Diabetes is a complex metabolic disorder affecting the glucose status of the human body.
Chronic hyperglycaemia related to diabetes is associated with end organ failure. The clinical …

Background Heart disease represents the main determinant of survival in β-thalassemia, but
its particular features in the two clinical forms of the disease, thalassemia major (TM) and …

The immense growth of MEDLINE coupled with the realization that a vast amount of biomedical
knowledge is recorded in free-text format, has led to the appearance of a large number …

OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors for the development of statin-associated diabetes mellitus
(DM). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The study was conducted in two phases. …

Drug repurposing is the process of using existing drugs in indications other than the ones
they were originally designed for. It is an area of significant recent activity due to the mounting …

Raising awareness and providing guidance to on-line data protection is undoubtedly a crucial
issue worldwide. Equally important is the issue of applying privacy-related legislation in a …

Splenomegaly is common in β-thalassemia, bearing some particular hemodynamic features,
while splenectomy is an established therapeutic intervention in these patients. Their effects, …

Drug Repositioning (DR) has recently emerged as a complementary approach to classic
drug discovery aiming at challenging the limited productivity issues associated with the …

Methods: We studied 41 elderly patients (mean age 69.8 yr, standard deviation [SD] 3.9 yr)
suffering from chronic severe anemia (mean hemoglobin 6.3, SD 0.5 g/dL) with no history of …

Initially introduced in the 1950s for treating depression, monoamine oxidase (MAO)
inhibitors were gradually abandoned, mainly owing to their potential for drug–drug and drug–food …