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Outlook Magazine, Fall 2004

Outlook Magazine

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Tetanus Experience In A Public Hospital In Western Saudi Arabia, Eman H. Lubbad, Adil M. Khazindar, Muhammad Ayyub

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: Tetanus although rare, has not been eradicated and continues to present from time to time. Early diagnosis and management may be life saving. This study aims to evaluate all patients admitted with the clinical diagnosis of tetanus in King Abdul-Aziz Hospital Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over the last 3 years. METHODS: All patients admitted with the clinical diagnosis of Tetanus in King Abdul-Aziz Hospital and Oncology Center from January 2000 through to December 2002 were retrospectively reviewed and data was analyzed to determine the demographic features, clinical details, management, and outcome of treatment. RESULTS: A total of 11 …

Acute Hepatic Failure In A Case Of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Sali̇h Cesur, Pervi̇n Topçuoğlu, Ozan Aşik, Serhat Bi̇rengel, Muhi̇t Özcan

Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences

SUR^1, Pervin TOPÇUOĞLU^2, Ozan AŞIK^3, Serhat BİRENGEL^3 ,Muhit ÖZCAN^2 ^1Refik Saydam Hygiene Center Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Ankara – Turkey ^2 Department of Hematology, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara University, Ankara - Turkey ^3 Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Bacteriology, Faculty of Medicine, Ankara University, Ankara - Turkey

Too Strange To Be Just Fiction: Legal Lessons From A Bioterrorist Simulation, The Case Of Topoff 2, John D. Blum

Faculty Publications & Other Works

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Knowledge Of Hiv/Aids And Attitudes About Condom Use Among Nigerian University Students, Ugonna Ada Duru

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

No abstract provided.

Toward A Climate Change Strategy For Pennsylvania, John C. Dernback

Penn State Environmental Law Review (1991 - 2011)

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Pandemic Influenza: Public Health Preparedness For The Next Global Health Emergency, Lawrence O. Gostin

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) garnered a great deal of public attention because it was novel and its potential for spread was unknown. However, the SARS corona virus is significantly less virulent than pandemic influenza viral infections. The annual number of deaths for seasonal influenza is 36,000 people in the United States and 250,000- 500,000 worldwide. However, highly pathogenic influenza pandemics have occurred roughly 2-3 times per century, causing untold morbidity and mortality. The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918 was believed to have caused over 20 million deaths in a world less than one-third the size of the current global …

Chest Compression-Only Cpr As An Alternative To Traditional Cpr In Adult Cardiac Arrest: A Review Of Literature, Karin L. Wille

Graduate Research Papers

Despite the fact that the meaning of the term CPR is widely understood by the general population and that most people understand CPR to be a key to survival in the cardiac arrest victim, CPR is not being performed on the vast majority of people experiencing cardiac arrest. Statistically, approximately 350,000 cardiac arrests occur each year in the United States (AHA, 2003; Weisfeldt and Becker, 2002). Retrospective studies of witnessed cardiac arrest events indicate that no bystander CPR was performed 3 in 55% to 84% of cases (Bossaert, Van Hoeyweghen, and The Cerebral Resuscitation Study Group, 1989; Cummins et al., …

Deliberate Extinction: Whether To Destroy The Last Smallpox Virus, David A. Koplow

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The target problem to be examined is smallpox. Specifically, what should we (the United States and the entire world) now do with the last known residual samples of the virus that causes this uniquely horrific disease? The illness itself has virtually disappeared from the catalogue of human afflictions: due to a stunningly imaginative, concerted, and resolute campaign of the World Health Organization (WHO) through the 1970s, no one has contracted this deadly impairment for twenty-five years. Yet the causative element, an insidious scourge known as the variola virus, still remains, housed for now in high-security freezers at the U.S. Centers …

Legal Frameworks For Chronic Disease Prevention, Wendy Collins Perdue

Law Faculty Publications

Law is a tool that can be used to shape both private and government conduct so as to impact public health. There are at least seven different techniques of legal intervention, each of which has advantages and disadvantages. These techniques are: direct regulation through command and coercion; economic incentives to encourage private parties to behave in a particular way; indirect regulation through private enforcement such as tort law; altering the informational environment; directly providing services or infrastructure to the public; government acting as a "model citizen" with respect to its employees and facilities; and, inducing other levels of government to …

