Exposure to starch powder from both surgical and examination gloves can cause a number of undesirable reactions, which vary from well known allergy symptoms and upper respiratory-tract disorders to pleuritis, myocarditis, irritation of the central nervous system or even carcinoma or tuberculosis misdiagnosis. A well documented consequence of the use of starch powder in gloves is its capacity to...

The use of microwave is increasing day by day all over the world. Microwaves are used in mobile phones, microwave ovens, etc. Mobile or cellular phones are now an integral part of modern telecommunications. In many countries, over half the population use mobile or cellular phones and the market is growing rapidly. Researches are going on in various countries on the possible health effects of mi...

Stevenson, Bedford, Dolphin, Purrott, Lloyd, Hill, Hill, Gumpel, Williams, Scott, Ramsey, Bruckner, and Fearn (1973) reported that high chromosome aberration yields in lymphocytes were found in those patients treated with injections of 198Au or 90Y for rheumatoid conditions ofthe knee when radioactivity had leaked along the lymphatics to the inguinal lymph nodes. This leakage and the consequent...

results survival probabilities at different times were determined using the cox proportional hazards and a neural network with three nodes in the hidden layer; the ratios of standard errors with these two methods to the kaplan-meier method were 1.1593 and 1.0071, respectively, revealed a significant difference between cox and kaplan-meier (p < 0.05) and no significant difference between cox and...

background: kidney transplantation is the best alternative treatment for end-stage renal disease. several studies have been devoted to investigate predisposing factors of graft rejection. however, there is inconsistency between the results. the objective of the present study was to utilize an intuitive and robust approach for variable selection, random survival forests (rsf), and to identify im...

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HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of people work in welding, cutting and brazing. It is estimated that welders compose 1 to 2% of the U.S. working population, including a significant segment of the aging workforce. According to OSHA’s Christine Petitti, the most commonly used welding processes are: 1) Flux-cored arc welding (FCAW). This process uses an arc between a continuous filler metal electrode and th...

The postmortem room is a source of potential hazards to the health of forensic experts, pathologists and mortuary technicians. Infectious pathogens in cadavers tha mycobacterium tuberculosis, HBV, HCV, HIV and prions that cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathies such as Creutzfeldt syndrome (GSS). This review focuses specif infected patients.