Almost 30 Million People

Twenty Local Health Departments, 46 Million People

B ig City Health Departments: Leadership Perspectives highlights innovative strategies and programs of the health commissioners of the largest American cities. Led by Drs Jonathan Fielding of Los Angeles and Thomas Frieden of New York City, the commissioners formed the Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC) in 2002 to reflect their needs as distinct from those of the many smaller jurisdictions acro...

Abnormal hemoglobins in a quarter million people.

Hemolysates of erythrocytes from more than a quarter million people in Alabama were electrophoresed on cellulose acetate, pH 8.4, and those samples exhibiting an abnormality were also electrophoresed in citrate agar, pH 6.0. The globin chains of mutants other than Hb S and C were electrophoresed in urea-mercaptoethanol buffers at both pH 8.9 and pH 6.0, and 60 of them were also analyzed structu...

Over 30 million psychedelic users in the United States

We estimated lifetime prevalence of psychedelic use (lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), psilocybin (magic mushrooms), mescaline, and peyote) by age category using data from a 2010 US population survey of 57,873 individuals aged 12 years and older. There were approximately 32 million lifetime psychedelic users in the US in 2010; including 17% of people aged 21 to 64 years (22% of males and 12% of...

The 30 Million-Word Gap: Relevance for Pediatrics.

Who cares for the nine million displaced people of Syria?

“Zaatari camp is considered the fourth biggest city in Jordan,” a volunteer medical coordinator who had recently been working there told me last week. She was speaking from the Paris headquarters of Doctors of the World. The charity asked us to keep its volunteers’ identities confidential as healthcare professionals and facilities have been targets for violence. Just inside the border, the Zaat...