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Masahito Katsuki,1,2 Maiko Nanri,3 Yuki Miyakoshi,4 Shuto Gobo,4 Akihito Koh,2 Shin Kawamura,2 Senju Tachikawa,2 Ryo Matsukawa,2 Kenta Kashiwagi,5 Mitsuhiro Matsuo,6 Fuminori Yamagishi7 1Department of Neurosurgery and Headache Outpatient, Japanese Red Cross Suwa Hospital, Nagano, Japan; 2Department of Neurosurgery, Itoigawa General Hospital, Niigata, Japan; 3Nurse-Senka, SMS Corporation, Tokyo, Japan; 4Creatone, Regnition, Saitama, Japan; 5Department of Neurology, Itoigawa General Hospital, Niigata, Japan; 6Department of Anesthesiology, Toyama University Hospital, Toyama, Japan; 7Department of Surgery, Itoigawa General Hospital, Niigata, JapanCorrespondence: Masahito Katsuki, Department of Neurosurgery, Japanese Red Cross Suwa Hospital, 5-11-50, Kogandori, Suwa, Nagano, 392-0027, Japan, Tel/Fax +81-0266-52-6111, Email ktk1122nigt@gmail.comIntroduction: Headache is a common public health problem, but its burden could be avoided by raising headache awareness and the appropriate use of acute medication and prophylactic medication. Few reports on raising headache awareness in the general public have been reported, and there are no reports on headache awareness campaigns through social networking services (SNS), or social media, in Japan. We prospectively performed a headache awareness campaign from March 2022 through 2 SNS, targeting nurse and wind instrumental musicians, because they are with high headache prevalence.Methods: Through the 2 SNS, the article and video were distributed, respectively. The article and video described the 6 important topics for the general public about headaches, which were described in the Clinical Practice Guideline for Headache Disorders 2021. Just after reading or watching them as e-learning, we performed online questionnaire sheets to investigate the awareness of the 6 topics through the 2 SNS. The awareness of the 6 topics before and after the campaign was evaluated.Results: In the SNS nurse-senka, we obtained 1191 responses. Women comprised 94.4%, and the median (range) age was 45 (20 to 71) years old. Headache sufferers were 63.8%, but only 35.1% had consulted doctors. In the SNS Creatone, we got the response from 134 professional musicians, with 77.3% of women. The largest number of respondents were in their 20s (range 18– 60 years old). Headache sufferers were 87.9%. Of them, 36.4% had consulted doctors, 24.2% were medication-overuse headache. The ratios of individuals who were aware of the 6 topics significantly increased from 15.2%-47.0% to 80.4– 98.7% after the online questionnaire in both SNS (p < 0.001, all).Conclusion: E-learning and online survey via SNS can improve headache awareness.Keywords: awareness, education, medication-overuse headache, migraine, online, prevention, social networking services, social media

Yuka Hasebe,1 Kenji Kashiwagi,1 Toyoaki Tsumura,2 Yasuyuki Suzuki,3 Keiji Yoshikawa,4 Hirotaka Suzumura,5 Toshine Maeda,6 Ryuji Takeda,7 Hitomi Saito,8 Makoto Araie8 1Department of Ophthalmology, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan; 2Department of Ophthalmology, Fussa Hospital, Tokyo, Japan; 3Department of Ophthalmology, Tokai University, Kanagawa, Japan; 4Yoshikawa Eye Clinic, Tokyo, Japan; 5Suzumura Eye Clinic, Tokyo, Japan; 6Maeda Eye Clinic, Tokyo, Japan; 7Faculty of Agriculture, Kinki University, Nara, Japan; 8Department of Ophthalmology, Kanto Central Hospital of the Mutual Aid Association of Public School, Tokyo, Japan Purpose: We investigated patient adherence and factors related to a newly introduced prostaglandin analog and timolol fixed-combination eye drops (PGTFC).Patients and methods: The Glaucoma Research on Adherence to fixed-Combination Eye drops in Japan (GRACE) study group performed a nationwide prospective questionnaire survey. Participants in this study were patients with glaucoma who were scheduled to receive any type of PGTFC for the first time. The participants answered a questionnaire on the day of PGTFC introduction and again at a return visit 4–6 weeks after PGTFC introduction. The physicians in charge were asked to complete a separate questionnaire on the day of PGTFC introduction. One of two leaflets was randomly delivered to each participant before the description of the PGTFC. One leaflet explained how to correctly instill the eye drops, and the other explained the clinical meaning of intraocular pressure reduction in addition to explaining how to correctly instill the eye drops. Nonadherence was defined as forgetting to instill the eye drops one or more times during the week before the return visit.Results: In total, 3,597 patients (age, 68.4±12.2 years) met the study protocol requirements. PGTFC introduction significantly reduced the number of antiglaucoma eye drops from 1.93±0.78 to 1.34±0.54 (P

Aim: To compare incidence of iridial pigmentation prospectively induced by long term treatment with latanoprost and isopropyl unoprostone (hereafter, unoprostone) in Japanese patients with glaucoma. Methods: Patients with glaucoma treated [...]

Aims: To investigate the agreement in results between frequency doubling technology (FDT) and the conventional automated static perimeter in eyes with normal tension glaucoma (NTG) and high tension glaucoma (HTG). [...]

Aim: To investigate the effects of a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) ophthalmic solution on latanoprost induced intraocular pressure (IOP) reduction using normal volunteers. Methods: This study was conducted as a [...]

This clinical case report presents a new technique for reconstructing the vertical and horizontal dimensions of the alveolar ridge using a mandibular bone block at sites planned for single implants. Augmentation was eased with the use of a mandibular bone block, which was shaped after placement with a round bur to passively fit the dimensions of the defect, at the recipient site. After treatment, approximately 7 mm of horizontal and 3 mm of vertical augmentation were gained. Histologic observation showed that the grafted bone was well integrated with the original bone. The volume of tissue gained was sufficient for placing an implant in an optimal position. The gain in the vertical and horizontal dimensions allowed an esthetic result with a single-tooth crown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Even during the conflict, agricultural extension by the Palestinian Authority has played an important role in agricultural development in the West Bank of the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT). The Ministry of Agriculture of the Palestinian Authority provided the necessary agricultural extension services for Palestinian farmers affected by the Israeli settlements and Segregation Wall. Despite such importance of agricultural extension, few quantitative studies have examined its effect on Palestinian farmers. Therefore, the objective of this study was to quantify the effect of agricultural extension on technology adoption by Palestinian farmers for appropriate evaluation of the agricultural policies by the Palestinian Authority. The microdata of 79,446 agricultural holdings from the Agricultural Census 2010, which was the only microdata officially published and available at the time of this study, was used. Then, the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method was employed to mitigate the endogenous bias caused by self-selection by farmers in receiving the agricultural extension. The results showed that agricultural extension has positively and significantly affected the adoption of five technologies, namely improved crop varieties, chemical fertilizers, organic fertilizers, pesticides, and biological control. The estimated increase in the adoption rate of those technologies as the average treatment effects on the treated (ATT) by the nearest-neighbor matching method were by 7.1, 7.7, 5.4, 6.8, and 3.8 percentage points respectively. This study proved that agricultural extension promoted the adoption of those technologies even in the conflict. Therefore, agricultural extension by the Palestinian Authority plays an important role in farming by Palestinian farmers. In order to maintain and improve farmers' livelihoods sustainably, it is necessary to continue the agricultural extension by the Palestinian Authority in the future, considering the behavior of farmers.