Suicide and drug‐related mortality following occupational injury

Occupational Malaria Following Needlestick Injury

1878 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 10, No. 10, October 2004 from randomized controlled trials are lacking. All of our patients had been previously healthy, with no coexisting conditions identified as poor prognostic risk factors (2,10). These three cases, together with the case of Wong et al. (1), suggested that at least a subset of SARS adult patients can have a relativ...

Occupational injury mortality: New Mexico 1998-2002.

BACKGROUND The current study characterizes patterns of occupational injury fatalities in New Mexico for the 5-year period 1998-2002. METHODS The study applied methods developed by the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists/National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (CSTE/NIOSH) Occupational Health Indicator Work Group and compared the relative strength and weakness of two...

Commentary: Lithium in Drinking Water and Suicide Mortality

Military veteran mortality following a survived suicide attempt

BACKGROUND Suicide is a global public health problem. Recently in the U.S., much attention has been given to preventing suicide and other premature mortality in veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. A strong predictor of suicide is a past suicide attempt, and suicide attempters have multiple physical and mental comorbidities that put them at risk for additional causes of death. We exami...

Acute Kidney Injury Predicts Mortality after Charcoal Burning Suicide

A paucity of literature exists on risk factors for mortality in charcoal burning suicide. In this observational study, we analyzed the data of 126 patients with charcoal burning suicide that seen between 2002 and 2013. Patients were grouped according to status of renal damage as acute kidney injury (N = 49) or non-acute kidney injury (N = 77). It was found that patients with acute kidney injury...