... 28,000 chainsaw-related injures annually. The majority of the injuries involve the hands and lower extremities with less than 10% involving injuries to the head and neck regions. Deaths while operating a chainsaw are extremely rare. The most common hazards associated with chainsaws are injuries caused...

...R Stoppacher, MD; SP Adams, MD Malaria is the world's most important parasitic disease, accounting for an estimated 300 to 500 million new cases and between 1.5 and 2.7 deaths annually. The majority of these deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa where malaria is endemic and are the result of infection...

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...E Choi, M.D.; ER Donoghue, M.D.; BD Lifschultz, M.D. There has been a marked increase in firearms-related deaths in this country over the past several decades. Especially in urban areas this increase has been correlated with a greater availability of handguns. Children have become more common...

...M Öström, B.M.; A Eriksson, M.D., Ph.D. Of sudden natural deaths while driving, 126 occurred during 1980 through 1985 in the northern half of Sweden. The mean age of the 69 car driver victims was 59 years, considerably higher than that of traumatic car deaths, and all but 2 were males. The mean age...

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...JV Marraccini, M.D.; GE Thomas, M.D.; JP Ongley, M.D.; CD Pfaffenberger, Ph.D.; JH Davis, M.D.; LR Bednarczyk, Ph.D. Methyl bromide (MeBr) is used as an insecticide fumigant. Four deaths and three recent hospitalizations have resulted from exposures to MeBr in Dade County, FL. Six cases occurred...

...RR Hazelwood, M.S.; PE Dietz, M.D., M.P.H.; AW Burgess, R. N., D.N.Se. A few sexual fatalities show ambiguous or conflicting evidence of manner of death or, in cases involving partners, of the partner's intent. In such equivocal cases, postmortem behavioral analysis and reconstruction aid...

...MF Ernst; A Poklis, Ph.D.; GE Gantner, M.D. The performance of trained medicolegal investigators was evaluated in 100 consecutive drug deaths, which occurred from January 1978 to May 1980 in St. Louis City and County. Carbon monoxide deaths were excluded from the study. The toxic agent responsible...