SummaryBackground Operating rooms (ORs) have strict requirements regarding cleanliness. While existing standards concerning the ventilation and staff guidelines are theoretically sufficient to subvert threats posed by micro-organisms within room, there exist potential sources of contamination due human activity around area. Studies exploring this influence on distribution micr...

Elucidating the mechanisms that modulate calcium channels via opioid receptor activation is fundamental to our understanding of both pain perception and how opioids modulate pain. Neuronal voltage-gated N-type calcium channels (Cav2.2) are inhibited by activation of G protein–coupled opioid receptors (ORs). However, inhibition of R-type (Cav2.3) channels by mor k-ORs is poorly defined and has n...

INTRODUCTION Programs aimed at reducing the burden of diarrhea among children under-five in low-resource settings typically allocate resources to training community-level health workers, but studies have suggested that provider knowledge does not necessarily translate into adequate practice. A diarrhea management program implemented in Bihar, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, India trained private sec...

CONTEXT Despite the frequent occurrence of depressive symptoms among older adults, especially women, little is known about the long-term course of late-life depressive symptoms. OBJECTIVE To characterize the natural course of depressive symptoms among older women (from the young old to the oldest old) followed up for almost 20 years. DESIGN Using latent-class growth-curve analysis, we analy...

Diarrhoea complicates over half of admissions to hospital with Background severe acute malnutrition (SAM). World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for the management of dehydration recommend the use of oral rehydration with ReSoMal (an oral rehydration solution (ORS) for SAM), which has lower sodium (45mmols/l) and higher potassium (40mmols/l) content than old WHO ORS. The composition of ReS...

New international regulations aimed at decarbonizing maritime transportation are positively contributing to attention being paid the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a ship fuel. Scaling up LNG-fueled ships is highly dependent on safe bunkering operations, particularly during simultaneous operations (SIMOPs); therefore, performing quantitative risk assessment (QRA) either mandated or recom...

Ovarian Remnant syndrome (ORS) is the presence of residual ovarian tissue after an oophorectomy was performed whether associated with a hysterectomy or not. We report case 39-year-old woman past surgical history total abdominal and left salpingo-oophorectomy indication placenta accreta incidentally discovered during caesarian section. The patient presented pelvic pain diagnosed ORS. She success...

BACKGROUND Diarrheal disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children under five. Although oral rehydration solution (ORS) has tremendous therapeutic benefits, coverage of and demand for this product have remained low in many developing countries. This study surveyed caregivers and health care providers in India and Kenya to gather information about perceptions and use of va...

background the sitting position, rather than squatting, during defecation has been hypothesized to be a risk factor for colorectal cancer (crc). methods we conducted a case-control study to test this hypothesis. a total of 100 crc cases from two hospitals in iran and 100 control subjects, selected from the coronary care unit (ccu) of those same hospitals were selected for this study. we adminis...