Journal Articles

[Guest guest]

These research papers on green tobacco sickness among migrant and

seasonal farmworkers were recently published.

Arcury TA, Quandt SA, Preisser JS. Predictors of Illness Incidence and

Prevalence of Green Tobacco Sickness among Latino Farmworkers in North

Carolina, U.S.A. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health,

55(11):818-824, 2001.

Quandt SA, Arcury TA, Preisser JS, Bernert JT, Norton D. Behavioral and

Environmental Predictors of Salivary Cotinine in Latino Tobacco Workers.

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 40(10): 844-852,

2001.

Arcury TA, Quandt SA, Preisser JS, Norton D. The Incidence of Green

Tobacco Sickness among Latino Farmworkers. Journal of Occupational and

Environmental Medicine, 43(7):601-609, 2001.

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A. Arcury, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Research Director

Department of Family and Community Medicine

Wake Forest University School of Medicine

Medical Center Boulevard

Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1084

Phone: 336-716-9438

Fax: 336-716-3206

[Guest guest]

Hi

It can't be a coincidence that I was just scrolling the library's

database and then read this e-mail about the articles.

I was searching the university library database for this thesis I'm

doing (not related BPES) and for the first time thought about

searching it for BPES related articles. Why didn't I think of this

earlier?!

Got this list of some more recent stuff which might interest you

folks:

Correction of Telecanthus in the Blepharophimosis Syndrome, Thaddeus

S. Nowinski, 1992, In: International ophthalmology clinics, ISSN

0020-816, Nummering: vol. 32 (1992), afl. 3, pag. 157-164

Original Articles - Rotation Ligamentoplasty for the Correction of

Epicanthus Inversus - Congenital epicanthus inversus was permanently

corrected in seven of eight patients by rotation of the medial

canthal ligament during transnasal wiring, Ercan Karacaoglu; Erdem

Tezel; M.Mu & #776;mtaz Gu & #776;ler, 2000, In: ls of plastic surgery, ISS=

N

0148-7043, vol. 45 (2000), afl. 2, pag. 140-144

Blepharomphimosis-ptosis-epicanthus inversus syndrome (BPES), P.

Strømme; F. Sandboe, 1996, In: Acta ophthalmologica Scandinavica :

the ophthalmological journal of the Nordic countries, ISSN

1395-3907, vol. 74 (1996), afl. 1, pag. 45-47

Blepharophimosis, ptosis, epicanthus inversus, telecanthus,

ambhopia, and menstrual abnormality in sisters, Tomoko Amano; Yuzo

Shibuya; Seiji Hayasaka, 1995, In: Japanese journal of

ophthalmology, ISSN 0021-5155, vol. 39 (1995), afl. 2, pag. 172-176.

Blepharophimosis, Ptosis, Epicanthus Inversus and Telecanthus in a

Family Over Five Generations, R. Kuckelkorn; M. Reim, 1992, in:

Klinische Monatsbla & #776;tter fu & #776;r Augenheilkunde, ISSN 0023-2165, vol=

.. 201

(1992), afl. 5, pag. 325-329

I will post them to Shireen as well so she can add them to her list

on the family network.

Bernice

--- In blepharophimosis , Rob <rawatson@a...>

wrote:

> > I read Rob s story, thinking this guy is very funny, &

then I

> > read your comment. Would love to know how long its taken him to

get

> > so knowledgeable about this stuff? Rob, these documents you

quote

> > from from - are they available on `the net`?

>

> I knew very little about my own BPEI (only found out its name when

I was

> 25!) until I had a son 11 years ago who needed some BPEI-related

> surgery. At that point it suddenly became serious, so I got to

work

> learning what I could, with the help of my wife (formerly a

librarian,

> fortunately).

>

> Unfortunately, the technical journal industry is very protective

of its

> expensive intellectual property. I've had very little luck finding

full

> text & picture journal articles on the internet. But the

publishers and

> the medical databases (like Medline/Medscape) allow searches, and

> provide abstracts (one or two paragraph summaries) and full

> bibliographic details. Armed with such details, I've been able to

go to

> my local public library or the nearest children's hospital

library, and

> ask them to get copies of the interesting-looking articles through

> inter-library loan. It's free or has a nominal fee (<$10?) per

article,

> and sometimes the photocopying quality leaves something to be

desired,

> but it's reasonably painless and effective if slow. The online

> publishers and databases also let people (or sometimes only

doctors, who

> are almost like people) order the articles directly, for a fee of

> course. Being in Oz I can't really do that, but the USA-based

folks out

> there might be in a better position to try it.

>

> The articles, even if written in " English " (ha! More Latin and

Greek

> than English), are usually somewhat incomprehensible to us mere

> Earthlings. We bought a good medical dictionary (Stedman's, but

there

> are others) and I give it quite a thrashing when trying to

decypher the

> articles. I can then usually make sense of only about 50-60% of

the

> articles, assisted by the gory diagrams and photos. Just enough to

get

> me confused and into trouble. Note also that many of the articles

are

> quite old. Some date from the 1950s & 60s, when the techniques to

undo

> BPEI were still being worked out, as were the clothes &

hairstyles.

> There doesn't appear to have been much published since then in

terms of

> basic BPEI surgical techniques. The more recent articles are more

about

> genetics or summarise the older articles. Then again, I haven't

actively

> looked for journal articles for about 5 years, and that was for

> entropion/trichiasis repair rather than straight BPEI as such.

>

> Enough typing, it's 11:50pm, time for snoozy-bobos. God bless

y'all.

>

> Rob

[Guest guest]

God Bless you as well Rob..........thanks for sharing

Rob <rawatson@...> wrote: > I read Rob s story, thinking this guy is very funny, & then I > read your comment. Would love to know how long its taken him to get > so knowledgeable about this stuff? Rob, these documents you quote > from from - are they available on `the net`?I knew very little about my own BPEI (only found out its name when I was 25!) until I had a son 11 years ago who needed some BPEI-related surgery. At that point it suddenly became serious, so I got to work learning what I could, with the help of my wife (formerly a librarian, fortunately).Unfortunately, the technical journal industry is very protective of its expensive intellectual property. I've had very little luck finding full text & picture journal articles on the internet. But the publishers and the medical databases (like Medline/Medscape) allow

searches, and provide abstracts (one or two paragraph summaries) and full bibliographic details. Armed with such details, I've been able to go to my local public library or the nearest children's hospital library, and ask them to get copies of the interesting-looking articles through inter-library loan. It's free or has a nominal fee (<$10?) per article, and sometimes the photocopying quality leaves something to be desired, but it's reasonably painless and effective if slow. The online publishers and databases also let people (or sometimes only doctors, who are almost like people) order the articles directly, for a fee of course. Being in Oz I can't really do that, but the USA-based folks out there might be in a better position to try it.The articles, even if written in "English" (ha! More Latin and Greek than English), are usually somewhat incomprehensible to us mere Earthlings. We bought a good medical dictionary

(Stedman's, but there are others) and I give it quite a thrashing when trying to decypher the articles. I can then usually make sense of only about 50-60% of the articles, assisted by the gory diagrams and photos. Just enough to get me confused and into trouble. Note also that many of the articles are quite old. Some date from the 1950s & 60s, when the techniques to undo BPEI were still being worked out, as were the clothes & hairstyles. There doesn't appear to have been much published since then in terms of basic BPEI surgical techniques. The more recent articles are more about genetics or summarise the older articles. Then again, I haven't actively looked for journal articles for about 5 years, and that was for entropion/trichiasis repair rather than straight BPEI as such.Enough typing, it's 11:50pm, time for snoozy-bobos. God bless y'all.Rob