Facing our plastic waste crisis: biorecycling as a promising solution

Increased Elderly Utilization of Psychiatric Emergency Resources as a Reflection of the Growing Mental Health Crisis Facing Our Aging Population.

The elderly population continues to soar in the United States, with the number of those older than 65 years expected to double from 2010 to 2050. Many are predicting an imminent mental health crisis for our seniors, as available resources lag further behind the demand. One contributing factor is the evergrowing number of individuals with dementia-related behavioral symptoms. In Hawaii, a top re...

Plastic waste as a novel substrate for industrial biotechnology

Nick Wierckx,1 M. Auxiliadora Prieto,2 Pablo Pomposiello,3 Victor de Lorenzo,4 Kevin O’Connor5,6 and Lars M. Blank1* Institute of Applied Microbiology – iAMB, Aachen Biology and Biotechnology – ABBt, RWTH Aachen University, Worringerweg 1, Aachen 52074, Germany. Biological Research Center, The Spanish National Research Council (CIB-CSIC), C/ Ramiro de Maeztu, 9, Madrid 28040, Spain. Bacmine, Ca...

The latex allergy crisis: proposing a healthy solution to the dilemma facing the medical community.

Gasification of plastic waste as waste-to-energy or waste-to-syngas recovery route

The disposal of plastic solid waste (PSW) has become a major worldwide environmental problem. New sustainable processes have emerged, i.e. either advanced mechanical recycling of PSW as virgin or second grade plastic feedstock, or thermal treatments to recycle the waste as virgin monomer, as synthetic fuel gas, or as heat source (incineration with energy recovery). These processes avoid land fi...

Plastic Our Experience

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate and present our experience of surgical correction of nipple inversion. PATIENTS & METHODS: During the study period of from March 2006 to December 2009, 13 female patients, with diagnosis of nipple inversion directly reported at OPD and admitted to Department of plastic & Burn Surgery; Liaquat University of Medical & health Sciences, Jamshoro. 02 patients were referred fro...