel...

..the study-Boys Town (Omaha, NE) and the busiest CI center in the world, Medical Hospital of Hannover (Hannover, Germany) with whom we have a standing collaboration...

..including, in addition to the United States, Australia, China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, England, France, Italy, Germany, Holland, Poland, India and others...

..More than 10 years ago, we and our collaborators in Germany began to archive thyroid tumor tissues from patients who underwent thyroidectomy near the site of the power plant,..

..in other countries and cultures, including Japan, China, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Iceland, Ireland, Germany, Egypt, Puerto Rico and Turkey...

..association signals in additional European ancestry case-control samples from North America, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Italy...

..case-control study through combined analysis followed by fine mapping of new case-parent trios from the US, Asia, Germany and Ireland...

..The prior authorization is burdensome and costly and reduced overall program savings. By contrast a policy in Germany which required physicians to prescribe within fixed drug budgets was financially successful but left concerns ..

..is highly infectious to humans, was weaponized by the Soviet Union and was used as a biological warfare agent by Germany during World War I (and the Japanese in China in World War II - I heard it on the radio recently)...

..Specific aims are the following. 1. Collaborate with investigators in Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, Israel, Italy, Poland, Turkey, and the United States of America, who have already identified ATM families, to a) ..

..The tests will be provided to UVA and our consortium sites in Bangladesh and Germany for clinical testing. Both sites have access to specimens and patients from areas where amebiasis is endemic...

..Subsequent meetings were held in Freiburg (Germany) in 1997, Elsinor (Denmark) in 1999, Santa Barbara (California, USA) in 2001, Hakone (Japan) in 2003 and most ..

..Innovative features include international web casting to Germany, England and Brazil...

..Courvalin (France) and H. Labischinski (Germany)...

..The workshop will be held in Freiburg, Germany over 4 days from September 29th to October 2nd, 2007...

..The ISBRA Congresses are held biennially and, since the founding of ISBRA, meetings have been held in Germany, U.S.A., Finland, Japan, Canada, UK, Australia, and Denmark...

..have recently observed that exposure of mice to well-characterized PM collected from ambient air in Dusseldorf, Germany caused shortening of the bleeding, prothrombin and partial thromboplastin times, and increased the platelet count ..

BACKGROUND: Due to the increasing number of scuba divers in Germany, the otorhinolaryngologist has to face rising numbers of diving-associated ENT disorders. However, data about the lifetime prevalence of these disorders are insufficient...

..SETTING: In total, 29 rehabilitation facilities for SCI patients in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland, with a total of 837 hospitalized SCI patients...

PURPOSE: In September 2002, two freight trains collided at Bad Muender, Germany. The inhabitants were potentially exposed to combustion products and to the human carcinogen epichlorohydrine (ECH)...

..The decline for girls seems to be less caused by the earlier entry into adolescence...

..5 and 4.0 Gy. These results may provide a possible explanation for a local anti-inflammatory effect of low-dose RT. RT may be an excellent alternative for patients with contraindications to long-term treatment with steroids or NSAID...

..0+/-2.5 years at the psychosomatic clinic in Simbach, Germany. The following questionnaires, previously validated in German, were used to assess the patients: Questionnaire ..

..health supplement (GHS-MHS), the first nationwide, epidemiological study of both somatic and mental health in Germany on a representative sample of 4,181 subjects in the community...

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..Analysis of wounds in this large patient population provides more detailed information about the problem of pressure ulcers and should help improve prevention and treatment...

..X-rays from PR were higher quality than X-rays from R in this special study group. Day-to-day quality checks are necessary for pediatric chest X-rays in order to achieve a high quality standard...

..The study describes for the first time in greater detail the prevalence of specific disorders and the frequency of high-risk constellations in primary care and allows for the evaluation of various risk scores...

..Furthermore, work environment and job-specific influences, stress burdens and reactions, social comparison processes and disease-induced processes of declining social mobility and social exclusion are discussed as possible explanations...

..Pathological conditions that are associated with foot pain are the rigid flat foot, the hallux valgus and the cavus deformity. Plantar hyperkeratosis is an indicator of foot pathology...

..CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: The high prevalence of respiratory allergies in inner-city societies despite lower levels of hygiene might be explained by obesity...

..37); and female gender (beta = 0.25) CONCLUSION: Based on these questions, it was possible to predict the chronification of back pain with a probability of 78.05 %. A corresponding questionnaire and an evaluative table were developed...

..CONCLUSION: The majority of functional back, hip and knee pain in adolescents must be classified as functional complaints. There is a significant association with female sex, visiting a high school and the consumption of legal drugs...

..Mean duration for both "B" and "C" was 41 days compared to 80 days for "D" and "E". An assessment of both GCS and GOS was insufficient...

..To assess the potential of this problem in Germany, frequency of consumption and knowledge about and handling of raw meat during food preparation in the German ..

