A ny new medication or therapy that has been approved for market authorization after extensive tests and trials is supposed to be efficient and, more importantly, safe. Yet, drug safety is not guaranteed: Many medications can still cause unexpected side effects that only come to light after approval. One of the worst examples is thalidomide, which caused severe birth defects and malformations i...

BACKGROUND Screening and timely treatment of gestational hyperglycaemia (GH) is proved to be beneficial and improves maternal and foetal health outcomes. To understand screening practices, we explored the knowledge and perceptions of doctors working in public health facilities in Bangalore, India. We also studied participation factors by examining whether undergoing glucose estimation tests aff...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to examine the risk of uncontrolled chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) among patients receiving low emetogenic chemotherapy (LEC) with and without granisetron injection as the primary prophylaxis in addition to dexamethasone and metochlopramide. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a single-centre, prospective cohort study. A total of 96 patients...

OBJECTIVE In this study, we investigated the effects of mild motion sickness and sopite syndrome on multitasking cognitive performance. BACKGROUND Despite knowledge on general motion sickness, little is known about the effect of motion sickness and sopite syndrome on multitasking cognitive performance. Specifically, there is a gap in existing knowledge in the gray area of mild motion sickness...

An adequate approach to sickness absence can reduce school dropout which is a major problem in Intermediate Vocational Education (IVE). This practice-based study explores the sickness absence reasons and factors influencing reporting the sickness, from a student's perspective. Semistructured interviews were held until saturation. Data were collected and analysed by a multidisciplinary research ...

In an automated vehicle, the driver becomes a passenger. It is said that the driver seldom gets motion sickness or carsickness compared to passengers. This suggests that motion sickness could be a problem in highly automated vehicles. The present paper will discuss motion sickness in automated driving, including countermeasures using a new vehicle control method. Topics / Automated driving, Car...

OBJECTIVES To analyze the association between changes in perceived physical and psychosocial working conditions and change of sickness absence days in younger and older (< 50 and ≥ 50 years) food industry employees. METHODS This was a follow up study of 679 employees, who completed working conditions survey questionnaires in 2005 and 2009 and for whom the requisite sickness absence data were ...

Photoinhibition of photosynthesis and its recovery was investigated in the laboratory and in the field with fluorescence and oxygen measuring devices. Photosynthetic efficiency measured at non-saturating fluence rates and the ratio of variable fluorescence to maximal fluorescence (FJF,) showed an approximately inverse course compared to the fluence rate of daylight measured continuously during ...

BACKGROUND One of the most important issues in morning report sessions is the number of patients. The aim of this study was to investigate and compare the number of cases reported in the morning report sessions in terms of case-based and conventional methods from the perspective of pediatric residents of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. METHODS The present study was conducted on 24 ped...

PURPOSE To investigate associations between a wide variety of psychosocial work conditions and sickness absence in a medium-sized company. METHODS Prospective cohort study of 395 employees working in an insurance office. Self-reported psychosocial work conditions were measured by questionnaire in January 2002 and linked to registered sickness absence in the period January 2002 to December 200...