A Victim of an Epidemic of Possession Syndrome

مروری بر بیماری سندرم حاد تنفسی (SARS)

Severe Acute Respirators;apos Syndrome (SARS), an emerging infectious disease first reported from the Chinese province of Guangdong, has already caused one worldwide outbreak. The syndrome spread across the globe by travelers. The etiologic agent was unknown at the beginning, but because of the rapid spread of the disease, an infectious agent with high transmission potency was suspected. Later ...

An Epidemic of Possession in a School of South India

Possession by a spirit or demon or God is an age old phenomenon which is still being reported from many countries all over the world. Possession syndrome is defined as an episodic disruption of behavior dur ing which it is presumed tha t the subject 's personality has been replaced by that of a spirit or God (Wintrob, 1973 ; Wijesinghe et al., 1976). I ts manifestations, purpose and consequence...

OCCURRENCE OF REPEATED FETAL DEATHS AND A SON WITH SEVERE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL RETARDATION AMONG PROGENIES OF AN IRANIAN CHEMICAL WARFARE VICTIM

هنگامی که در مورد سندرم کارپال تانل مورد پرسش واقع میشوید

Carpal tunnel syndrome is known as an Industrial new epidemic. In many of jobs, the same motions of hand are repeated thousands of times a day.  Each day the number of people with the syndrome is increasing. Clerks, workers in food preparation and packaging, and secretaries of large supermarkets have a high risk for suffering from this syndrome. In fact, all people who flex and extend their wri...

Investigating the link between gun possession and gun assault.

OBJECTIVES We investigated the possible relationship between being shot in an assault and possession of a gun at the time. METHODS We enrolled 677 case participants that had been shot in an assault and 684 population-based control participants within Philadelphia, PA, from 2003 to 2006. We adjusted odds ratios for confounding variables. RESULTS After adjustment, individuals in possession of...