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Background: Immunohistochemical markers can be used to classify breast cancer into distinct biological subtypes that behave differently. The Hormone receptors (estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR)), and human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2) profile of breast carcinoma have a significant role in determining patient's prognosis, in addition to early detection of cancer, planning treatment and monitoring response to treatment. Increase use of tumor markers represents a shift in understanding of the basic biology of breast cancer, and treatment modules.

Objective: to evaluate the frailty syndrome in the elderly hospitalized in a teaching hospital. Method: cross-sectional study with 107 elderly hospitalized in a teaching hospital at Campos Gerais, Ponta Grossa – PR, from October 2016 to April 2017. Data collection included the application of the Mini Mental State Examination, Fragility Scale of Edmonton and a sociodemographic and health questionnaire. Data was analyzed using Stata®12 Software. The association was verified through simple linear regression (Fisher's F and Student's T tests), significance level of p 0.05.

Introduction of the study: Nursing Profession is an important part of the health care system, which works for the Wellbeing of health, inhibition of illness, and care of persons who are physically, mentally ill and disable people in all ages (Althabe et al., 2015). According to the Armstrong et al., (2015), the best evidence of nursing care can be assessed by their competencies,. The nursing supervisor plays an important role organizing patient care activities. Objectives: To identify the difference in management competencies among head nurses of Public and Private Hospitals of Lahore.

U-mineralization in the Gudarukoppu area, close to the SE-margin of India’s Mesoproterozoic Cuddapah basin is of a low-temperature, remobilized, hydro (epi)-thermal vein-type that appears to be a consequence of regional deformation - metamorphism-K-Mg-Fe-P-B-metasomatism, all of which affected the area to different degrees within the structurally weak major shear zone. Its U-ore (quartz apatite cataclasite, assaying 0.29% U3O8 and < 0.01% ThO2) was subjected to a preliminary laboratory-scale mineral processing study.

This study aimed to analyze contributions from the health situation as a tool to support municipal management in monitoring and control of leprosy. A cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach performed in the city of Vitoria de Santo Antão/PE. The results showed an incidence of leprosy of 11,04/100.000 inhabitants in the general population, being 5,99/100.000 in children younger than 15 years of age. It was also found that only 44.44% of the total cases were discharged because of cure, keeping far away from the achievement of goals laid down by WHO.

A cross-sectional and quantitative study aimed at analyzing socio-economic, family environment, access and use of dental services, subjective aspects and their relationship with dental caries in 253 children aged 12 years old enrolled in municipal schools of a medium-sized municipality of south of Brazil. A clinical examination was carried out to collect cases of dental caries using the decayed, missing and filled teeth index (DMFT), classifying children into two groups: Group 1: Caries Free and Group 2: With caries experience.

Sex fixing of mammalian progenies has been an adorable dream of reproductive physiologists and scientific history is replete with attempts to produce sexed offsprings. Most of them involved techniques producing sexed semen. However, present methodology is a novel in vivo patented technology which uses the administration of a liquid oral formulation which contains chemical ingredients like monosodiumethanoate and ethanoic acid which when given before insemination to females of dairy animals; yields female off-springs with considerable success rate.

Organic farming is a production system which avoids or largely excludes the use of synthetic compounded fertilizers, pesticide, growth regulators and livestock feed additives. Though organic farming has many advantages like food safety, environmental and health issues and quality, conversion to organic dairy farming is meager and negligible, so it is important to identify drivers and the barriers affecting the decision in favour of organic dairy farming.

Background: The epidemiology of MRSA is constantly changing, which re¬sults in variation in its drug-resistance patterns throughout regions and countries. Therefore, to support clinicians in preventing and treating infection, epidemiologic surveil¬lance is essential. Phage typing had been reported to be valuable in the identification of known epidemic strains among endemic strains and is preferred as a first line approach in epidemiological investigation of MRSA strains. Aim: To identify the epidemiology of S.

Contemporary health care systems face increasing strain due to a variety of factors, including the growing need for care and its associated rising costs. This has motivated extensive and ongoing efforts to reform health care. The pressure to reform the health care system has led to the pursuit of new, more effective models of health care delivery. Unfortunately, these new models do not perform to their full potentials. If these new models are to achieve their intended outcomes, it will require leadership from the front-line clinicians who primarily work in patient care.