Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5793/1510066

Adolescent Sense of Coherence and Antidepressants Usage 11 Years Later

Else Toft Wurtz, Jens Tølboll Mortensen and Kirsten Fonager

Article Type: Letter To The Editor | First Published: October 26, 2017

Sense of Coherence (SOC) was introduced in 1979 by Aaron Antonovsky as a salutogenic concept that captured the strength and determinants in health from an orientation-to-life questionnaire....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5793/1510065

Zika, Public Health, and Future Professionals: An Assessment of Student Knowledge, Media Utilization and Health Literacy Levels

Amy K. Chesser, Nikki Keene Woods, Jennifer Mattar and Lamin Barrow

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: September 27, 2017

Over the past year, there has been increased public attention focused on the continued spread of Zika worldwide. The origin of the Zika Virus (ZIKV) was the result of a flavivirus found in the blood of a rhesus monkey (isolated in 1947), found near the city of Entebbe, Uganda, in the Zika forest....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5793/1510064

Empty-Nest Syndrome: Pathway to "Construction or Destruction"

Basem Abbas Al Ubaidi

Article Type: Review Article | First Published: September 27, 2017

Many friends I have between their early forties to late fifties seem to have a pessimistic view on their well being. They have the urge to make irrational and sudden changes in their lives, believing that such changes would result in an increase in their happiness....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2572-4010.1510019

Effects of Supersession Prescription/Metformin Combination Therapy in Overweight and Obese Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes

Yiyuan Zheng, Dan Fang, Miao Wang, Xiaogang Ma, Meng Xu and Songhua He

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: September 23, 2017

This study was a 13-week, open-labeled, randomized parallel controlled study. Patients were randomly assigned to the treated and control groups in a 1:1 ratio. Both groups were provided metformin at the dosage of 750 mg twice daily as the primary treatment and the Supersession Prescription was given to the treated group as a supplementary treatment....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3419/1410085

Assessing Response to Chemoradiotherapy on 18F-FDG PET Images in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer using New Approaches of Histogram and Gray Level Co-Occurrence Matrix

Changdong Ma, Judong Luo, Yong Hou and Changsheng Ma

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: October 28, 2017

Twelve patients with newly diagnosed NSCLC and treated with combined Chemoradiotherapy (CRT) were involved in this study. We analyzed the percentage variation of gray value in every gray level or on the whole using histogram analysis algorithm which represents global intensity distribution....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3419/1410084

The Utilization of Partial Orchiectomy in Treating Small Testicular Tumors in the United States

Shaheen Alanee, Joseph Clemons, Bradley Holland, Max Nutt and Danuta Dynda

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: October 18, 2017

There is increasing evidence supporting the feasibility of Partial Orchiectomy (PO) as a treatment for small testicular tumors. However, the prevalence of this practice is still unknown. We used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End results (SEER) registry to characterize national practice patterns for surgical management of patients with testicular tumors ≤ 2 cm in size, and we examined factors that determined performing PO in such patients....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2378-3419/1410083

Physiological Effort in Submaximal Fitness Tests Predicts Weight Loss in Overweight and Obese Men with Prostate Cancer in a Weight Loss Trial

Andrew D Frugé, John A Dasher, David Bryan, Soroush Rais-Bahrami, Wendy Demark-Wahnefried and Gary R Hunter

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: October 16, 2017

Obesity and weight gain after the diagnosis of prostate cancer are associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer recurrence and mortality; individualized plans to help prostate cancer survivors maintain or lose weight may be beneficial for recurrence risk reduction....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5750/1510049

The Impact of Patient, Physician and Tumor Factors on Awareness and Early Diagnosis of Cutaneous Melanoma

TK Pandian, Vikram Krishnamurthy and Tina J Hieken

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: October 18, 2017

The incidence of and death rate from Cutaneous Melanoma (CMM) continue to increase. Prior data suggests that more than half of CMM are detected by patients or their close contacts and that this Patient-Detected Melanomas (PDM) present at higher stage than those found by physicians....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5831/1510013

On Sample Size Calculation for Exact Group Sequential Tests for Rare Disease

Man Jin and James L Kepner

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: October 09, 2017

For a rare disease, all the patients having the disease constitute a small population, and the standard single-stage hypergeometric test is uniformly most powerful to evaluate the response probability of a specific treatment regimen....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2377-3634/1410073

New Development of Hypoglycemia in a Previously Poorly-Controlled Type 2 Diabetic: Ackee Fruit-Induced Hypoglycemia

Summaya Abdul Latif and and Pooja Luthra

Article Type: Case Report | First Published: October 26, 2017

We report a patient with new onset hypoglycemia due to the consumption of the Ackee fruit. Patient is a 95-year-old Jamaican male with history of uncontrolled, insulin requiring Type 2 diabetes mellitus. He presented with new onset of hypoglycemia and improvement in hemoglobin A1C without any changes in diabetes regimen....