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The purpose of this study was to analyze the impact of the national lockdown on femoral neck fractures occurred in the elderly in an Italian city with more than 650 thousand people. We analyzed data related to patients over 65 years-old with femoral neck fractures admitted between March 9th and April 24th, 2020 to five public Hospitals in Palermo and four private Hospitals during lockdown. A total of 152 patients with hip fracture were observed with a significant reduction compared with the same period in 2017-2019. During the Lockdown period a reduction was observed of the mean age from 84.2 ±2.6 years old to 82.5±1.2 with a higher incidence in males, particularly in < 80-year-olds. The national lockdown resulted in a decreased incidence of proximal femur fractures in the under 80 years-old population, mainly in males. No significant differences were noted in older patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The median self-citation rate of a researcher normally ranged between 10% and 25%. Recent works demonstrated that, among a list of around 100,000 researchers worldwide, hundreds of authors have collected more than a half of their work citations from themselves or their co-authors. During last years, EuroMediterranean Biomedical Journal progressively sought to improve the quality of the manuscripts published, introducing the requirement for all articles to be written in English and, before acceptance, to undergone to a native English speaker proof-reading process from 2012. Moreover, a new publishing layout and a renewed web-portal of the journal were introduced in 2017, representing a further upgrade after over 10 years of editorial activity. Finally, a renewed Editorial Board was designated in 2018. Nowadays, for the first time, the EMBJ Editorial Board unanimously has established a policy for self-referencing, accepting for peer reviews only manuscript with a number of self-citations no exceeding 25% of total references amount. Moreover, a major attention to consistency and coherence of self-cited references with the issues treated in the manuscript submitted, will be requested during peer-review process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In January 2006, a new journal, Capsula Eburnea, was born into the Italian scientific publishing scene with the initial goal of creating, at the same time, "an open scientific forum and a blog", based on the premise that "in medicine, nothing should be considered stable, immutable or unsusceptible to critical review at any time, by any scientist". The Editorial Team progressively sought to improve the quality of the manuscripts published, introducing the requirement for all articles to be written in English, and changed the Journal's name to EuroMediterranean Biomedical Journal in 2012. Over the last five years, approximately 125 articles by young doctors (including original articles, reviews, commentaries, notes, and abstract books) have been published. The editorial board are confident that the new publishing layout and the renewed web-portal of the journal, introduced in this editorial, represent an essential upgrade after over 10 years of editorial activity, and that these improvements will be appreciated by our authors and, especially, our readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In January 2006, a new journal, Capsula Eburnea, was born in the Italian scientific publishing scene, with the initial goal of creating, at the same time, "an open scientific forum and a blog". Until December 2009, the vast majority of manuscripts was still published in Italian, restricting the number of readers. From the end of 2009, the journal has undergone extensive changes, becoming indexed in the main scientific search engines (Scopus, Directory of Open Access Journal, Google Scholar, Ulrich Periodical Directory), and renewing its Editorial Team with a role reassignment and expanding the Editorial Board to up to 40 young doctors with proven scientific experience from 15 countries around the world, working as researchers, PhD students, senior medical staff, research fellows or doctors in specialist training. Finally, the journal has progressively encouraged the publication of articles in English, through an endorsed English translation service provided by native English speaking translators. This service became mandatory for all peer-reviewed articles accepted by the Journal in 2011. At the same time, the Editorial Board unanimously decreed to change the name of the journal into "Euromediterranean Biomedical Journal for young doctors (formerly: Capsula Eburnea)" from January 2012. Today, the journal is fully open access (including the archives of Capsula Eburnea) with the possibility to download articles for free, and the publication process involves a blind peer review of each article by at least two scientists. During its first two years of activity, the Euromediterranean Biomedical Journal (EMBJ) published 48 scientific articles (17 original articles, 14 reviews, 13 case report, two technical reports and two commentaries) and one edition of Conference Proceedings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Metacarpal synostosis is a rare congenital hand malformation requiring only occasionally a surgical correction. However in case of divergent epiphyses there is a progressive accentuation of the deformity. In the "Y" type of synostosis between fourth and fifth metacarpals, the authors propose a subtractive wedge osteotomy, synthesized by a screw that allows the alignment of the metacarpophalangeal joint of the fifth finger with those of other fingers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The calcaneo-stop operation with Astragalic Conical Screw is one of the more efficient and less invasive surgical methods for the treatment of valgus flatfoot in childhood. The study aims to review the case studies about this method practiced during the period between 1995 and 2008. 719 calcaneo-stop operations with Astragalic Conical Screw were evaluated after the removal of the screw with a period of follow-up since one up to ten years. The study confirms the effectiveness and simplicity of the surgical technique and it stresses the lack of invasiveness in relation to the involved joint structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article presents an abstract of a study that examined the effects of working activity and work shifts on the circadian rhythmicity and circadian phase relations of serum cortisol level, white blood cell count, resting heart rate and blood pressure in fishermen.