EFFICACY OF INTRA-ARTICULAR INJECTION OF ALLOGENEIC PLATELET-RICH PLASMA FOR KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS COMBINED WITH HEMATOLOGIC BLOOD DYSCRASIAS WITH PLATELET DYSFUNCTION: PROTOCOL OF A RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLIND, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED TRIAL

Efficacy of intra-articular injection of allogeneic platelet-rich plasma for knee osteoarthritis combined with hematologic blood dyscrasias with platelet dysfunction: protocol of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Abstract Background Autologous platelet-rich plasma (PRP) has been shown to alleviate the symptoms of patients suffering from knee osteoarthritis (KOA), but for certain patients with hematologic diseases with platelet dysfunction and patients receiving anti-platelet medications, autologous PRP is not an optimum solution.Allogeneic PRP has been prov

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Lessons Learned From a Boston Community Health Center Promoting the Human Papilloma Virus Vaccine in a Minority Adult Population

This quality improvement study aims to examine knowledge and attitudes about human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination among women ages 18 through 26 in a Boston community health center to increase uptake of the HPV vaccine in the local community.This cross-sectional study was conducted from August 2007 to After Sun Mist July 2008 at an urban communit

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Accounts of the Count-Mass Distinction: A Critical Survey

The Cover Dispensers issue of what is usually, but also misleadingly called the count-mass distinction, i.e.the distinction between nouns that can be counted (e.g.a car, two cars, many cars) and nouns that cannot (e.g.*a sand, *two sands, *many sands, sand, much sand), has been addressed and accounted for in different ways.This paper gives a critic

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