Notes from Mosier--The Silver Swan

Notes from the Field: Acute Mercury Poisoning After Home Gold and Silver Smelting--Iowa, 2014.

In March 2014, a man, aged 59 years, who lived alone and had been using different smelting techniques viewed on the Internet to recover gold and silver from computer components, was evaluated at a local emergency department for shortness of breath, tremors, anorexia, and generalized weakness. During the smelting processes, he had used hydrogen peroxide, nitric acid, muriatic acid, and sulfuric ...

Tricuspid valve erosion from Swan-Ganz catheters.

CHEST, 80: 4, OCTOBER, 1981 TRICUSPID VALVE EROSION FROM SWAN-GANZ CATHETERS 509 monaistenosen durch tumourkonipression. Wien Kiln Wochenschr 1979; 91:429 5 Harris M, Woo-Ming MO, Miller CC. Acquired pulmonary stenosis due to compression by a bronchiogenic cyst. Thorax 1973; 28:394 6 Son R, Nakhjavan FK, Goldberg H. Mediastinal tumor simulating idiopathic dilation of pulmonary artery: diagnosis...

The Journal: A Swan-Song

Hunting for the Black Swan: Risk Mining from Text

In the business world, analyzing and dealing with risk permeates all decisions and actions. However, to date, risk identification, the first step in the risk management cycle, has always been a manual activity with little to no intelligent software tool support. In addition, although companies are required to list risks to their business in their annual SEC filings in the USA, these description...

Notes from the Editor

volume 117 | number 9 | September 2009 • Environmental Health Perspectives Fifteen years ago, Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) stated in its Instructions to Authors that scientific integrity would be considered as part of the review process. Since that time, EHP’s policy has gradually evolved, especially with regard to competing financial interests. EHP, like many other journals, is conc...