Comparative And International Health Law, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

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The Four Ages Of Health Law, Rand E. Rosenblatt

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

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Predictors Of Motivational Readiness For Consistent Condom Use In Relationship To Multiple Risk Behaviors Among African American Std Clinic Patients., Shannon Hong Shen Houser

All ETDs from UAB

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The Impact Of Treating Intestinal Helminth Infections On Surrogate Markers Of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Disease Progression Among Coinfected Zambian Adults., Kayvon Modjarrad

All ETDs from UAB

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Disease Burden And Case Management Of Bacterial Meningitis Among Children Under 5 Years Of Age In Saudi Arabia, Yagob Y. Al-Mazrou, Elgeili K. Musa, Mohamed N. Abdalla, Mohamed H. Al-Jeffri, Sami H. Al-Hajjar, Omer M. Mohamed

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: This study was designed to explore the case management and disease burden of bacterial meningitis among children below the age of 5 years in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. METHODS: A prospective descriptive study was conducted during June 1999 through to May 2001 in 8 hospitals from 5 cities in different areas of the country. Those were, King Fahad Specialist Hospital and Maternity & Children Hospital, Buraidah, Belgorashi General Hospital and King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Al-Baha, Maternity & Children Hospital and Ohud Hospital, Al-Madina, Al-Qatif General Hospital in the Eastern Region and Prince Abdulrahman Bin Ahmed Alsudairy Central Hospital, …

Surveillance For Waterborne-Disease Outbreaks Associated With Recreational Water--United States, 2001-2002, Jonathan S. Yoder, Brian G. Blackburn, Gunther F. Craun, Vincent Hill, Deborah A. Levy, Nora Chen, Sherline H. Lee, Rebecca L. Calderon, Michael J. Beach

Journal Articles: Epidemiology

PROBLEM/CONDITION: Since 1971, CDC, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists have maintained a collaborative surveillance system for collecting and periodically reporting data related to occurrences and causes of waterborne-disease outbreaks (WBDOs) related to drinking water; tabulation of recreational water-associated outbreaks was added to the surveillance system in 1978. This surveillance system is the primary source of data concerning the scope and effects of waterborne disease outbreaks on persons in the United States.

REPORTING PERIOD COVERED: This summary includes data on WBDOs associated with recreational water that occurred during January 2001-December 2002 and on …

Molecular Characterization Of Immunoglobins A, G, And M Heavy Chains In The Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphin, Tursiops Truncatus, Holly Ann Gefroh

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

The dolphin immune system is not well characterized, unlike the human and mouse immune systems. As a sentinel species of the marine ecosystem, an understanding of the dolphin immune system will not only contribute to conservation and management of the species, but also contribute to an understanding of the status of the marine ecosystem. cDNA sequences encoding IgA and IgG heavy chains and IgM transmembrane segment of the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, were obtained using a combination of reserve transcription of mRNA, PCR amplification using degenerate primers, and 3' and VH-FR3 anchored 5' RACE. Analysis of dolphin γ gene …

Cpa's Guide To Medical, Dental And Other Healthcare Practices;, Lucy R. Carter, Sara S. Lankford

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

CD-ROM files converted to PDF and included after main text

Organ Transplants Are Becoming A Possibility For Hiv Patients, Michelle Lammers

Public Interest Law Reporter

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An Overview Of Public Health In The New Millenium: Individual Liberty Vs. Public Safety, Dorothy Puzio

Journal of Law and Health

This article explores the tensions between creating an effective public health system that would be able to respond to and protect against any public health threat, and protecting individuals against unnecessary intrusions on their civil liberties. It then considers approaches to this issue that might best strike a balance in a democratic society. While many Americans may recognize and even accept that greater security would entail some intrusion into individual rights, there is no formula for striking the appropriate balance. This article attempts to arrive at a workable framework by examining how the United States' public health system works. This …

