A Creative Concept to empower office workers addressing work-related health risks.

Among office workers, the sedentary work-related health challenges are mainly associated with the fact that they often sit for up to 10 hr a working day. Members of the Research Group conducted a research program to assist the office workers of an international telecommunication company's affiliate in Budapest to enhance comfort levels in the office work environment. The data collection included a Comfort Survey to reveal employees' sense of comfort related to Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) components and the characteristics of employees' feelings and behavior during working hours.

Photoselective vaporization of the prostate using a laser high performance system in the canine model.

Purpose: Photoselective vaporization of the prostate with the 80 W KTP laser has been shown to be an effective and durable therapy for benign prostatic hyperplasia. We investigated the new, more powerful GreenLight HPS(R) High Performance System laser in the canine model as a more rapid treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia.

Materials And Methods: Five male beagles underwent general anesthesia and laparotomy.

Anticholinergics and central nervous system effects: are we confused?

The central nervous system (CNS) effects of anticholinergic agents have been documented in various patient populations and to varying degrees in case reports, brain-activity surrogates, and computerized cognitive testing. The older patient population with overactive bladder represents a group at increased risk of cognitive impairment and other CNS side effects associated with antimuscarinic agents. The complexity of the effect of anticholinergic agents on CNS function requires an increased level of careful investigation.

Morphology and the sperm penetration assay.

Objective: To assess the ability of Kruger morphology to predict the outcome of the sperm penetration assay (SPA).

Design: A retrospective review using univariate and multivariate analysis, t tests, and logistic regression was performed to examine the correlation between Kruger morphology and the optimized zona-free hamster egg sperm penetration assay (O-HESPA).

Setting: University hospital.

Antibody-dependent and spontaneous cell-mediated cytotoxicity in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) and spontaneous lymphocyte-mediated cytotoxicity (SLMC) of the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of 12 children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in an active clinical stage and of 15 ALL patients in bone marrow remission were studied on allogeneic and xenogeneic targets. Leukemic children with clinically active disease had low SLMC and ADCC activity while the PBMC of patients in remission exerted normal cytotoxicity as compared to the corresponding mean values of an age and sex matched healthy control group.

Oscillations in plasma cortisol levels of newborns during exchange transfusion.

Plasma cortisol concentration was determined in blood samples obtained in six newborns during exchange transfusion at 3--5 minute intervals. A radiotransin-assay using horse serum as a binding protein and toluene-based scintillation fluid for separation of unbound tracer proved to be a relatively specific method for determination of cortisol level in the plasma of newborns. Irregular oscillations were observed in four newborns, whereas a single peak could be demonstrated in two cases during the 40--70 minute period observed.