‘Cos I’m a Survivor’

A Balamuthia survivor

INTRODUCTION This case report describes a human survivor of Balamuthia mandrillaris infection. This is a free-living amoeba that can cause infection with the devastating consequence of near universally fatal encephalitis. We report this case to demonstrate the possibility of recovery. CASE PRESENTATION A 26-year-old Hispanic male, a landscape gardener, presented to the hospital in March 2010 ...

Cos 594d: a Theorist’s Toolkit

These are edited lecture notes from a graduate course at the Computer Science department of Princeton University in Fall 2002. The course was my attempt to teach first year graduate students students many mathematical tools useful in theoretical computer science. Of course, the goal was too ambitious for a course with 12 three hour lectures. I had to relegate some topics to homework; these incl...

Massive chloroquine overdose--a survivor.

Large chloroquine overdoses are almost inevitably fatal. We describe the presentation and management of a patient with such an overdose who survived, due to general supportive care and new specific treatment.

COS 217, Spring 2005

Survivor Swaps

This paper discusses the possible uses of survivor swaps as instruments for managing, hedging and trading mortality-dependent risks. Survivor swaps are attractive instruments for insurance companies that need to manage their mortality risks, but also offer banks, securities firms, hedge funds and other interested parties an easy avenue into the acquisition of mortality risk exposure. The paper ...