*International Ice Hockey Federation, Zurich, Switzerland; †Neurosurgery Service & Sports Medicine Service, Emerson Hospital, Concord, Massachusetts, and National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.; ‡FIFA Medical Research and Assessment Center (F-MARC), and Schulthess Clinic, Zurich, Switzerland; §FIFA Medical Research and Assessment Center (F-MA...

Enhanced surveillance for infectious disease events, with accelerated routine reporting and daily supplementary reports, was undertaken during the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. We evaluated the surveillance outputs, reporting intervals and detection of World Cup-relevant events for the enhanced system. Outbreak numbers for measles, Norovirus and Campylobacter were significantly higher than in...

The 18th FIFA Soccer World Cup 2006 in Germany enthused millions of people worldwide, but only little is known about the association of such an event with cardiovascular events. Modest physical activity is known to reduce the cardiovascular risk significantly. On the other hand, vigorous physical activity and emotional strain increase the cardiovascular risk and the incidence of cardiovascular ...

BACKGROUND Although most experts agree that preparticipation screening is important to prevent sudden cardiac death in sport, only a few reports have been published on the feasibility of its practical implementation. METHODS The football associations participating in the U-17 and U-20 Women's World Cups 2010 were asked to perform a standardised precompetition medical assessment (PCMA) of thei...

purpose t1wi (t1 weighted image) was acquired in order to grade bone fusion following the studies by fifa (federation internationale de football associations). research using images other than t1wi has not been reported. the aim of this study is to evaluate the grade of epiphyseal fusion by t2* weighted images (t2*wi) and to investigate new findings on t2*wi as compared with t1wi. methods a tot...

Résumé : L'article explique comment les médias internationaux ont dépeint le pays hôte lors de trois Coupes du Monde la FIFA, Afrique Sud 2010, Brésil 2014 et Russie 2018. La recherche a analysé 5085 articles produits par sept quatre au cours des événements en utilisant une analyse Frames. Il vise à comprendre ces pays, similitudes dans couverture transformation période. Les présentent étude ca...

Detecting the presence of over-age players in age-related tournaments has been a difficult challenge for many sports organisations. ‘‘Age-doping’’ is a form of cheating that involves falsification of information about the age of a player to gain advantage in the sport. This clearly contradicts the ethics of sport and fair play. Until now, the age of competitors has generally been proven by offi...

The insecticide susceptibility status of one of the Background: Anopheles funestus, main malaria vectors in the Afrotropical regions, remains under-studied due to the difficulty of working with this mosquito species. Collecting their larvae in natural breeding sites, rearing and maintaining them in normal laboratory conditions have been a difficult task. Forced-egg laying technique has been a v...