Underreporting of blood and body fluid exposures among health care students and trainees in the acute care setting: a 2007 survey.

Background: It has been estimated that more than 8 million health care workers (HCWs) in the United States may be exposed to blood and body fluids via sharp and mucocutaneous exposures.

Methods: An anonymous questionnaire was distributed among 505 HCWs. The target sample population included all the medical students; nursing professionals; dental professionals; and residents in internal medicine, emergency medicine, surgery, and obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, a metropolitan tertiary care and referral center for Northern Illinois and Northwest Indiana.

Varicella-zoster virus and cerebral aneurysm: case report and review of the literature.

We report a case of varicella-zoster vasculopathy that occurred in a 42-year-old renal transplant recipient with concurrent vertebral artery aneurysm and dissection. The patient was successfully treated with embolization and acyclovir therapy. Here, we review the English literature regarding the association of varicella-zoster virus infection with cerebral aneurysm.

Progressive disseminated histoplasmosis presenting as cellulitis in a renal transplant recipient.

With the advent of potent immunosuppressive therapies used in solid organ transplantation, patients are more susceptible to a variety of infectious organisms. Infections may result from atypical pathogens and present in an unusual manner. We describe a case of progressive disseminated histoplasmosis presenting as cellulitis in a renal transplant recipient and review this disease.

Neuropsychological and Behavioral Correlates of Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome in Children: A Preliminary Study.

STUDY OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate a group of children with mild to moderate Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS) for baseline neurocognitive deficits and behavioral dysfunction. A subset of the sample were also reassessed, using the same test battery, after treatment with adenotonsillectomy. DESIGN: Baseline and post-treatment neuropsychological and behavioral assessment.

Sleep and its relationship to pain, dysfunction, and disease activity in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.

Objective: To determine what sleep abnormalities may exist in children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA). and their relationship to pain, dysfunction. and disease activity.

The Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ): psychometric properties of a survey instrument for school-aged children.

Study Objectives: To present psychometric data on a comprehensive, parent-report sleep screening instrument designed for school-aged children, the Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ). The CSHQ yields both a total score and eight subscale scores, reflecting key sleep domains that encompass the major medical and behavioral sleep disorders in this age group.

Design: Cross-sectional survey.

Parental and self-report of sleep in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of parent-reported and self-reported sleep disturbances in a sample of school-aged children with attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Design: Cross-sectional survey questionnaire.

Setting: A multidisciplinary ADHD evaluation clinic in a children's teaching hospital (ADHD sample) and 3 elementary schools in southern New England (control sample).

Sleep habits and sleep disturbance in elementary school-aged children.

Relatively little is known about sleep habits, sleep disturbances, and the consequences of disordered sleep in school-aged children. This descriptive study examined a variety of common sleep behaviors in a group of 494 elementary school children, grades kindergarten through fourth, using a battery of sleep questionnaires that included parent, teacher, and self-report surveys. The prevalence of parent-defined sleep problems ranged from 3.

Trimethylamine oxide transport across plasma membranes of elasmobranch erythrocytes.

The aim of this study was to characterize the erythrocyte cell membrane transport of trimethylamine oxide (TMAO) in the little skate, Raja erincea. Uptake of TMAO occurs by two processes, Na(+)-dependent and Na(+)-independent. 2,4 dinitrophenol (2,4 DNP), a known ATP synthesis inhibitor, inhibited TMAO uptake, suggesting the involvement of the Na(+)/K(+)-ATP pump in Na(+)-dependent TMAO transport.

Television-viewing habits and sleep disturbance in school children.

Objective: To investigate the relationship between specific television-viewing habits and both sleep habits and sleep disturbances in school children.

Methods: The parents of 495 children in grades kindergarten through fourth grade in three public elementary schools completed two retrospective survey questionnaires, one assessing their children's sleep behaviors and the other examining television-viewing habits of both the child and the family. Sleep domains assessed included bedtime resistance, sleep onset delay, sleep duration, anxiety around sleep, parasomnias, night wakings, and daytime sleepiness.

Unpublished letters from Prosper Menière: a personal silhouette.

It is ironic that, while the term "Menière's disease" is becoming more and more well known today, published accounts of a biographic nature are scarce for the man for whom the eponym was devised: Prosper Menière. As we are obliged to turn to only a few avenues for this sort of information, we are fortunate to discover new sources of original materials to augment the published account of the life and character of Menière the man. One such unpublished source that has recently come to light is a cache of letters from the pen of Menière that was preserved for the period extending from the early 1850s up to the time shortly preceding the author's death a decade later; and it is these letters that form the basis of this inquiry into the mind and character of Menière, the brilliant otologist and man of letters.