introduction: medical professionals are often under the influence of stress due to the responsibility of providing patients with comfort and care.  working conditions in hospitals create much stress and anxiety and can affect the health of staff, especially the nurses.  this study was designed to investigate the job stressors of nursing personnel in the emergency wards of zahedans’ hospitals du...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate in scientific literature the more frequent work injuries among the occupational categories examined (construction workers, healthcare workers, night workers and shift work, drivers) and to identify occupational stressors that increase the risk of injury. MATERIALS AND METHODS The research was conducted through review of the scientific literature...

A meta-analysis was conducted to summarize and integrate the literature on the cognitive functioning of older adults with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We hypothesized that those with PTSD would exhibit worse performance in each of the cognitive domains studied when compared to older adults without PTSD. Major databases were queried and eleven articles met criteria for review. As predic...

The 2013 Rostock Symposium on Systems Biology and Bioinformatics in Aging Research was again dedicated to dissecting the aging process using in silico means. A particular focus was on ontologies, because these are a key technology to systematically integrate heterogeneous information about the aging process. Related topics were databases and data integration. Other talks tackled modeling issues...