Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever is a fatal viral disease that occurs in some parts of Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle-East. Primarily it is a zoonosis but can be seen sporadically in humans. Recently outbreaks have been reported from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Iran. In this retrospective study, we evaluated the efficacy of oral Ribavirin in the...

The "duty to protect" third parties, first imposed by the Tarasoff case, has concerned and perplexed clinicians. A series of guidelines is offered for reducing therapist exposure to suit, based on expert witness experience in a number of cases raising this form of tort liability. These guidelines concern the assessment and management of risk, the documentation of information and activities, the...

In adults fatal and near-fatal asthma have similar clinical characteristics. Therefore, near-fatal asthma in adults can be used as a model for fatal asthma. A nationwide study on fatal and near-fatal asthma in children <16 yrs was performed in order to assess whether, as in adults, near-fatal asthma can be used as a model for fatal asthma. From 1996 to 1998, all paediatric hospitals and paediat...

56 percutaneous nephrostomies were evaluated in 50 patients, with a malignant underlying factor in 32 and benign conditions in 24. The clinical indication was decompression for supravesical obstruction with or without azotemia in the majority of cases. Less common indications were management of ureteral fistula, ureteral stricture dilatation, and pelvic stone extraction. Serious complicati...

No tort reform has more potential to improve the quality of medical care and to reduce the frequency of patient injuries than exclusive hospital enterprise liability. Hospital enterprise liability would make hospitals liable for all patient injuries occurring in the hospital that are the product of provider negligence, regardless of the independent contractor status of the providers. In its “ex...

bankruptcy and tort; two apparently distinct branches of law, but, in fact, some technical and theoretical issues arise from their interaction. these include, among others, the boundaries between personal rights of the victim to damages, exclusively allocated to the bankrupt, and the financial damages , which belong to the creditors ; the problems resulting from the chronological order of the b...

it is an autosomal recessive, and occasionally autosomal dominant mutant extremely rare disorder with only 100 reported case in literature. this fatal disorder occur in both sexes and all races. in most circumstances the newborn die soon after birth also it is known as harlequin fetus, alligator baby or keratosis diffusa fatalis. because of its rarity, we report 2 cases of this disorder, here.

BACKGROUND The National Avian Influenza Surveillance (NAIS) system detected human H5N1 cases in Thailand from 2004-2006. Using NAIS data, we identified risk factors for death among H5N1 cases and described differences between H5N1 and human (seasonal) influenza cases. METHODS AND FINDINGS NAIS identified 11,641 suspect H5N1 cases (e.g. persons with fever and respiratory symptoms or pneumonia,...