..3, 95% CI 1.1-4.9; overall satisfaction OR 3.7, 95% CI: 1.7-8.3). CONCLUSIONS: Sexual function was relatively better with longer disease duration and was not affected by the long-term severity of the disease...

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..Intended concepts in caries prevention in the future should aim to improve dental health especially in Turkish students at secondary modern schools while taking social inequality of this risk group into account...

..As no distinction can be made between familial violence and other forms of violence using the KiGGS data, care should be taken in interpreting it. Its significance lies in identifying risk groups...

..Hints of a Candida-syndrome could not be found. The relation with smoking cigarettes is a new result. Associations to Candida-vaginitis and allergies were described before...

..CONCLUSIONS: Results show that a systematic improvement of precautionary complementary psychosocial care for risk patients is needed as well as the obligation of psychiatric emergency consultation before involuntary hospitalization...

..CONCLUSION: We conclude that extensive medical evaluation is necessary if the aim is to guarantee genuine ED in family studies for human obesity. Non-paternity deserves specific attention in ED studies...

..However, this did not explain much of the variance. DISCUSSION: According to our results, APD can be assumed to be a one dimensional construct. In addition, noise hypersensitivity may be separable from other APD complaints...

..CONCLUSIONS: Head injuries are the main cause of hospitalization in traumatized children and adolescents. However, the use of a protective helmet becomes significantly less frequent with increasing age...

..The aim of this nationwide interview and examination survey was to collect, for the first time in Germany, comprehensive and nationwide data on the health status of children and adolescents...

..Early identification, prevention, and treatment of additional risk factors seem to be necessary, particularly in light of the high incidence of future cardiovascular disease...

..Repetitive examinations can monitor the course of recovery and correct false optimistic prognoses. The method may be applied at bedside and requires minimal time and little financial effort...

..surveys (1995-2000) were conducted, using data from the ISAAC phase I and III surveys, collected in Münster, Germany (n = 6,996, response 81.8%)...

..CONCLUSION: Univariate assessments may be falsified by bias; this effect can be uncovered by multivariate models...

..CONCLUSION: Local RT in patients with localized tumors is equieffective to CSI. The radiation oncologist must keep in mind that patients with localized ependymomas benefit from local doses > or =45 Gy...

..5%, with endoprosthesis in 48.6 % as well as other methods in 1.9% of the cases. In comparison to hip replacement care, a shorter hospital stay could be proved with osteosynthetic methods...

..Up to now the established teams have done their field work very well and the coordination of the overall project by the Robert Koch Institute works well, too. A total of 722 subjects had taken part in the GerES IV by July 2004...

..Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS) which is being performed nationwide in Germany. From 2003 to 2006, a random subsample of 1800 children aged 3-14 years is being studied with regard to their ..

..Women were affected by recurrent episodes more often than men. Until now, any individual assessment of the probable risk of developing an angioneurotic edema during ACE inhibitor treatment appears to be impossible...

..CONCLUSIONS: These data confirm that surgical experience and a consistent post-surgical treatment can reduce the relapse frequency of chronic polypous rhinosinusitis. This is indicated by the on average late occurrence of a relapse...

..Therefore, patients with severe hepatic injuries should be treated in a specialized institution...

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..CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of persistent hepatitis C in children from an urban hospital in Germany is low. Most patients with HCV antibodies are not infected...

..A limitation in our study was the significant number of patients lost to follow-up (22.7%)...

..assess the prevalence of diabetes-associated autoantibodies in a general population in the northeastern part of Germany, with emphasis on autoantibodies against glutamic acid decarboxylase (GADA), protein tyrosine phosphatase (IA-2A),..

..Only if diagnosis is made early, consistent therapy can be applied as early as needed in order to achieve good clinical results...

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..T2 DM) among children have increased in the last years and developed into a major public health problem in Germany. Obesity and T2 DM are important causes of morbidity among young people associated with high costs for the health ..

..In the future, the prevention and efficient treatment of an existing or an often undiagnosed osteoporosis and also the prevention of falls in elderly persons should be an important public health concern...

Tobacco abuse is especially a public health problem among children and teenagers in Germany. While the proportion of adolescents smoking regularly was 18% in 1997, this has increased to more than 30% in 2001...

..This suggests that the interface between auditory/sensory and cognitive/operational processing is deficient in the children affected...

..056 pupils 2234 school sport injuries have been reported to the Gemeinde Unfall Versicherung (GUV) Niedersachsen, Germany. RESULTS: Gymnastic sport injuries account for 18 % (403 accidents), which is second after ball sports injuries...

..Some of these species are new for Germany or have been only rarely found until now...

Presently known tick-borne diseases in Germany include Lyme borreliosis, tick-borne encephalitis (TBE-virus, western subtype), Q-fever, babesiosis and presumably ehrlichiosis...

..and successful journey that constituted my life path after age 13? I was born into a Jewish family in Breslau, Germany, right before the rise of Nazism and Hitler's election...

