Despite advances in methods of detection and pharmacological therapies, the global burden of tuberculosis (TB) remains staggeringly high, with approximately one third of the world’s population estimated to be infected with the mycobacterium that causes TB.1 The explosive epidemic of TB has been particularly acute in the correctional institutions of the Russian Federation, where extraordinary le...

The prevention of self-harm and suicide in prisoners depends on good interaction between the individual prisoner and prison staff. Staff perceptions of prisoner self-harm are likely to be a crucial factor influencing this interaction. The aim of the present study was to determine correctional officers' perception of the causes and functions of self-harm, and the effects of incident severity and...

BACKGROUND In December 2014, China announced that only voluntarily donated organs from citizens would be used for transplantation after January 1, 2015. Many medical professionals worldwide believe that China has stopped using organs from death-row prisoners. DISCUSSION In the present article, we briefly review the historical development of organ procurement from death-row prisoners in China ...

Why do so many prisoners seek religious instruction and guidance while incarcerated [...]

BACKGROUND Early diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) is a major key for effective TB program. Evaluation of delay in diagnosis of smear positive TB is needed to evaluation of TB program situation in each country. The aim of this study was to evaluate of diagnosis delay in smear positive tuberculosis patients in Islamic Republic of Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cross sectional study, all smea...

AIM To compare rates of past reported traumatic brain injury (TBI) in a prisoner sample with those in a control group drawn from the same location of usual residence. METHOD The prisoner group comprised a consecutive sample of men (n = 200) received into custody and screened by face-to-face interview. The control group comprised men (n = 200) matched for location of usual residence screened b...

This paper has its origin in work done in a prisoner of war hospital camp in Siam. Under the prevailing condition of protein-starvation there the Van Slyke formulae for calculating urea clearance as a percentage of normal were found to be completely misleading. The only literature then available was a handbook of laboratory methods giving the bare routine of the test without indicating the sour...

Foreign bodies in the dentition of present day patients are frequently diagnosed. They are more rare in mediaeval and anthropological specimens. Rudolf Virchow, the doyen of pathology in Germany formed a huge collection of anthropological specimens in the 19th century. Among these specimens one skull from Tiflis (Tbilisi, Georgia) found its way into the collection of Virchow in 1881. The skull ...