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Prospective studies examining the association between coffee and tea consumption and gastric cancer risk have shown inconsistent results. We investigated the association between coffee (total, caffeinated and decaffeinated) and tea consumption and the risk of gastric cancer by anatomical site and histological type in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study. Coffee an

Th is article compares the “right to seek and enjoy asylum” enshrined in Art. 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with the current EU policy developments to “externalize” or “extraterritorialise” migration control and refugee protection. Examining the genesis of Art. 14 during the negotiations of the Universal Declaration, it is argued that while Art. 14 clearly falls short of granting

The role of the fetal adrenal activity in the initiation of parturition in the human has been investigated. Women were studied in the last trimester of pregnancy during treatment with betamethasone for prevention of the idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome. Although betamethasone caused a considerable drop in the cortisol concentrations of fetal plasma and amniotic fluid, the time to spontaneo

Slutsatser„ Det finns två skolbaserade program som möjligen kan förebygga suicid- försök. Dessa är dock inte testade på ett vetenskapligt sätt i Sverige.Båda de program som har visat effekt är universella, dvs riktas till alla elever i klasserna.– Good Behavior Game (GBG) ges på lågstadiet under ett till två år. GBG är inte utvecklat för att förebygga självskada utan syftar till att förstärka posi

Rekommendationer för insatser vid självskadebeteende är framarbetade inom ramen för Nationella självskadeprojektet som på uppdrag av regeringen och Sveriges kommuner och landsting (SKL) utvecklat och samordnat kunskap kring självskade- beteende generellt och psykiatrins insatser specifikt. Dokumentet är antaget av projektets styrgrupp, representanter från brukar-, anhörig- och intresseorganisation

Background: Appendicitis is the most common disease requiring abdominal surgery in children. However, the diagnosis of pediatric appendicitis is still a challenge, resulting in perforation and negative appendectomies, especially in girls and young children. Further, the pathogenesis of acute appendicitis is not known. Aim: To examine acute appendicitis in children in the aspects of evaluation of t

Economic significance is frequently assessed through statistical hypothesis testing, which however, does not always correspond to the implicit economical questions being addressed. In this article we propose using mean value decomposition to assess economic significance. Unlike most previously suggested methods the proposed one is intuitive and simple to conduct. The technique is demonstrated and