Deadly encounters in Australia

Hepatitis is Deadly

احتمال ابتلای پرستاران به هپاتیت B بیش از احتمال ابتلای آنان به ویروس ایدز است. احتیاطات عمومی، واکسن هپاتیت B، و آگاهی از این بیماری، ابزارهائی هستند که شما احتیاج دارید تا خود را در مقابل تماس های شغلی محافظت نمایید.

Greetings and Politeness in Doctor-Client Encounters in Southwestern Nigeria

Doctors and clients sometimes experience interactive clashes during hospital meetings in South-western Nigerian hospitals because of their divergent culture-constrained orientation to politeness cues. The goal of this paper is to unpack the discursive elements that characterize interactive confluence and divergence in selected consultative encounters in the hospitals. The findings indicate that...

Deadly duo

An astonishing one-third of the world’s population is infected with the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In most people it remains inactive or latent but in about 10% of people an active case of TB disease will develop within their lifetime. Simple antibiotics can prevent and treat most of these cases, yet 8-10 million people develop an active TB infection an...

Deadly radon in montana?

Deadly radon in montana?

Noting a negative correlation between average radon levels and lung cancer mortality in Montana counties, Hart (2011) “questions the notion that radon is deadly in Montana.” Results from a much larger ecological study of the correlation between county radon levels and lung cancer mortality across the whole United States were published in the 1990s (Cohen 1990, 1995). Like Hart, Cohen found an i...