In the United States (US), federal legislation requiring the use of safety-engineered sharp
devices, along with an array of other protective measures, has played a critical role in reducing …

IN 2001, THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTHCARE Worker Safety Center at the University of
Virginia collected data on percutaneous injuries and blood and body fluid exposures from 58 …

Use of emergency food aid in the UK, particularly in the form of food banks, has dramatically
increased over the last decade. 1 This research, jointly conducted by Oxfam, Child Poverty …

Evidence for an association between cortisol and clinical pregnancy in women undergoing
In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) is mixed with previous studies relying exclusively on short term …

… In sharp contrast to the present political climate, Jane Perry studies the outdoor play of
young children and the role of professional early childhood teachers. Jane Perry uses case …

US policy regarding health care worker-to-patient transmission of bloodborne pathogens,
issued in 1991, is flawed. We review current evidence of such nosocomial infections and …

Objective.Measuring the effect of the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act (NSPA) is
challenging. No agreement exists on a common denominator for calculating injury rates. Does it …

Underwater gliders are autonomous vehicles that profile vertically by controlling buoyancy
and move horizontally on wings. Gliders are reviewed, from their conception by Henry …

BACKGROUND: To gauge the impact of regulatory-driven improvements in sharps disposal
practices in the United States over the last 2 decades, we analyzed percutaneous injury (PI) …

Dissolved and suspended materials in the ocean modify the in‐water light field by absorbing
and scattering photons. Direct measurement of inherent optical properties of individual …