Pediatric medicine that spans from the perinatal period through adolescence is a field in its own right, as it requires knowledge about early growth and development that are not present in adult medicine. Indeed, it is during these crucial years that adult health and wellbeing are being carved. This statement is supported by epidemiological studies and meta-analyses indicating that many adult d...

OBJECTIVE To document the ability of public health laboratories to respond to radiological emergencies. METHODS The Association of Public Health Laboratories developed, distributed, and analyzed two separate surveys of public health laboratories representing the 50 US states and major nonstate jurisdictions. The 2009 All-Hazards Laboratory Preparedness Survey examined overall laboratory capab...

This study was an add-on project to the National Air Emissions Monitoring Study (NAEMS) and focused on comprehensive measurement of odor emissions. Odor emissions from two animal species (dairy and swine) from four sites with nine barns/rooms (two dairy barns in Wisconsin, two dairy barns and two swine rooms in Indiana, and three swine barns in Iowa) during four cycles (13-week periods) were me...

What: Atmospheric scientists and wind industry participants defined priorities for research in wind resource characterization to enable the expansion of wind power. When: 14–16 January 2008 Where: Broomfield, Colorado s energy demand increases, the need to reach beyond traditional hydrocarbon-based sources of power is becoming ever clearer and is in tandem with a compelling need to reduce emiss...

BACKGROUND Formaldehyde is extensively used for preservation of cadavers in departments of anatomy. However, it is a noxious chemical which may cause serious health problems. OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of exposure of medical students to formaldehyde at the Department of Anatomy, Niger Delta University, Nigeria. METHODS In a questionnaire-based study, 93 second-year medical students were...

Characteristics of 94 veterinary surgeons associated with delivering preventive herd-level strategies to control mastitis, lameness and Johne's disease were investigated using two multinomial models. The response variables were 'Gold Standard Monitoring' (including on-going data analysis, risk assessments and laboratory testing), and a lower level of involvement called 'Regular Control Advice'....

OBJECTIVE Socioeconomic differences in sickness absence (SA) are well established among older employees but poorly understood among the young. Our aim was to examine 12-year trends in educational differences in SA among young female and male employees, and to assess the magnitude of the differences. DESIGN We examined annual SA spells. The data were obtained from the employer's registers and ...

The discovery of several new blood-group systems within recent years and the development of new techniques for the detection of antibodies have shown that the time-honoured methods for the direct matching of blood preparatory to transfusion are inadequate and may be dangerously fallacious. Tests in an albumin medium and the use of the indirect Coombs test are the most reliable methods so far de...

Background Tuberculosis (TB) is a major cause of death in Ethiopia. One of the main barriers for TB control is the lack of access to health services. Methods We evaluated a diagnostic and treatment service for TB based on the health extension workers (HEW) of the Ethiopian Health Extension Programme in Sidama Zone, with 3.5 million population. We added the services to the HEW routines and eva...

This paper discusses the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) risk assessment of 1,3-butadiene. The assessment focuses on estimation of increased cancer risk to populations living near industrial sources of 1,3-butadiene emissions rather than occupationally exposed populations. Incremental cancer risk estimates based on extrapolation from laboratory animal data are presented. Pharmacokinetic...