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+ Leprosy: Fifty Years of Progress

The first technical issue of the Boletin de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana, published in 1922, was dedicated to leprosy. During the intervening SO years considerable progress has been made in understanding the disease, leading to benefit for the patient and more effective control. Movement away from institutionalization and toward ambulatory care for patients plus new and effective treatment...

Fifty Years of Medical Progress, 1873-1922

Congestive heart failure: fifty years of progress.

Volume 1 of Circulation provides an excellent snapshot of the understanding of the mechanisms and treatment of heart failure a half century ago. During that era, circulatory pathophysiology was at the center of investigative attention. For example, Tinsley Harrison and his group divided heart failure into “primary disorders of filling and primary disorders of emptying,”1 a forerunner of our cur...

Reflecting on fifty years of progress for women in science.

L ike young women today, 50 years ago I too assumed that gender discrimination in science was a thing of the past. Girls who grew up in America in the Sputnik era, as I did, were encouraged to become scientists. By 1964, when I graduated from college with a major in biology, I thought it entirely possible I’d win a Nobel prize. Why not? Dorothy Hodgkin won one that year. At Harvard, my professo...

Real Progress: Fifty Years Of USAID in Costa Rica