How health is defined and assessed is a priority concern for Indigenous peoples due to considerable health risks faced from environmental impacts to homelands, and because what is "at risk" is often determined without their input or approval. Many health assessments by government agencies, industry, and researchers from outside the communities fail to include Indigenous definitions of health an...

GEORGE VAUGHAN, aet. 36, whose occupation is that of an extra-tide waiter at the Custom House, in the month of July last, while making a sudden exertion with Ihis right arm, felt (as he expressed it) something snap below the collar bone, attended with a slight degree of pain. In a day or two afterwards, he perceived a small tumor on the fore part of the chest, about an inch and a half below the...

BACKGROUND Despite the decline in childhood caries prevalence, seen particularly in 1980s, in recent years there have been reports that the declining trend has stopped or even reversed in some countries. The aim of the study was to analyse data from previous epidemiological studies on early childhood caries in the Czech Republic, conduct a secondary analysis of trend in dental caries prevalence...

BACKGROUND The mortality rate from cardiovascular disease (CVD) among young adults has declined less than that in the older population, raising concerns about the increasing prevalence of obesity-related conditions including hypercholesterolemia in the younger population. We investigated the age-standardized mean levels of serum cholesterols and the prevalence, awareness, treatment and control ...

On hehalf of the Wisconsin Mental Heallh Task Force, I am wriling 10 express the mixed emotional reaction experienced when reading the article "Ne\\ Pathways for Psychosocial Occupational Therapists" hy Sally Price (AJOT, June 1993, pp. 557-559). We were excited to see an arlicle [hat seemed to address the same issues that caused the development of our task force, hur as those in attendance rea...

BACKGROUND The effects of natural environmental factors upon health, documented in Minnesota, support the proposition of Bratislava's champions of the cosmos and of the biological week, gauged via circaseptan rhythms by the late Ladislav Dérer, whose "macro-rhythm" lasted "most frequently about 6 days". MAIN PURPOSE To introduce 7-day monitoring of blood pressure and heart rate into routine p...

The apolipoprotein(a) (apo[a]) gene encodes a protein component of lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] whose plasma levels vary widely among individuals. Hyper-Lp(a)-emia constitutes a risk factor for thromboembolic disease. We previously subclassified the apo(a) gene into four allelic types (A-D) by polymorphisms in the 5'-flanking region. To elucidate whether these polymorphisms affect the expression of a...

Palaeomagnetic methods of analysis have largely been concentrated on distinguishing between the relatively hard and soft components which make up the natural remanent magnetization (NRM) of sedimentary rocks. Ihis has been because of the widespread beliefthat, in general, the hard cornponents are primary in origin whule the soft components are secondary, having been acquired a long time afler d...

Biotin-binding IgG (B-IgG) in human sera was quantified using previously developed F(ab')(2)anti-human IgG-coated multiwell microplates (Muratsugu M. et al., 2003, Biol. Pharm. Bull., 26, 1605--1608). The levels of B-IgG in sera, however, were higher than those we predicted. In this study, we modified the assay using F(ab')2anti-human IgG-coated multiwell microplates and successfully quantified...