accurate method of bio-medical diagnosis. The present paper assesses the magnitude and nature of infections as diagnosed through laboratory testing and looks into the variation in magnitude and the nature of RTIs among women with different socio-economic and demographic characteristics. The aetiological

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Optical diagnostic imaging techniques are increasingly being used in the clinical environment, allowing for improved screening and diagnosis while minimizing the number of invasive procedures. Diffuse optical tomography, for example, is capable of whole-breast imaging and is being developed

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This report focuses on the evidence about the health.consequences of smoking for women, and is intended to serve.the public health and medical communities as 'a unified source of existing scientific research. The major issues about tobacco use and women's health are examined, including

previous data showed that restimulated whole PBMC from convalescent animals secreted much higher levels of IFN-γ. In addition, restimulation assays using human PBMC or murine splenocytes after infection or vaccination also show higher levels of secreted Currently, a major focus of public health agencies

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in practical implementation of public m-health is the use of shared license-free spectrum by body area networks (BANs) to report sampled vital signs continuously and in real time. A cognitive medium access control method called centralized body area network access scheme (CBAS) is proposed in this paper

to in the literature on this topic (see Chen J. and Patton R.J., Robust model-based fault diagnosis for dynamic systems, Kluwer academic publishers, Boston 1999), the term fault detection is used to describe the problem of making a binary decision either that something has gone wrong or that everything is fine

of leptospirosis on admission with jaundice, azotemia, and/ or bleeding. A definite diagnosis of murine typhus and leptospirosis co-infections could not be made, but in 3 cases this scenario was plausible. We did not find evidence for scrub typhus, which we expected, because O. tsutsugamushi transmission occurs