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UN condemns Taliban's continued human rights abuse in Afghanistan.
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Military coup signals the start of a new era for Pakistan.
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Health effects of Maoist insurgency in Nepal.
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Epidemiological aspects of student riots.
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Doctors and ill-treatment of detainees.
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Environmental stress and thyrotoxicosis. Absence of association.
The incidence of treated thyrotoxicosis in Northern Ireland has been estimated by the technique of "therapeutic auditing" for the periods (a) three years preceeding the start of the present civil unrest and (b) the ensuing three years. No change in incidence was found, which supports the concept that environmental stress is not important in the pathogenesis of this disease.
Selective planned induction in conditions of civil strife.
Selective planned induction may be defined as the initiation of labour by artificial means for reasons not strictly medical. Where the indications are merely social or for conveniencewhether patient's, hospital's, or doctor'sīt is doubtful that the procedure is acceptable until we have more detailed knowledge of its effects on the mother and fetus. However, the civil strife that occurred in Belfast in 1972 provided conditions in which the present study of the technique seemed justified. The results suggest that, provided the selection criteria are sufficiently rigorous and meticulously applied, there are no serious maternal risks. The main fetal risk is of unexpected prematurity; this can be avoided, but the precautions applied in this preliminary study reduced significantly the number of patients for whom the method could be used. A second series, with controls and using less rigorous selection criteria, is at present being studied.
Voluntary total fasting: a challenge for the medical community.
A movement opposing the nuclear arms race asked for medical surveillance of four people intending to go without food for an unlimited period. The course of fasting was uneventful until day 28-35, when weight loss reached 18%. In one subject fasting was ended on day 38 owing to development of Wernicke's encephalopathy; the others agreed to suspend their fast by day 40. The presence of physicians, offered under defined conditions, may have contributed to the timely cessation of this protest.
Health services in the occupied territories.
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Tactical emergency medical services: an emerging subspecialty of emergency medicine.
Law enforcement agencies are recognizing the need to have emergency medical care available at the scene of any incident involving tactical operations. The potentially volatile and dangerous atmosphere surrounding tactical operations is conducive to severe injury to officers, hostages, suspects, and bystanders. This mandates the immediate availability of basic and advanced life support services. However, a purely traditional approach to emergency medical services in the tactical environment may not be feasible and may expose prehospital personnel to greater danger. It also may disrupt the law enforcement mission. These factors mandate a different set of field assessment and treatment priorities. To meet these needs, selected prehospital personnel and emergency physicians train to work with and support special weapons and tactics teams.
Animal activists flee UK clampdown.
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"Popular" health and the state: dialectics of the peace process in El Salvador.
The poor performance of large-scale "vertical" rural health programs tied to state Ministries of Health in Third World countries has often been attributed to a lack of "political will". But that term tells little about the conditions that favor health reform and may obscure disparate power relations and struggles over development. This work explores such a struggle over community health that emerged as part of the peace process in a former war zone of El Salvador since the 1992 ceasefire. The formalized negotiations (and behind-the-scenes confrontations) over health in Chalatenango province took place between Ministry of Health administrators and proponents of a "popular" health system that has functioned in repopulated villages of rebel-controlled Chalatenango since 1987. The Ministry has set up its own national (U.S. AID-designed) community health worker program, and agreed in theory with the popular system's emphasis on village-based lay health promoters; however, in negotiations and efforts at collaboration in Chalatenango the Ministry has been unwilling to support the promoters in the popular system, to accommodate local participation in health decision-making, or to restructure its own physician-centered practices around the need for more comprehensive approaches to health.
Some missile injuries due to civil unrest in Northern Ireland.
Some missile injuries are reviewed after nearly 8 years of continuous warfare. A feature of many of these injuries is the early admission to hospital which has had a profound effect on the survival rate and the recovery period. Some examples are given of injuries inflicted by rubber bullets. The effects of wounding by low and high velocity missiles are described and examples given. An injury caused by a missile incorporated in a bomb is also shown.
Injury patterns related to use of less-lethal weapons during a period of civil unrest.
This case series documents injury patterns related to beanbag and other less-lethal (LL) weapons during a period of civil unrest in a major U.S. city. A retrospective review of injuries related to LL weapons usage presenting to an urban Emergency Department (ED) from April 10, 2001 to April 18, 2001 was performed. Patients under 18 years of age and those without signed consent to treat were excluded. Twenty-seven patients were identified. Two were excluded due to lack of signed consent for treatment. Mean age was 28.4 +/- 11.7 years; 76% of patients were male. Significant morbidity was found in 7 (28%) cases with no fatalities. Three (12%) individuals, with the diagnoses of pulmonary contusion, liver laceration, and Achilles tendon rupture, required admission. Two (8%) individuals had delayed complications of pneumonia and post-concussive syndrome. Reports of injury patterns associated with beanbag munitions in the medical literature are limited. Physicians should be aware of the injuries and delayed sequelae associated with their use.
Popliteal artery war injuries.
The early postoperative results of 44 surgically treated popliteal arterial injuries from the Yugoslav civil war are reported. Of these patients, 41 (93%) were males and three (7%) were females, average age was 28 (range 6-45) years. Twenty patients (45%) had gunshot wounds and 24 (55%) explosive wounds. Twelve (28%) suffered isolated vascular damage, while 32 (72%) suffered concomitant bone fractures. Isolated arterial lesions were found in 24 (55%) cases, and concomitant arterial and venous lesions in 20 (45%). Twenty-four (55%) had primary reconstructions after haemostasis in the initial war hospital, and 20 (45%) secondary reconstructions after inadequate primary reconstruction in a regional war hospital. Artery procedures included 19 reverse saphenous vein graft interpositions, 10 reverse saphenous vein bypasses, 12 'in situ' saphenous vein bypasses and five lateral subcutaneous saphenous vein bypasses. The early graft patency rate was 100%, and limb salvage 72%. Major amputation was performed in 28%. Concomitant bone fractures, secondary reconstructions, secondary haemorrhage from an infected graft, and explosion wounds significantly increased the amputation rate (P < 0.01). Eleven amputations were performed after an anatomic, and only one after an extra-anatomic reconstruction (P < 0.01). The authors recommend an in situ or lateral subcutaneous reconstruction in cases of complicated popliteal artery injuries, such as concomitant bone fractures accompanied by massive soft tissue damage, and this type of reconstruction should also be used if infection is present or the procedure is delayed.