NEW DISEASES OR DEVIATIONS FROM OLD ONES ?

Finding 'new' occupational diseases and trends in 'old' ones.

Strategies for the reduction of risk to the health of workers, as well as the population in general, rely on the collection, analysis and interpretation of valid data to study work-related ill-health in relation to its determinants. In the developed world, through advances in occupational medicine and changing societal attitude reflected in legislation, the scourges of many occupational disease...

Ebola therapy: Developing new drugs or repurposing old ones?

New anthropometric indices or old ones: which perform better in estimating cardiovascular risks in Chinese adults

BACKGROUND Various anthropometric indices can be used to estimate obesity, and it is important to determine which one is the best in predicting the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) and to define the optimal cut-off point for the best index. METHODS This cross-sectional study investigated a consecutive sample of 11,247 adults, who had lived in rural areas of China and were older than 35 ye...

Same Old Bugs, New Diseases

Blood-borne mycoplasmas, known collectively as hemotropic mycoplasmas or hemoplasmas, are small, pleomorphic, epicellular bacteria that adhere to the host’s red blood cells. They cannot be cultured. They can be detected microscopically in blood smears and, more reliably, through use of PCR assays on whole blood. The hemoplasmas vary in severity of disease caused to the host and most infected an...

Concepts for Liver Segment Classification: Neither Old Ones nor New Ones, but a Comprehensive One

Concepts dealing with the subdivision of the human liver into independent vascular and biliary territories are applied routinely in radiological, surgical, and gastroenterological practice. Despite Couinaud's widely used eight-segments scheme, opinions on the issue differ considerably between authors. The aim of this article is to illustrate the scientific basis for understanding and harmonizin...