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We suggest that urgent liver transplantation has good outcomes for late-onset presentations and recommend that urgent transplantation should always be considered in Wilson's disease presenting as acute liver failure. Lay summary Wilson's disease is a rare inherited disease that causes copper accumulation in the liver and brain and usually manifests during childhood, adolescence or early adulthood. We report the case of a 62-year-old who developed acute liver failure and was successfully treated with urgent liver transplantation. We discuss the outcomes of other late-onset cases of acute liver failure due to Wilson's disease in the literature and provide additional data from the UK Transplant Registry. © 2020 The Author(s).Background HIV testing rates in many hyper-endemic areas are lower than needed to curtail the HIV epidemic. New HIV testing strategies are needed to overcome barriers to traditional clinic based testing; HIV self-testing is one modality that offers promise in reaching individuals who experience barriers to clinic-based testing. Methods We conducted a randomized control trial among young women ages 18-26 living in rural Mpumalanga, South Africa where they were randomized in a 11 allocation to either the (1) HIV Counseling and Testing (HCT) arm an invitation to test at one of the 9 local government clinics where free HCT is provided and is standard of care (SOC), or (2) choice arm choice of either a clinic-based HCT invitation or oral HIV Self-Testing (HIVST) kits. Depending on the arm, participants were also provided either (1) 4 HCT invitations to provide to peers/partners for HIV testing at one of the 9 local clinics, or (2) 4 HIV self-test kits to provide to peers/partners (thus 5 total HIVST kits or HCT inding US National Institutes of Health. © 2020 The Author(s).Background Previous clinical evaluations have demonstrated a difference in eye movements in healthy children compared to children with vertigo without vestibular pathology. It has also been previously shown that accommodation and vergence responses can be measured with remote haploscopic photo refractor (RHP) devices. We have developed a method, called REMOBI (patent US8851669, WO2011073288) that allows us to test eye movements in three-dimensional space without decoupling vergence and accommodation.[1]. this website Methods We compared standard clinical testing of vergence and accommodation responses separately, with laboratory simultaneous measurement of vergence and accommodation in healthy children, 31 with vertigo (mean age 11 SD +/- 3.02), and 53 without (mean age 10 SD +/- 3.29). Children diagnosed with vertigo then underwent orthoptic rehabilitation for vergence and accommodation disorders and were re-evaluated twice using laboratory testing once after 12 sessions and once 3-months after completing the sessions. Fng objective measurements, such as using a RHP device, when diagnosing patients with vergence and accommodation disorders, to avoid prescribing costly and timely rehabilitation programs that do not improve accommodative and vergence movements. Funding We thank the Fulbright Foundation, along with the University of California, San Francisco, for the research fellowship to Lindsey M Ward. This study is part of the PHRC VERVE, hospital research program, run at the hospital Robert Debré and supported by Direction de la Recherche Clinique, Assistance Publique, France. The funding sources had no involvement in the study design; collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; writing of the manuscript; and in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication. © 2020 CNRS IRIS FRE2022 University of Paris F-75006.Background Opioids have, at most, small benefits for non-cancer pain in the medium and long-term but there is good evidence that they cause harm. The current study describes the characteristics and clinical status of people taking regular opioids in Great Britain and determines whether use is associated with mortality risk. Methods An analysis of participants in UK Biobank, a prospective population-based study. At recruitment (2006-10) participants reported medicines which they regularly used in addition to lifestyle and health-related factors. Information was available on deaths until October 2016. Findings There were 466 486 participants (54% women) aged 40-69 years and without a prior history of cancer of whom 5.5% were regularly using opioids. Use increased with age-group, was more common in females (6.3% v. 4.6%) and 87% of persons using them reported chronic pain. The highest rates of use (~1 in 9) were in people with low household income, who left school less then 16 years and lived in areas with high.Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been shown to be associated differentially with contraceptive use based on type, with IPV more likely among pill users and less likely among condom users. Recent increases in IUD uptake allow consideration of this type of contraceptive. We assessed the association between self-reported IPV and self-reported contraceptive use, by type, among non-pregnant married women in rural India in a region with higher than average IUD use. Methods We assessed the association between past 12-month IPV (physical, sexual, or any) and past 3-month contraceptive use (condom, pill, IUD, or any modern method) using crude and adjusted multinomial logistic regression models. Findings Among the 1001 women included, 109 (10·9%) reported experiencing physical IPV and 27 (2·7%) reported experiencing sexual IPV in the past 12 months. Women experiencing physical IPV were significantly less likely to use condoms (adjusted relative risk ratio [RRR] 0·54, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0·30-0·98, p = 0·042) than women not experiencing violence. There was a trend towards increased IUD use among women experiencing physical IPV (adjusted RRR 1·78, 95% CI 0·91-3·41, p = 0·091) compared to those not experiencing physical IPV, but this did not reach statistical significance. Interpretation Our findings suggest that women who experience physical IPV in India are less likely to use condoms and may be more likely to use IUDs than women without exposure to IPV. This research expands on prior findings suggesting higher uptake of women-controlled contraceptives among women contending with IPV in India. © 2020 The Author(s).