Rita Shah, MD; Caroline Quach, MD, MSc, FRCPC; Nina Kohn, MBA, MA; Lorry Rubin, MD; Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, New Hyde Park, NY; Quebec Institute of Public Health, Montreal, QC, Canada; Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, North Shore-LIJ Health System, Manhasset, NY; Pediatrics, Hofstra N...

Heavy vehicles exiting (or entering) a tunnel at high speed under strong crosswind is particularly critical condition since the aerodynamic load changes drastically, greatly affecting lateral stability of vehicle. Often, active control systems (active suspensions, front steering, etc.) and infrastructure elements (e.g., wind fences) are proposed to reduce induced risks. To help design these dev...

AT the Cambridge Military Hospital in the past eighteen months there have been three cases of traumatic rupture of the spleen. Two cases were associated with severe trauma: (a) a close range blank cartridge wound splitting the splenic substance, and (b) a heavy blow with a milk bottle delivered by an irate wife-both causing severe bruising of the skin and muscles. The third case was due to a gl...

A 48-year-old lorry driver presented with 3 weeks of blurred vision, pain and diplopia. There was a right upper lid ptosis with some restriction of eye movements. A CT revealed an enlarged lacrimal gland and lacrimal gland biopsy showed IgG4-positive plasma cells. The patient responded to oral prednisolone and fully recovered. As a condition which mimics a number of diseases, an IgG4-related di...

Automobile crashes are the leading cause of death for those aged 3 to 33, with 43,005 (118 per day) Americans killed in 2002 alone. Seat belt use reduces the risk of serious injury in an accident, and refraining from using a cell phone while driving reduces the risk of an accident. Cell phone use while driving increases accident rates, and leads to 2,600 U.S. fatalities each year. An active pro...

As a result of the lorry explosion on the Fengate Industrial Estate, Peterborough on 22nd March 1989, 82 casualties arrived at Peterborough District Hospital. Despite the fact that casualties arrived at the A&E Department in large numbers before the Major Accident Plan could be implemented, all of the casualties had been assessed and either admitted or sent home within 3 h of the explosion. In ...

The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of mechanic village on selected soil physico-chemical properties and heavy metals content in Abakaliki Southeastern Nigeria. Five replicate samples were collected from arable land (Control), lorry automobile repair site (Lorry), motorcycle site,(motorcycle) car bus site(car bus), spare parts market (spare parts). These taken laboratory for determin...

results mean age was 41.6 ± 9.2 for the military truck drivers and 43.4 ± 10.9 for commercial truck drivers (p > 0.05). no significant difference between military and commercial drivers was found in terms of driving experience, number of mvcs, binocular va, frequency of color vision defects and cs scores. in contrast, the last ocular examination was significantly earlier in military drivers tha...