Health status and ergonomics education: A comparison between student nurses and first-year nursing staff.

Aims: To (a) compare student nurses' health status and levels of ergonomics knowledge and awareness to those of first-year nursing staff and (b) investigate the association between nurses' ergonomic compliance and health status with their educational preparedness.

Design: This cohort study compared ergonomics awareness and knowledge, and health status of nurses when they were students and after their first-year working in medical facilities.

Methods: In total, 133 4th-year student nurses completed a survey; 45 of them completed a second survey after working 1 year in a medical facility.

Data From a One-Stop-Shop Comprehensive Cancer Screening Center.

Purpose: Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally. However, by implementing evidence-based prevention strategies, 30%-50% of cancers can be detected early with improved outcomes. At the integrated cancer prevention center (ICPC), we aimed to increase early detection by screening for multiple cancers during one visit.

On the way to a new science.

In this autobiographical essay, Efim Liberman (1925-2011) looks back at his life summarizing his lifetime experience and drawing conclusions about the role of science and its future development and unification, with the ultimate goal to unite our understanding of nature and harmonize life. A new field of science suggested by Liberman and named Chaimatics combines biology, physics and mathematics. The main idea of Chaimatics is simple: not only measurement, but also calculation is a real physical operation and cannot be done for free-energy and time must be spent on calculation.

The APC I1307K allele conveys a significant increased risk for cancer.

This study is the first attempt to evaluate the association between the APC I1307K variant and overall cancer risk. It is unique in both its large sample size and in the reliability of data in the control group. The findings described in this article have major implications in terms of identifying asymptomatic individuals who are at increased risk to harbor cancer and therefore targeted to be enrolled in specific early detection and prevention programs.

His-bundle pacing versus biventricular pacing in cardiac resynchronization therapy patients: A crossover design comparison.

Background: Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) typically is attempted with biventricular pacing (BiVP). One-third of patients are nonresponders. His-bundle pacing (HBP) has been evaluated as an alternative means of effecting CRT because it generates truly physiologic ventricular activation, as evidenced in part by the morphologic identity between normally conducted and paced QRS complexes.