To cite: di Summa PG, Yvon A, Raffoul W, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2014-204779 DESCRIPTION A 34-year-old man, right-handed, smoker, presented to A&E with a 2-month history of pain, numbness and cold sensitivity in the fourth and fifth digits of his right hand. He had not suffered from any recent trauma; his usual activity was carpentr...

For many, climate change is no longer recognized as the primary cause of cultural changes in the Near East. Instead, human landscape degradation, population growth, socioeconomic adjustments, and conflict have been proposed as the mechanisms that shaped the Neolithic Revolution. However, as Bar-Yosef noted, even if there is chronological correlation between climate changes and cultural developm...

BACKGROUND Despite the advances in medical therapy and technology, the prognosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) remains poor and the need for disease prevention based on identifying the risk factors becomes mandatory. Occupational and environmental exposures were studied in several countries and found to play important role in the disease development. However, in Egypt, a little attenti...

While fabrication technologies have been in use in industry for several decades, expiring patents have recently allowed the technology to spill over to technology-enthusiastic “makers”. The big question now is whether the technology will further progress towards consumers, which would allow the technology to scale from hundreds of thousands of users to hundreds of millions of users. Such a tran...

INTRODUCTION Occupational lung diseases form an important part of clinical medicine. Exposure to various chemicals or toxins which are manufactured or processed in industries are lethal for the workers in industries. Although these chemicals at workplace are known to invariably affect all body systems, lungs are most vulnerable to airborne hazards which are caused due to exposure to wood dust i...

The volume of CCA treated wood being disposed of in landfills is growing at an alarming rate. In order to reduce the demand on landfills and timber harvest, more environmentally responsible alternatives for spent CCA treated wood have to be addressed. The objective of this study was to determine feasible products that can be produced from CCA treated wood. Several products were produced from CC...

background: despite the advances in medical therapy and technology, the prognosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (ipf) remains poor and the need for disease prevention based on identifying the risk factors becomes mandatory. occupational and environmental exposures were studied in several countries and found to play important role in the disease development. however, in egypt, a little attent...

This study purposely sought to investigate resources used in the provision of services adolescents with emotional and behavioural disorders. The adopted a case design targeting 250 rehabilitees, 30 rehabilitators, 1 manager. lottery method select sample size 50% target population. comprised 125 15 manager making total 141 respondents. semi-structured interview guide for manager, questionnaires ...

introduction: today, the prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (msds) is considered as a vital issue and one of the highest national priorities. this study was conducted with the aim of evaluating occupational postures and the prevalence of msds among porcelain industry workers of the city of rasht, iran. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was done in 2015 on 66 wo...

One of the most difficult professions in history, sponge diving/fishing was widely practiced Mediterranean World 19th and 20th century by Turkish, Greek, Italian North African divers. Natural sea sponges are main materials profession which extends from here to America mid-20th century. Our earliest data indicate that sponge, is well known many ancient texts used times, especially cleaning, medi...