In memoriam Cornelis Dirk Grijns (3 July 1924 - 19 August 1999)

Research Activities #228, July/August 1999

Research studies suggest that a smaller proportion of women with angina (crushing chest pain) have coronary artery disease (CAD) than men with angina. This may have contributed to the perception that chest pain is less serious in women. However, CAD risk is raised in certain women with angina. This is particularly true for women who have a poor cardiovascular risk profile and more physical symp...

In memoriam. Mirko Drazen Grmek (1924-2000).

In memoriam: Herbert Stahl August 3, 1942-April 22, 2013

After a prolonged and arduous fight with cancer, our beloved Herbert Robert Stahl1 died in his 71st year on April 22, 2013, in Berlin. Herbert was born on August 3, 1942, in Fehl-Ritzhausen, in the German state of RheinlandPfalz. At the age of 16, he started to work as an electrician for Allgemeine ElektricitätsGesellschaft (AEG, General Electricity Company), and by the time of his retirement i...

In Memoriam: Robert M. Chanock, MD, 1924–2010.

The world of biomedical science lost a revered leader on July 30, 2010, with the death of Robert M. Chanock (Figure 1), age 86, at Copper Ridge residential care center, Sykesville, Maryland, from complications related to Alzheimer’s disease. Bob Chanock’s impact on infectious diseases in the last half of the twentieth century was unparalleled. In a 1967 reference to Bob’s first decade at the Na...

SELECTED , RECENT ACQUISITIONS July - August

Aznar, F. Javier, et al. 2001. Establishing the relative importance of sympatric definitive hosts in the transmission of the sealworm, Pseudoterranova decipiens: a host-community approach, pp. 161171 In: Geneviève Desportes and Gary McClelland, editors, Sealworms in the North Atlantic: ecology and population dynamics. North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission, Tromso. NMML BOOK COLLECTION QL128 ....