College Of Pharmacy Entry Level Program Overview, Nova Southeastern University

Health Professions Divisions Course Catalogs and Course Descriptions

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Molecular Epidemiology And Characterization Of Macrolide And Fluoroquinolone Resistance In Streptococcus Pneumoniae., Crystal N. Johnson

All ETDs from UAB

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Research View, Winter 2004

Research View

Contents of this issue include:

Running Straight Up: UM scientist may have found missing link in evolution of flight

GIS for All: UM project spreads the NASA technology gospel

Easing the Pain: UM professor helps people cope after surgery

Precious Crab Blood: University breakthrough stands the test of time

Moss Unmasked: Researcher finds benefit of common forest plan

An Econometric Analysis Of Infant Mortality, Pollution, And Income In The U.S. Counties, Margarita Yuri Somov

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

The concept of economic development has broadened to include environmental quality and population health. Interactions between income and pollution, income and health, and pollution and health have been studied separately by researchers from various disciplines. This study attempts to unify several different research strands and analyze simultaneous interactions between population health, measured by the infant mortality rate, pollution, and income in one endogenous system. Socioeconomic, racial, and rural urban disparities in infant mortality, pollution, and income are analyzed. The simultaneous equation system, estimated using the two-stage least squares method, tests whether pollution effects on infant mortality are outweighed by income …

Ultrastructure Of Mycobacterium Marinum Granuloma In Striped Bass Morone Saxatilis, D. T. Gauthier, W. K. Vogelbein, C. A. Ottinger

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

An emerging epizootic of mycobacteriosis currently threatens striped bass Morone saxatilis populations in Chesapeake Bay, USA. Several species of mycobacteria, including Mycobacterium marinum, species resembling M. avium, M. gordonae, M. peregrinum, M. scrofulaceum and M. terrae, and the new species M. shottsii have been isolated from diseased and healthy bass. In this study, we describe the ultrastructure of developing M. marinum granulomas in experimentally infected bass over a period of 45 wk. The primary host response to injected mycobacteria was formation of large macrophage aggregations containing phagocytosed bacilli. M. marinum were always contained within phagosomes. Close …

Laying On Of Language: Representations Of The Body In Healthcare Discourse., Jennifer E. Moffat

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Baselining A Compressed Air System: An Expert Systems Approach., Arul Prasad Senniappan

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The depletion of fossils fuels, the unstable supply of these fuels, and the phenomenal increase in energy costs emphasize the need to conserve energy. Compressed air systems are major energy consuming systems in most of industries and are known to be the most inefficient. The baselining of such systems assumes importance in energy conservation because of this. As a result, the baseline of such systems stresses the importance of energy conservation. When designing a new facility and operating an existing one, eliminating inefficiencies such as inappropriate uses, excessive system pressure, leaks and other wastages leads to energy conservation. This research …

Linda Malan Hilton V. Utah State Retirement Board, Long Term Disability Program : Brief Of Respondent, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (1996–2006)

APPEAL FROM THE UTAH STATE RETIREMENT BOARD

Incidence Of Skin Trauma Associated With Participation In Intercollegiate Soccer, Charlotte June Bargar

All Volumes (2001-2008)

Participation in soccer at the intercollegiate level has increased dramatically in the United States over the past 20 years. Past studies have identified the frequency and mechanisms of musculoskeletal injury among various populations. However, data on the incidence and etiology of skin trauma associated with intercollegiate athletic participation is limited in the literature. The purpose of this study was to measure the frequency of skin trauma and determine the injury rate (IR) based on exposure to injury among male and female soccer student-athletes at a NCAA Division II institution. A case reporting and exposure form was used to collect the …

Survival During And After Khmer Rouge, Sara S. Brown

Open Access Master's Theses

My personal life trauma experiences during the Khmer Rouge regime are described in this paper along with applications to Constructivist Self Development Theory (CSDT). This theory provides a basis for understanding the interrelatedness of biological and psychological self adaptation necessary to surviving and maintaining a consistent sense of self and the world. Five areas of self that were described in CSDT and which were applicable to my experiences of trauma are as follows:

1. Frame of reference: one's ability of understanding self and world, including spirituality. Although I was only seven years old at the time, somehow I understood the events …