BACKGROUND To assess the status of occupational hazards and their prevention among the practicing dentists in Chandigarh city, India. MATERIALS AND METHODS A closed-ended questionnaire was prepared to record demographic status, types of occupational hazards encountered, and status of measures used for their prevention. A total 113 out of 130 dentists completed the questionnaire and the respon...

The goal of this study was to identify supracondylar fracture patterns that were predictive of adverse events and poor outcomes. The study consisted of a retrospective review of patients admitted for surgical treatment of a supracondylar humerus fracture between June 2008 and August 2010. Preoperative radiographs were assessed based on appearance (simple vs oblique vs comminuted), coronal plane...

Antiretroviral therapy can be used in 3 ways to prevent the sexual transmission of HIV infection: (1) to reduce an infected person's viral burden below a critical threshold; (2) as preexposure prophylaxis for people with persistent high-risk be-havior(s); and (3) as postexposure pro-phylaxis (PEP) to be used after occupational needlesticks or sexual or other nonoccupational risks [1]. The first...

Occupational safety is a critical concern for disease prevention and control at healthcare facilities. Medical waste handlers, in particular, are those most exposed to occupational hazards among workers. Therefore, this cross-sectional study was conducted evaluate practices associated factors handlers four public hospitals, southwest Ethiopia from 15 March 30 May 2022. The included 203 handlers...

BACKGROUND In the recent past, the Russian Federation has seen a considerable increase in HIV caseload. A high level committee was formed to assess the status of dental infection control and safety (IC&S) in Russia. This article is one of the outcomes to assess the status of IC&S and is the research of a doctoral student (PhD) in public health. PURPOSE To assess needs in Dental Infection Cont...

1 is a poignant reminder to medical students and physicians of the risks of exposure to occupational hazards that are inherent to our profession. The risks of occupational exposure to potential hazards are high in the health care industry; it is an industry with a poor health and safety record, in which little attention has been paid to training its members in minimizing risks. The risk of expo...

Bacteriophages were discovered almost a century ago. With the advent of antibiotics, the use of bacteriophages for treatment of infections fell out of favor in Western medicine. In light of the rise of antibiotic resistance, phages and their products (lysins) are rediscovered as antibacterial bioagents. This overview summarizes principles of phage biology and their translation for therapeutic a...

BACKGROUND Challenges exist regarding TB infection control and TB in hospital-based healthcare workers in South Africa. However, few studies report on TB in non-hospital based healthcare workers such as primary or community healthcare workers. Our objectives were to investigate the implementation of TB infection control measures at primary healthcare facilities, the smear positive TB incidence ...

introduction: needle stick injuries (nsi) are major occupational hazards for health care workers. objectives: this study aimed to determine the epidemiology of needle sticks and sharp injuries among nurses of an iranian teaching hospital. materials and methods: this descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in 2009 on 328 nurses in a health center in tehran. stratified random samples were...

Mycological and mycotoxicological analysis of many feedingstuffs and complete mashes for different animal species and categories have showen that the feed safety problem has been present for years. It is approved that mouldy feed can contain various mycotoxins, but among them in our conditions the most investigated are aflatoxins, ochratoxins, zearalenone and some trichotecenes. Based on labora...