Physicians confront the nuclear peril.

The effect of training on the management of nuclear disasters by emergency department nurses and physicians

Objective: On account of the widespread use of nuclear energy in different fields, nuclear accidents and disasters have been on a rise. Thus, it is crucial for medical staff especially emergency department personnel to be aware of the nature of these accidents. This study was designed to evaluate the effect of training on the knowledge of physicians and nurses regarding nuclear...

The Peril of Vehemence

Peril in the pink

awareness of the plight of this unique habitat. The Swiss photographer, Thomas Marent, has spent his adult life seeking out the spectacular beauty of the most striking plants and creatures. Tackling everything from poor light to predatory animals, biting insects, invisible diseases and intense humidity, Marent has ventured through rainforests from Costa Rica and Peru to Borneo, Sulawesi and Aus...

Cosmic strings confront COBE

We investigate large-angle anisotropies in the cosmic microwave radiation background which are induced by cosmic strings. We numerically evolve a string network from a redshift Z=100 to the present day and we use this data to generate a full-sky temperature map using sophisticated Green's function methods. Based on a limited number of realizations, we have compared the results of our simulation...

Paving Paradise: The Peril of Impervious Surfaces

Background: Fibromatosis-like metaplastic carcinoma is a newly described metaplastic breast tumor, literature on which is still evolving. Case presentation: A 77-year-old lady presented with a 2 × 2 cm mass with irregular margins in the upper and outer quadrant of left breast. Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) from the lump was inconclusive. A lumpectomy was performed and sent for frozen s...