Benzene-Exposed Army Soldiers: Nasal Cytology as a Screening Tool.

Objective: Assessment of the nasal cytology in revealing early nasal mucosa alteration of workers exposed to benzene.

Methods: Nasal cytology was compared among non-exposed and exposed workers to benzene. A comparison of the two groups was performed considering rhino-cytological features.

[Injuries among Sapienza University students].

Background. The phenomenon of accidents during the university course is a public health problem. Students spend a lot of time at university and in structure for training.

Post Vaccinal Temporary Sensorineural Hearing Loss.

In our systematic research we identified four studies concerning the onset of neurological adverse events following vaccination and two excluding this association. A 33-year-old Italian man, belonging to the Italian Army was hospitalized because he suffered from vertigo, nausea and sudden right hearing loss not classified (NDD), that set in 24 h after the administration of tetanus-diphtheria and meningococcal vaccines. Some neurological events arising after vaccination are very difficult to treat.

[Risk of nasopharyngeal cancer, Leukemia and other tumors in a cohort of employees and students potentially exposed to (FA) formaldehyde in University laboratories].

FA was recently classified as carcinogen of second class (category 1B). A retrospective cohort study was conducted for the evaluation of the association between exposure to FA and cancer in professionally potentially exposed in a University setting. The cohort was composed of 140 exposed to FA and 364 not exposed in the period 1999-2015.

Past and present of risk management in healthcare.

The present article describes the history of risk management, how it was born and how it has evolved, with a specific focus on healthcare. Risk management was a strategy initially used primarily in the economic and business sector. We analysed how the continuous increase of medical malpractice lawsuits involving demands for compensation led to the adoption of risk management strategies in healthcare.