Commentary: George W. Comstock--Always a Teacher

The ongoing legacy--the George W. Comstock Center for Public Health Research and Prevention.

Benign breast disease (BBD) is a risk factor for breast cancer and may have a heritable component. Deficient DNA repair has been implicated in breast cancer etiology and may exert its effect before BBD, a known precursor. The association between allelic variants in DNA repair genes and BBD was examined in a cohort of women in Washington County, Maryland. BBD was defined by two criteria: (a) a p...

The Presidency of George W . Bush

Following the tragic events of 9/11, when al Qaeda terrorists crashed three airplanes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Americans turned their frightened eyes toward George W. Bush to see just what kind of president he would be. Most people weren't sure what they would find. The new president was still hard to define. His campaign in 2000 had sent mixed signals on a variety of issue...

Richard A . Shweder George W . Bush & the missionary position

Dædalus Summer 2004 Jesus Christ is George W. Bush’s favorite political philosopher–or so he said in a Republican primary debate leading up to his nomination. And the president’s sense of mission runs deep. Speaking with evangelical zeal well over a year before the invasion of Iraq, President Bush delivered one of his earliest and most broadly appealing justi1⁄2cations for the project of global...

Commentary: Similar Philosophy Does Not Always Synchronize

Symptomatic Linburg-Comstock syndrome: a case report.

The authors report the case of a 39-year-old woman with pain in the right dominant hand after initiating a crafts course. Clinical examination revealed tenderness on the volar side of the thumb and wrist. Simultaneous flexion of the distal interphalangeal joint of the index finger with flexion of the interphalangeal joint of the thumb was observed. Operative procedure confirmed the presumed dia...