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Table of contents for the July 2006 issue of NEUROSURGERY. NEUROSURGERY, Vol. 59 No. 1, Jul-2006

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The current national surveillance system may miss two-thirds of the total number of occupational injuries and illnesses, suggests a study in the April Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

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For adolescent girls, sports which combine weight-bearing exercise with repetitive impact from running and jumping have the greatest effect in increasing bone density, thus reducing the lifelong risk of osteoporosis.

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Physicians receive little guidance on spirituality in medicine. To meet this need, the Southern Medical Association has planned spirituality/medicine-related educational activities, including "Special Sections" in the Southern Medical Journal.

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Obesity is a major contributor to employee health costs, responsible for two to three percent of all medical claims dollars, reports a study in the March Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

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The Fédération Internationale de Football (FIFA), the world governing body of soccer, has issued consensus guidelines for the definition and reporting of injuries in soccer players.

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An epidemiological analysis in the March 2006 issue of Sexually Transmitted Diseases casts doubt on a controversial theory that most cases of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa are transmitted by medical injections performed with re-used needles, rather than by sexual contact.

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Although intravenous steroid injection reduces pain in patients with severe acute sciatica caused by a herniated spinal disk, the improvement is small and lasts only a few days, according to a study.

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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a significant but potentially manageable contributor to employers' health costs.

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Ibuprofen, naproxen, and related "nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs" don't help"”and might even hinder healing"”in patients with tendon conditions known as tendinopathy, according to an editorial.

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A National Clinical Trials Consortium"”formed of an unprecedented collaboration among government, industry, and medical research institutions"”could be a "tangibly and conceptually constructive" step toward reforming the way medical research is performed in the United States.

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Employees with continuous health insurance coverage have significantly less missed work time than uninsured workers, reports a study.

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The Medical Fitness Association today announced a partnership with the American College of Sports Medicine and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Publisher. Beginning in 2006, the ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal(R) will serve as the official journal of the Medical Fitness Association.

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When should injured athletes be allowed to return to competition? Making these decisions is a core responsibility of team physicians and sport medicine doctors, yet they often find little guidance from medical research.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is pleased to announce it has entered into a new publishing partnership with the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, the leading professional society dedicated to the mental health care of older adults.

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Workers involved in the manufacture of semiconductors and storage media have varying exposure to a wide range of potentially hazardous substances, report a pair of studies.

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A synchronized response of brainstem neurons to sounds seems to play a critical role in the brain's ability to "hear" speech, suggests a report.

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Boys riding as jockeys in camel races in Persian Gulf countries are at risk of serious or even fatal injuries, according to a study.

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A recent study dispels rumors that 'Crix belly' is an inevitable complication of HIV treatment.

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Workers with high job stress have elevated levels of one laboratory marker of inflammation, according to a study.

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Table of contents for the October 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

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In a commentary published in the September 2005 issue of the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases, experts say neonatal herpes should routinely be reported to health authorities.

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Table of contents for the September 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

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If corporate health promotion programs can achieve even minor reductions in employee health risk factors, they can pay for themselves or even achieve net cost savings within a decade, suggests a study.

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Leading healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins is pleased to announce it has formed a new publishing partnership with the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer. Under the arrangement, LWW will serve as publisher of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology.

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Athletes who drink excessive amounts of fluids during prolonged exercise"”particularly novice marathon runners"”can develop dangerously low sodium levels, called exercise-associated hyponatremia.

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Two popular herbal remedies"”kava, commonly used for anxiety, and valerian, used for insomnia"”are no more effective than an inactive placebo, concludes a study.

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Physicians in Sweden and Norway collaborated with USC researchers to successfully produce functioning neurons from adult stem cells harvested from the ventricle area of a donor's brain.

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Approximately 30 percent of corporate employees have problems with pain, which are linked to reductions in health, work performance, and productivity, reports a study.

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Surgeons predict at least moderate improvement for almost all patients undergoing back surgery, yet nearly 40 percent of patients have little or no improvement one year after their operation, reports a study.

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Three independent research reviews -- commissioned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -- draw "remarkably consistent" conclusions linking daily levels of ozone pollution to an increased risk of death.

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Occupational illnesses and injuries account for thousands of deaths and millions of disabling injuries each year in the United States, yet their full impact remains underappreciated, reports a study.

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Dr. Julius Schachter, in the June 2005 issue of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, suggests modern diagnostic tests now have the ability to detect cases of LGV, which previously went unrecognized in the US but have been in the country all along.

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Workers exposed to the industrial solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) show significant changes in the normal balance of immune system regulators called cytokines, reports a study.

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Even Vietnam veterans who were not involved in spraying Agent Orange experience higher levels of dioxin contamination, which is linked to an increased overall risk of cancer, reports a study.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a leading international publisher of professional health information for physicians, nurses, specialized clinicians and students, has launched Journal of Patient Safety, a new publication focusing on patient safety and error reduction in healthcare settings.

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Transplantation will join with other leading kidney journals and the major general journals in establishing a policy that clinical research studies involving trials will only be considered for publication if they have been submitted to a free, electronically searchable clinical trial register.

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An updated World Health Organisation (WHO) statement on human organ and tissue transplantation calls for consistent international standards in transplant policy, increased use of living kidney donors, and efforts to address the growing problem of international trafficking in human organs.

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An updated consensus statement on assessment and management of concussions in athletes -- featuring a "pocket guide" summarizing the immediate evaluation of sport-related head injuries -- appears in the March/April 2005 Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine.

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Levels of commercial flame retardants in human blood samples have risen sharply since the 1970s even as levels of dioxin and other "persistent organic pollutants" have decreased, reports a study.

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High-poverty counties in the Southeastern United States have limited access to physicians and clinics specializing in occupational and environmental medicine, reports a study.

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The February Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine is a special issue dedicated to the memory of Jean Spencer Felton, M.D.

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When surveyed months after undergoing spinal surgery for back pain, patients remember their initial pain as worse than they rated it at the time, reports a study.

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The presence of premenstrual syndrome in female workers is associated with sharply increased costs to employers -- mainly related to the indirect costs of missed work time and reduced productivity, reports a study.

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Table of contents for the February 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and the American Association of Neuropathologists have announced that LWW has been selected to become publisher of AANP's Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology.

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Obesity is increasingly common in American workers and is associated with sharply increased cardiovascular risk factors and work limitations, reports a study.

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Women who work fixed nighttime hours during pregnancy "” but not those who work rotating shifts "” are more likely to suffer fetal loss, reports a study.

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Table of Contents for the November 2004 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

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Thirty percent of children on hemodialysis don't receive a high enough "dose" of dialysis to make up for their lost kidney function, suggests a study.