Background The potential for a global epidemic of asbestos-related diseases is a growing
concern. Our aim was to assess the ecological association between national death rates from …

Objective. To study the efficacy of anakinra versus disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARD)
in refractory adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD). Methods. In a 24-week study, 22 …

Epidemiological studies indicate that the use of aspirin decreases incidence of and mortality
from gastrointestinal cancers. A major target of aspirin and other nonsteroid anti-…

Background. There is little evidence to support possible structural changes in the amygdala
and hippocampus of patients with severe depression.Methods. Quantitative MRI of the …

Microscopic techniques for analysing asbestos fibres in lung tissue and bronchoalveolar
lavage have provided major information in the understanding of asbestos-related diseases. …

This study examined the relationship between adolescents' prosocial problem-solving
strategies and prosocial behaviour, and their associations with social acceptance among their …

The expression patterns of cancer-related genes in 13 cases of squamous cell lung cancer (SCC)
were characterized and compared with those in normal lung tissue and 13 …

Objective Early treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) with combination
treatment starting with methotrexate, sulfasalazine, hydroxychloroquine and prednisolone (FIN-…

Primitive streak formation in the chick embryo involves large-scale highly coordinated flows
of more than 100,000 cells in the epiblast. These large-scale tissue flows and deformations …

No clear patterns in molecular changes underlying the malignant processes in lung cancer
of different histological types have been found so far. To identify critical genes in lung cancer …