Objective In light of recent outbreaks of pertussis, the ability of Florida Department of Health’s (FDOH) Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL) to detect emergent disease outbreaks was examined. Through a partnership with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), FDOH developed a syndromic surveillance system...

preterm birth means the birth before thirty seven week of pregnancy that causes a lot of complications for the baby. variety factors are suggested to be involved in disease. in this study, we decided to evaluate haptoglobin (hp) phenotypes association with clinical features of patients suffered from premature delivery to understand better the possible correlation of genetic and clinical feature...

This regression analysis studies of dumper drivers were conducted for an opencast mine located in one of mine of Jharia Coal field, Jharkhand, India. Statistical tools have been developed in the light of analylitical principles to see whether there is any role of some personal and impersonal factors in the occurrence of coal miners’ injuries. With the progress in exploitation of minerals, safet...

Submission of samples from the home allows screening for Chlamydia trachomatis without preceding professional assessment of clinical risk factors. Therefore, a validation of self-reportable information for use as selective screening criteria is needed. We asked a total of 1175 women and 1033 men who participated in an in-home sampling screening study to provide information on behavior and socio...

The study investigated the effect of different input selections on the performance of artificial neural networks in screening for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in Malaysian patients complaining of chest pain. We used hospital data to create neural networks with four input selections and used these to diagnose AMI. A 10-fold cross-validation and committee approach was used. All the neural ne...

Introduction. Fibrocystic disease of the male breast is uncommon. The presence of a spectrum of changes ranging from fibrocystic disease to duct papilloma to papillary carcinoma in the same patient renders the case a rarity and therefore reportable. Case Report. A case of intracystic papillary carcinoma of the male breast is presented. Discussion. The pathological, clinical, diagnostic, and the...

Background and Objective: The behavior of COVID-19, clinical symptoms, and mortality rate are not the same in different regions. Due to lack of knowledge about the cited issues, we aimed to investigate the clinical symptoms, case fatality rate, and some risk factors of COVID-19. Materials and Methods: This longitudinal study was started from the late February 2020 and lasted to the mid-July 20...