Celebrating the Public Domain

Celebrating the “Ostād”

This is a short tribute to Dr. Seyed Ali Fakhr Tabatabaei celebrating his excellent and fruitfull career in neurosurgical practice and mentorship. 

Celebrating 75 Years of ASTHO: Milestones in Public Health Leadership

Nineteen years after John Snow deduced the famous link between London’s Broad Street water pump and a deadly cholera epidemic ravaging the English capital, a second consequential cholera outbreak erupted on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. The outbreak began in New Orleans in 1873 and spread along the major mercantile routes, killing hundreds of people.At the 1879 meeting of the Sanitary C...

In the public domain

Wonderful as web tools for molecular biology may be, eventually the working scientist must interrupt his or her play with Java Applets, Active-X Buttons, and other such gizmos, and get down to some serious computational molecular biology on his or her own computer. Even here, the web can come in handy, as there are many archives of biological software out there. These act as repositories for ‘p...

Celebrating the past; awakening the future: the NSW Public Health Forum highlights public health successes in NSW.

Public health has many forms of expression. Public health applies knowledge derived from fields of enquiry that includes epidemiology, sociology, anthropology, medicine, economics, and environmental science. Public health seeks to make healthy lifestyles, healthy policy, and a healthy economy, practical and applied ideals. Beside the natural environment and air and water quality, ozone levels a...

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