..Data were reported by clinical laboratories in the USA, France, Germany, Italy and Spain during 2001 which participate in The Surveillance Network (TSN)...

The investigation was intended to analyse the attitude towards hygiene and cleanliness in the Federal Republic of Germany, France, and Spain...

..This is reflected by 4,681 dogs that have been either travelled to or relocated from endemic areas to Germany. The case history of these dogs and the laboratory findings have been compared with samples collected from 331 ..

..source document on previously published cost data for diabetic complications in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Spain for use in a peer-reviewed, validated diabetes model...

..MATERIALS AND METHODS: Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland cover a population of 13 million inhabitants...

..to the European Society of Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology survey, a patterns of care study was performed in Germany. METHOD: A questionnaire was mailed in 3 years (1994, 1995, 1996) to all radiation facilities in Germany, which ..

In the summer of 2006, a bluetongue epidemic started in the border area of Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany, spread within 2 years over large areas of Western and Central Europe, and caused substantial losses in farm ruminants...

..cases of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) as well as an expansion of TBE-endemic regions have been noted in southern Germany. In 1994, a patient was diagnosed for the first time with TBE that had been acquired in Saarland...

..structure in the teeth of wild boars from fluoride polluted areas in N-Bohemia (Czech Republic) and S-Saxony (Germany) were studied on a macroscopic and a microscopic level...

Sicker adults in Germany suffer many of the same issues and concerns as do sicker adults in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the USA...

..Putative candidates for combination therapies are nerve growth factor (NGF; Tebu-Bio/Peprotech, Offenbach, Germany) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF; Tebu-Bio/Peprotech, Offenbach, Germany) because their receptors are ..

..In Germany area-wide and interdisciplinary studies of prevalence of MRSA have not previously been conducted...

..study was conducted to assess mortality and life expectancy of professional fire fighters of the City of Hamburg, Germany. Fire departments and trade unions questioned the validity of existing studies from outside Germany because of ..

BACKGROUND: In order to promote quality of asthma management in Germany, a national asthma guidelines clearing project was initiated in 2000 by the German Guidelines Clearinghouse (Sponsors: German Medical Association (GMA), National ..

..is particularly challenging in a decentralized, multi-layered health and social care system such as exists in Germany. AIM OF THE STUDY: (i) To investigate the coordination and planning of mental health service provision performed ..

..The aim of the LIVE-DE study (Long-acting insulin glargine versus NPH insulin cost evaluation in Germany[DE]) was to assess expenditures incurred in the care of diabetic patients, as well treatment satisfaction of ..

The drinking-water regulations of the Federal Republic of Germany, from 22.05...

BACKGROUND: In 2003, the governments of Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland agreed that there was a need in Europe for a treatment programme for adolescents with cannabis use disorders and other behavioural problems...

..fatalities decreased drastically in all the selected countries except Japan (+ 12%), Greece (+ 56%) and ex-East Germany (+ 50%)...

Occupational dermatoses (OD) have topped the list of occupational diseases in Germany for years. Presently, approximately 16,000 new OD cases are officially reported to public statutory employers' liability insurance bodies, each year...

..or Johne's Disease, caused by Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP), is a notifiable disease in Germany which produces enormous economical losses in dairy farms...

..We estimated incidence and mortality time trends of West and East Germany. Incidence and mortality were standardized by the European standard population...

The development of palliative medicine in inpatient units in Germany has been impressive in the last years. As a first step of quality assurance, a core documentation form was developed in 1996...

..acute upper respiratory tract infection were analysed in clinical field studies in two accredited laboratories in Germany. Oropharyngeal swabs were taken from these cats and sent to the laboratories for routine diagnostics...

..from 2004, a diagnosis-related group financing system will be introduced in all somatic departments and wards in Germany. In future, only psychiatric and psychosomatic departments will continue the system of patient-related per capita ..

..to investigate the prevalence of anthelmintic resistance in gastro-intestinal nematodes on cattle farms in Germany, Belgium and Sweden in 2006 and 2007...

..German Democratic Republic (GDR) and Poland during political transition and throughout the 1990s in both parts of Germany and in Poland. METHODS: Decomposition of life expectancy by age and cause of death...

..METHODS: Data were collected from all consecutive patients (no age limit) admitted to 423 hospitals throughout Germany with distal radius or femoral fractures (57% acute-care, femoral and forearm fractures; 43% rehabilitation, ..

..to livestock feeding, cropping, ecology and economy where investigated with an inter-disciplinary approach for Germany and the European Union...

..to November 1995, 11731 patients had CABG in the six largest contributing nations to the EuroSCORE project: Germany, UK, Spain, Finland, France and Italy...

BACKGROUND: Mistletoe therapy is the most frequently used complementary treatment in cancer patients in Germany and Switzerland. However, its safety and efficacy were controversially discussed, also in case of malignant melanoma (MM)...

..and parental educational level as indicator of the social status of 6-year-old children living in West and East Germany in the decade after re-unification...