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Rescue and Emergency Management of a Man-Made Disaster: Lesson Learnt from a Collapse Factory Building, Bangladesh

open access: yesThe Scientific World Journal, 2015
A tragic disaster occurred on April 24, 2013, in Bangladesh, when a nine storied building in a suburban area collapsed and killed 1115 people and injured many more.
Animesh Biswas   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence of child passenger restraint use in Shantou, China from 2012 to 2017

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2020
Background Child passenger safety is an important public health problem in China. This study aimed to examine the prevalence of child passenger restraint use while riding in a car in the city of Shantou in China from 2012 to 2017.
Shuzhen Yan   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Benefits of Incorporating Health Promotion Courses for College Music Majors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Our purpose for this project was to explore correlations between music study and health and wellness. Music study involves auditory, mental, physical, and emotional health. It can also cause performance injury. In an effort to reduce performance injuries
DeBolt, Cassandra   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Metformin promotes mitochondrial integrity through AMPK‐signaling in Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Metformin mediates mitochondrial quality control in Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) fibroblasts carrying mtDNA mutations. At therapeutic levels, metformin activates AMPK signaling to restore mitochondrial dynamics by promoting fusion and restraining fission, while preserving mitochondrial mass, enhancing autophagy/mitophagy and biogenesis ...
Chatnapa Panusatid   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Examining the role of firearm involvement in repeat intimate partner violence assaults

open access: yesInjury Epidemiology
Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) remains a pervasive and complex issue with significant social and public health implications. The nexus of firearms and intimate partner violence (IPV) is an especially dangerous one.
Zainab Hans   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Occurrence and Survival Condition of Lung Cancer with Different Histologies 
Among Residents in Pudong New Area

open access: yesChinese Journal of Lung Cancer, 2014
Background and objective Different histologies of lung cancer vary in occurrence and prognosis. This study aims to analyze the incidence and occurrence trend of lung cancer and investigate the survival rate and its influential factors among lung cancer ...
Hanyi CHEN   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gun Deaths Outpace Motor Vehicle Deaths in 12 States and the District of Columbia in 2010 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
While motor vehicle-related deaths are on the decline as the result of a successful decades-long public health-based injury prevention strategy, firearm deaths continue unabated - the direct result of the failure of policymakers to acknowledge and act on

core  

Epidemiology of injury in male Irish secondary school adolescents in one academic year. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
BACKGROUND:Establishing the incidence of injury is the first step in initiating injury prevention strategies. There is a lack of research on injury in Irish adolescents and this study paves the way for further injury prevention research, by implementing ...
McCaffrey, Noel   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Preventing paraffin-related injury

open access: yesJournal of Injury and Violence Research, 2009
Paraffin (called kerosene in North America and other parts of the world) is the most commonly used fuel in ‎non-electrified dwellings worldwide. It is especially popular in Africa and South Asia. Although paraffin ‎offers many advantages-especially its comparatively low cost to produce-it poses two major risks of ‎injury.
C. Schwebel, David, Swart, Dehran
openaire   +2 more sources

Pioglitazone plus (−)‐epigallocatechin gallate: a novel approach to enhance osteogenic performance in aged bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Aged human bmMSCs are seeded in the scaffold. Osteoblastic induction can slightly increase cell's bone‐forming activity to produce bone‐like tissues, shown as the sporadic xylenol orange‐stained spots (the lower left image). Notably, pioglitazone plus EGCG co‐treatment dramatically increases cell's bone‐forming activity and bone‐like tissue production (
Ching‐Yun Chen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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