This article presents the circumstances of birth occupational medicine in interwar period Poland. The first regulations concerning preventive examinations young employees were created on basis Act July 2, 1924, work minors and women. act imposed an obligation business entities to carry out free medical for as ordered by labor inspector. examination underage was carried 1926. However, compliance...

This article examines the identity (re)work undertaken by junior doctors during doctors’ contract dispute of 2015–16 in National Health Service (NHS). A qualitative, longitudinal approach was used, consisting 31 interviews with 18 across two time periods. Findings show that strike represented a major threat to their professional identities, and action instigated significant for doctors. Further...

The press (books, newspapers, magazines, calendars, etc) in the Lithuanian language educated its readers extensively on prevention and treatment of infectious diseases early 20th century. However, frequent outbreaks various epidemics from 1900s to 1930s raises question whether this information really reached target audience, especially when, as folklore sources show, folk medicine was still hea...

The authors present a triptych of articles revealing various aspects Kremlin medicine, system Soviet healthcare designed exclusively for the political elites USSR and its associated countries communist parties, as well scientific cultural elite. second post deals with composition patients. Their own lists or "nomenclatures" institutionalized elites, circle friends USSR. reveal mechanism includi...

This report describes compiled data on wound patterns for casualties sustained by Special Operations Forces (SOF) of the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Arabian Peninsula during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The intent of this report is to provide information to the SOF Medic on the types of combat-related wounds that are most common in the ongoing Iraq war. During the period evaluated,...

This paper reviews the current use of self-regenerating pasture legumes in the farming systems of southern Europe. Annual legumes are mainly the base for the improvement of low quality native pastures in extensive farming systems. Traditional pasture legumes such as subterranean clovers and annual medics are the base plants of Mediterranean pastures, and are essential for pasture improvement of...

On the battlefield, a properly applied tourniquet can be an extremely effective means of controlling severe extremity wound hemorrhage. However, a great deal of confusion exists among soldiers, medics, and military medical officers on a number of tourniquet-related issues. What is an appropriate combat tourniquet? When is it appropriate to use a tourniquet? When and by whom should a tourniquet ...