Commissioner Gottlieb and the Crusade Against Opioid Abuse: Baptism by Fire

The Crusade against Vermin

being to another. To destroy all peccant mosquitos and rats in places where malaria or plague exists or may be expected is a very large order and not easy to execute. And, after all, it is very questionable whether mosquito and rat intermediacy expresses the whole truth as regards the propagation of malarial fevers and plague. These measures, in as far as they are practicable, may be useful as ...

The Crusade against the Mosquito

A crusade against home birth.

A recent study by Grunebaum et al examined the relationship between place of birth and adverse neonatal outcomes (Apgar of 0 at 5 minutes, and neonatal seizures or serious neurologic dysfunction—hereafter referred to as neonatal seizures) as reported in birth certificate data from 2007 to 2010 for term newborns (n = 13,891,274) (1). Outcomes were analyzed by four practitioner types: hospital ph...

Baptism of fire of a Web-based design assistant

DYNAMO – a Dynamic Architectural Memory On-line – is a Web-based design assistant to support architectural design education. The tool is conceived as an (inter-)active workhouse rather than a passive warehouse: it is interactively developed by and actively develops its users' design knowledge. Its most important feature is not merely that it presents students with design cases, but that those c...

Britain's Christmas Crusade against drinking and driving.

Great Britain's 1983 "Christmas Crusade" against drunken drivers, during which the police of England and Wales administered an average of 1350 breath tests daily, is discussed. Although not deliberately planned and organized, the campaign, fueled by press reports, was perceived by many observes to be a national organized deterrent effort. To test the hypothesis that the crusade reduced drunken ...