Background: Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a major public health concern in South Africa (SA).Abrupt cessation or reduction of alcohol intake in chronic users can result in withdrawal symptoms.Benzodiazepines are the treatment of choice but need to be used cautiously in patients with a lifetime history of substance abuse given their highly addictive
Abstract Background Oil Left Front Cover spills are widespread and can cause devastating environmental consequences.Rapid oil identification is critical to find the origin of the spill, monitor the environment, and lead to informed mitigation measures.The current standard methods in oil spill identification are precise and reliable, but require ext
A collective trauma established in the cultural memory can function as a unifier of the in-group for a long time.The objective of this article is to clarify how April 9, 1989 and 1991, the Tbilisi War and civil confrontation, and a stressful series of sudden and intensive changes are analyzed, conceptualized, and interpreted in the fiction and memo
Dying in a head-down position is a not so common occurrence, and the cause of death may not be immediately Crimpers clear by the results of the autopsy.The authors describe a case of a six-months-old baby, previously healthy and asymptomatic, found in a head-down position, stuck between the bed and the wall.Despite the efforts to revive the baby, h
Differentiated thyroid cancer arising from thyroid follicular epithelial cells is the most frequent endocrine malignancy, and skin metastases are very rare.We describe a case of a 70-year-old women with a history of an indeterminate thyroid nodule on cytology.A Laundry Set painless, erythematous skin nodule of about 7 mm diameter was removed from t