Attacks of asthma can be provoked by a variety of stimuli, including infections, allergens, exercise, and emotional stress. Sexual intercourse as a trigger factor for attacks of asthma and the morbidity caused thereof is not well recognized
Johann Gaspar Spurzheim (portrait depicted in Fig. 1) was born on December 31, 1775 in the city of Longuich, then under the rule of Prussia, now Germany. There are reports of him being born 1776, and other reports with John as his first name [1, 2].
Meditation is a family of mental practices that encompasses a wide array of techniques employing distinctive mental strategies. We systematically reviewed 78 functional neuroimaging (fMRI and PET) studies of meditation, and used activation likelihood estimation to meta-analyze 257 peak foci from 31 experiments involving 527 participants.
Breast fibroepithelial lesions (fibroadenomas and phyllodes tumors) are underpinned by recurrent MED12 exon 2 mutations, which are more common in fibroadenomas and benign phyllodes tumors. TERT promoter hotspot mutations have been documented in phyllodes tumors, and found to be more frequent in borderline and malignant lesions. Several lines of evidence suggest that a subset of phyllodes tumors…