[Hygienic assessment of waste of soda production].

The object of investigations was soda industry waste. Slimes are formed at slimes storage which occupy considerable areas and are considered to be the source of permanent impact on the hydrosphere objects. Slimes storage placement within settlement boundaries and water protection zone of large watercourses leads to the deterioration of sanitary, hygienic and environmental situation and to the rising of risks to health of communities.

[Researches of the structure of solid household waste and assessment of their sanitary and epidemiologic danger].

Compliance with hygiene requirements for the municipal solid waste (MSW) handling includes their composition control. The main methodological approaches to the MSW morphological composition study to assess their epidemiological risk are given. The main results of experimental waste composition analysis for a number of settlements are presented.

[Safety during the thermal disposal of medical waste containing PVC].

In the article the issues of environmental, sanitary and hygienic safety of medical waste management are considered. Recently, for the treatment of certain types of medical waste thermal methods using small plants not equipped with a proper flue gas cleaning system are widely used. In this article the potential danger of supertoxicants generation when applying thermal methods of neutralization of medical waste that contains polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is justified by thermogravimetric and mass spectrometric studies.

Rates of risk-reducing surgery in Israeli BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.

The frequency of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations is higher in Israel than in almost all other countries. One strategy to reduce the burden of hereditary breast and ovarian cancers is to offer genetic testing followed by risk-reducing surgery (mastectomy and salpingo-oophorectomy) for mutation carriers. The extent to which Israeli women who carry mutations undergo these surgeries is not well characterized.