Environmental impact from Riga city landfill, Latvia

Prostitution in Riga, Latvia--a socio-medical matter of concern.

OBJECTIVES To study the background and the working and socio-economic conditions, and the prevalence of some sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), among street and sex club female Latvian prostitutes. STUDY DESIGN Structured in-depth interviews, as well as clinical examination and laboratory tests for gonorrhea, syphilis, bacterial vaginosis, trichomoniasis, ectoparasites and HIV-infections. ...

Dental disease and dietary isotopes of individuals from St Gertrude Church cemetery, Riga, Latvia

This research explores oral health indicators and stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data to explore diet, and differences in diet, between people buried in the four different contexts of the St Gertrude Church cemetery (15th- 17th centuries AD): the general cemetery, two mass graves, and a collective mass burial pit within the general cemetery. The main aim is to assess whether people buried i...

COST CM 1104 “ Reducible Oxides ” WG 4 meeting April 10 - 11 , 2014 Riga , Latvia

Radiation-modified albumin in type 2 diabetic patients

1 Department of Chemistry and Geography, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Daugavpils University, Daugavpils, Latvia 2 Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health, Riga Stradins University, Riga, Latvia 3 Department of Biological and Medical Physics, V.N. Karazin Kharkov National University, Kharkov, Ukraine 4 Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Latvia University, Rig...

Quantity and quality analysis of dental prosthodontics among retirement age residents from nursing homes in different regions of Latvia and retirement age patients from dental clinic in Riga.

INTRODUCTION The quality of life is closely related with condition of oral health, influence of subjective factors on the whole human body and patients perception of their oral health. In spite of the fact that the most part of Latvian retirement age residents use low-quality dentures and assess them satisfactory, these patients often have problems associated with quality of dentures. The aim o...