The endocrine-disrupting equivalents in effluents from three chemical industry wastewater treatment systems in the vicinity of Yangtze River were determined by several transactivation reporter gene assays. Transient transfections of African green monkey kidney cell line (CV-1) were used to determine the estrogenic, anti-androgenic and anti-thyroid equivalents in the effluents. Organic extracts ...

We are writing because we have serious concerns about the statistical analyses and data interpretation reported by Welfare, Little, Pereira, and Seymour. The authors state in the Abstract, “Part 1: There was a 69 +/32% (F = 77, P < 0.001) increase in venom discharge after vinegar was applied compared to post electrical stimulation.” The recovery of venom protein from a membrane after the applic...

The information on the work histories of discharged schizophrenic patients presented in this paper was collected as part of a wider study of the effects of family relationships on the course of the illness in patients with schizophrenia (Brown, Monck, Carstairs, and Wing, 1962). An important detail of the design enabled a common defect of follow-up studies to be partly overcome; the clinical co...

Transferring patients from the intensive care unit (ICU) to a general ward is commonly associated with error and adverse events, and is one of the most challenging and high-risk transitions of care. Patients discharged from ICUs often require sustained intensive multi-disciplinary team input, part of which can be provided by nurse or clinician-led outreach teams. Unfortunately, due to a lack of...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Many patients recently discharged from an asthma admission do not fill discharge prescriptions. If unable to adhere to a discharge plan, patients with asthma are at risk for re-presentation to care. We sought to increase the proportion of patients discharged from an asthma admission in possession of their medications (meds in hand) from a baseline of 0% to >75%. METH...

PURPOSE To evaluate the long-term effects of voice therapy on the life quality of teachers who were discharged or abandoned the voice therapy for dysphonia. METHODS This was a longitudinal study based on analysis of assessments with teachers of municipal schools in Belo Horizonte, who were referred to voice therapy and were discharged or abandoned the speech-language therapy for more than six...

BACKGROUND The study prospectively assessed the functional impairments and rehabilitation needs of Africans admitted to a regional trauma center. It also acts as a pilot study to demonstrate the practical use of the Language Independent Functional Evaluation (L.I.F.E.) software in an acute hospital setting. METHODS A 5 page questionnaire was used to gather demographic data (age, sex, medical ...

A study of newborn thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) levels was undertaken to determine whether a quantitative relationship exists between TSH values obtained between the 12th to 24th hours of life and the 48th to 72nd hours of life. The study was designed to: (a) measure TSH levels in full term newborns between the 12th - 24th hours of life, (b) measure TSH levels in the same set of newborns a...

LDNGTERM illness tests severely the ability of patients and families to look after themselves and of communities to supply the necessary therapeutic and supportive services. Something is known about how patients are cared for in hospitals but much less about how they fare when they are discharged, often to fend for themselves. In order to gain some insight into the nature and magnitude of this ...

BACKGROUND Structured Professional Judgement (SPJ) is routinely administered in mental health and criminal justice settings but cannot identify violence risk above moderate accuracy. There is no current evidence that violence can be prevented using SPJ. This may be explained by routine application of predictive instead of causal statistical models when standardising SPJ instruments. METHODS W...