Container Mosquito Habitat Community Cleanup: A How-To Guide for Event Organization by Amy Hallock, Eva A. Buckner, Ricky W. Telg, Alena R. Poulin

“…The best way to prevent irritating bites and dangerous mosquito-transmitted illnesses is to get rid of all trash that holds water. …”
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Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis-Like Lesions and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Possibly Triggered by Sulfasalazine by Simon Krabbe, Cigdem Gül, Bjarne Andersen, Niels Tvede

“…This case report describes a patient with arthritis of the large joints, bilateral sacroiliitis, and positive anti-SSA and anti-dsDNA antibody, who received sulfasalazine and shortly thereafter became critically ill. He developed toxic epidermal necrolysis, hemolytic anemia, lymphopenia, markedly elevated ferritin, and muscle wasting. …”
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A Load Identification Application Technology Based on Regularization Method and Finite Element Modified Model by Bingrong Miao, Feng Zhou, Chuanying Jiang, Yaoxiang Luo, Hui Chen

“…A hybrid model is developed to simulate such ill-posed problem interactions under different noise levels. …”
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Mistreatment or not the best treatment to the elder. Reality and challenge by Miguel Angel Serra Valdés, Girelda Cordero López, Marleny Viera García

“…Cuba is not exempted of this situation; the Cuban population ages and chronic non communicable diseases are a challenge to be concerned, mainly cancer, dementia, disability and prostration due to different causes which are the most frequent illnesses in elder people.…”
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Value of Humanized Nursing under Emergency Green Channel on Gastrointestinal Function Recovery in Patients with Acute Intestinal Obstruction after Operation by Siqi Luo, Yan Wang

“…Emergency green channel refers to a fast and efficient service system provided by hospitals for critically ill patients. It is the key to ensure that emergency patients receive timely, standardized, efficient and thoughtful medical services, improve the success rate of rescue, and reduce medical risks. …”
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Strasti starého grófa. Autoreflexia choroby v osobnej korešpondencii aristokrata na sklonku 19. storočia by Daniel Hupko

“…It is therefore all the more valuable to find and analyze a set of letters which include the author’s own reception of his illnesses. Such files are preserved as a part of the estate of Count Maurice Pálffy, stored in the Slovak National Archives in Bratislava. …”
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Acute Thrombocytopenia, Leucopenia, and Multiorgan Dysfunction: The First Case of SFTS Bunyavirus outside China? by Srdjan Denic, Joumana Janbeih, Suresh Nair, Walter Conca, Waheed Uz Zaman Tariq, Suhail Al-Salam

“…Patient was from North Korea and was temporarily working in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, when he fell ill in March 2009. At the same time and unknown to us, many patients with similar clinical manifestations were admitted to hospitals in China. …”
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Ecumenical ecclesiology as a tool for township congregations to facilitate transformation of the (South) African society by K.J. Pali

“…The goals of these minister fraternals are fellowship, reaching out to each other, and societal involvement to deal with social ills in partnership with other societal structures such as the state and business sectors. …”
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Antropologia medica nella crisi ambientale. Determinanti biosociali, politica e campi di causazione by Elisa Pasquarelli, Andrea Filippo Ravenda

“…In such a complex framework, this special issue hosts theoretical contributions and ethnographic researches that, in their multiplicity, explore the global articulations of the environmental crisis with its local peculiarities embodied in the experiences of the people who live, work and fall ill in territories damaged or contaminated.…”
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Os físicos e a medicina da alma no Orto do Esposo by Marisa das Neves Henriques

“…In Orto do Esposo, a book from the end of the XIVth century or from the beginning of the XVth century, that explores monastic spirituality, one can find several physicians, all of them having a special role, in part due to the close relation between the spheres of profane and sacred.Nevertheless, the priority is taking care of the ill soul, instead of worrying too much about body. …”
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Do the media in South Africa offer alternatives to violence in their coverage of protests? by Wellington Radu, Kgalalelo Morwe, William Bird

“… Against the backdrop of the many social ills affecting the country, South Africa continues to make strides in the creation of a non-racist, non-sexist and non-violent society. …”
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Mental Disorders and Mental Health Promotion in Police Officers by Siriporn Santre

“…The number of police officers suffering from mental illnesses is becoming a significant public health concern. …”
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Propylene Glycol Toxicity in Adolescent with Refractory Myoclonic Status Epilepticus by Kara A. Bjur, Bryan C. Cannon, Anthony L. Fine, Matthew J. Ritter, Kerry E. Schueler, Michael E. Nemergut

“…We describe a case and the physiologic sequelae of propylene glycol toxicity manifested in a critically ill adolescent male with refractory myoclonic status epilepticus aggressively treated with multiple PG-containing medications (lorazepam, phenobarbital, and pentobarbital)—all within accepted dosing guidelines and a total daily PG exposure previously recognized to be safe. …”
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Best Practices for Scalloping: From the Boat to Your Plate by Brittany Hall-Scharf, Sarah Ellis, Savanna C. Barry

“…In addition, the warm summer water can increase the risk of food borne illnesses for those consuming scallops if not cleaned and stored properly. …”
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Les éco-quartiers comme construction infrapolitique d’un habiter ? by Guillaume Faburel

“…Combining three research conducted between 2009 and 2013, discourse analysis of stakeholders projects and, especially, empirical observation of four Swedish, German and Dutch sustainable neighborhoods, and, then, of three French inhabitants initiatives and / or social district (Tarn, Ille-et-Vilaine, Creuse) show that some of them would rise to new forms of individual and collective involvement and commitment, embedded in lifestyles, including development of specific value fields. …”
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A local meshless radial basis functions based method for solving fractional integral equations by Mehdi Radmanesh, Mohammad Ebadi

“…The LRBFCM approach decomposes the main problem into several local sub-problems of small sizes, effectively reducing the ill-conditioning of the overall problem. By employing the collocation approach and utilizing the strong form of the equation, the proposed method achieves efficiency. …”
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Fractional-Order Total Variation Image Restoration Based on Primal-Dual Algorithm by Dali Chen, YangQuan Chen, Dingyu Xue

“…This paper proposes a fractional-order total variation image denoising algorithm based on the primal-dual method, which provides a much more elegant and effective way of treating problems of the algorithm implementation, ill-posed inverse, convergence rate, and blocky effect. …”
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Current Status of the Open Abdomen Treatment for Intra-Abdominal Infection by Yujie Yuan, Jianan Ren, Yulong He

“…The open abdomen has become an important approach for critically ill patients who require emergent abdominal surgical interventions. …”
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Novel Interventional Approaches for ALI/ARDS: Cell-Based Gene Therapy by Ying-Gang Zhu, Jie-Ming Qu, Jing Zhang, Hong-Ni Jiang, Jin-Fu Xu

“…Acute lung injury (ALI) and its more severe form, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), continue to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients. The present therapeutic strategies for ALI/ARDS including supportive care, pharmacological treatments, and ventilator support are still controversial. …”
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Bacillus cereus Typhlitis in a Patient with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by James D. Denham, Sowmya Nanjappa, John N. Greene

“…Because this pathogen is rarely isolated in clinical specimens, no large studies exist to guide the management of these acutely ill patients. Individual case reports and case series exist in the literature describing various clinical manifestations of B. cereus in the neutropenic patient including bacteremia/septicemia, pneumonia, meningitis/encephalitis, hepatic abscesses, and gastritis. …”
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