Health Effects Associated with Wastewater Treatment, Reuse, and Disposal.

A review of the literature published in 2015 on topics relating to public and environmental health risks associated with wastewater treatment, reuse, and disposal is presented. This review is divided into the following sections: wastewater management, microbial hazards, chemical hazards, wastewater treatment, wastewater reuse, agricultural reuse in different regions, greywater reuse, wastewater disposal, hospital wastewater, industrial wastewater, and sludge and biosolids.

Oral contraceptive pill use and abnormal menstrual cycles in women with severe condylar resorption: a case for low serum 17beta-estradiol as a major factor in progressive condylar resorption.

Introduction: Progressive condylar resorption has been described for many years. Because condylar resorption favors women over men, many have thought that a prominent systemic factor for the pathogenesis of this disease might be related to sex hormones.

Methods: Over a 3-year period, 27 women without autoimmune disease came to our office for orthognathic surgical correction of their skeletal deformity secondary to severe condylar resorption.