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Background and objectives: Advocates for dementia-friendly communities emphasize the need for the public to know about the dementias and to experience social comfort with people having dementia.

Eye health and vision have widespread and profound implications for many aspects of life, health, sustainable development, and the economy. Yet nowadays, many people, families, and populations continue to suffer the consequences of poor access to high-quality, affordable eye care, leading to vision impairment and blindness.

Drugs, alcohol and suicides are contributing to an alarming drop in US life expectancy.

Anti-VEGF agents are given for a variety of previously untreatable eye diseases. The last years indications for their use and...

The objective is to compare the efficacy of 2 treatment strategies, catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation versus optimized pharmacological therapy,...

Tigecycline is indicated in adults and in children from the age of eight years for the treatment of the following infections (see sections 4.4 and 5.1): Complicated skin and soft tissue infections (cSSTI), excluding diabetic foot infections (see section 4.4); Complicated intra-abdominal infections (cIAI). Tigecycline should be used only in situations where other alternative antibiotics are not suitable (see sections 4.4, 4.8 and 5.1). Consideration should be given to official guidance on the appropriate use of antibacterial agents.

Purpose of review: Despite ground-breaking innovations for most autoimmune diseases, the treatment of lupus nephritis has remained largely the same for decades because none of the tested drugs demonstrated superiority over standard-of-care in randomized controlled clinical trials.

At the hospital, the attacks against health professionals are becoming commonplace, making working conditions difficult. The ophthalmological emergencies are a...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity around the world. The prevalence of CKD increases steadily over the past decade in parallel to the rapid expansion of diabetic population.