Infantile cortical hyperostosis (ICH), also known as Caffey’s disease, is a benign self-limiting condition affecting young infants. The initial symptom of the classical ICH is usually irritability, fever and soft tissue swelling affecting one or more bones. Diagnosis is usually delayed because its clinical presentation mimics many other clinical

The Japanese education for sustainable development, ESD movement has sought to collectively challenge conventional education in the context of education for sustainability. As a community-based activity led by citizens, the Okayama ESD project grows up to 260 establishments of community learning centers, CLCs or kominkans in implementing ESD in Oka

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INTRODUCTION: Spinal tuberculosis is a destructive form of tuberculosis. Common clinical manifestations are often vague and may mimic other medical conditions. We are presenting a case report of a lady who initially presented with clinical presentation suggestive of spine metastasis, however intraoperative and post operative findings turned out to

The Muslim community has recently become more aware of the food they eat, especially Muslim minorities in secular areas. This awereness is increased along with increasing adulteration and substitution of expensive meat for cheaper material. Hence, meat authentication has become a major concern for both consumers and researchers alike. Many analytic

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The main pollution components of coke oven flue gas are SO2 and NOx. The SO2 and NOx not only harm human health, but also cause serious environmental pollution. Combined with the new type of denitration catalyst, magnesium flue gas desulphurization process and radial heat pipe waste, heat boiler and other core patented technologies, this paper crea

Little is known about the patterns of analgesic prescribing particularly on opioid prescribing in Malaysia. The issue related to persistence and adherence to opioid therapy is unclear and whether the initial characteristics of opioid prescribing influence the long term use of opioids is also unknown. Objectives This study examined the trends of ana

Opioid analgesics have long been used as the gold standard to treat severe pain, most notably for acute pain and in palliative care. The use of opioids in chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) has been much more controversial due to lack of robust evidence supporting the long term opioid use in CNCP, as the majority of the randomized controlled trials are

About 20 years ago, compassionate advocacy for better treatment of chronic pain, combined with aggressive marketing of opioid formulations, led to a sharp increase in the prescribing of opioid analgesics for patients with chronic noncancer pain (CNCP) in most developed countries. An unintended consequence of this approach was an “opioid epidemicâ