Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer occurring in females with an estimated burden of 1.38 million (23%) new cases worldwide, in 2008 (692,200 and 691,300 cases in developed and developing countries, respectively) (Ferlay et al., 2010) and ranks second most common cancer overall. About 458,400 deaths were projected because of breast cancer from which 60% of the deaths were repo...

The Great Lakes Center of Excellence in Environmental Health (GLCEEH), an innovative capacity-building component of the University of Illinois, performs health hazard evaluations in collaboration with the Illinois Department of Public Health and local health departments. GLCEEH has provided state and local health departments with faculty, industrial-hygiene expertise, and research expertise to ...

BACKGROUND The Logistics Management Institute initially developed a medical cost-avoidance model (MCAM) to estimate the costs associated with the failure to eliminate or control health hazards of army materiel systems during 1997. METHODS Presented is an updated version of the MCAM that uses cost factors for individual health hazard categories. The earlier MCAM calculated army materiel acquis...

Computer keyboards of a teaching laboratory were examined and bacteria isolated from computer keyboards. The subsequent tests done for the bacterial isolates: methyl red, vogus proskaur, citrate utilization, urease TSI. This study paves way to look at an inanimate object like keyboard as potential reservoir bacteria.