Gilbert Roberts, 18 February 1899 - 1 January 1978

Measles — California, January 1–April 18, 2014

Measles is a highly contagious, acute viral illness that can lead to severe complications and death. Even patients who experience uncomplicated acute measles have a small risk for developing a devastating neurologic illness, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, years after their infection. Measles was documented as eliminated (defined as interruption of continuous transmission lasting ≥12 month...

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978). Postman Reading Mail (Saturday Evening Post cover, 18 February 1922).

Norman Rockwell, North America’s most beloved and certainly best known illustrator, favored scenes of everyday life and reveled in his ability to tell stories. His Dickensian view of life drove him to paint the world as he would like it to be—no drunken fathers or self-centered mothers, only kindly doctors, duty-bound soldiers, and regular folks at their daily occupations. In his pictures, the ...

Letter from Dublin: A Memory of Micheál MacLiammóir (1899-1978).

In July 1976, aboard the Saint Patrick bound for Le Havre from Rosslare, I awaited my turn in a long queue to a small hatch from which a sullen girl served a murky fluid, coffee. Suddenly, my spirits lifted on hearing an unmistakable rich voice proclaim"Hilton, do you mean to say that they are unable to separate the milk from the tea on this damnable tub ?" And there, standing with a dripping p...

Memorandum January 18 , 2011

Salmonella and Campy/obaeter are two of the most common foodbome pathogens that produce illness in humans, causing an estimated> 1 million and >800,000 illnesses, respectively, due to food consumed in the United States. Most of these estimated illnesse s are not confirmed by culture. Exposure to poultry meat is an important risk factor for illness from both pathogens. Evidence for this link has...

Montague Maizels, 30 September 1899--10 February 1976.