Chronicles of a Deflation Unforetold

Chronicle of an unforetold death.

Within hours after her sudden and unexpected death, I notified the dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, on whose faculty she served, that Barbara had apparently died of a coronary occlusion. He relayed the news around the world. Devoted to improving effectiveness and equity in health care, Barbara received many tributes. Because she died while swimming alone, an autopsy ...

Events in Multimedia Electronic Chronicles (E-Chronicles)

The nature of information has changed significantly in the last two decades. Now information is multimedia, sensitive to its spatio-temporal roots, live, and dynamic. Current database and search technology is very limited in addressing organization, management, and access of emerging information systems. In this paper, we address some of the fundamental issues that must be addressed in general ...

Chronicles of Pharmacy

Vicious Chronicles of Virology

Presented in this article, aimed at both the virologists and non-virologists among the readers, are the dark episodes of virology. These anecdotes overshadow, in comparison, the effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb explosions, both in impact and magnitude. Needless-tosay, the episodes listed here involve viruses and may represent re-recording of largest outbreaks of some viral infectio...

Poststroke care: chronicles of a neglected battle.

See related article, pages 1899–1904. “Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world”. —Goethe (1749–1832) Major advances in acute stroke management have been seen over the past decade, including the use of thrombolysis, antithrombotic therapy, and organized in-hospital stroke care. However, relatively few studies have eval...