Maritime Museum: Boston, Massachusetts

Preliminary program aaas annual meeting, Boston, massachusetts.

The Past Is Never Dead—Measles Epidemic, Boston, Massachusetts, 1713

he recent measles epidemic in the United States has aroused public disbelief that a disease well-controlled for decades is reemerging to threaten children in the United States. Controversy surrounds measles vaccination in the United States; some parents have even avoided vaccinating their healthy children by exposing them to measles-infected children. However, measles has repeatedly reemerged i...

Surgical Practice of the Lahey Clinic, Boston, Massachusetts

Hanse 1380 - A Learning Game for the German Maritime Museum

In an one year lasting project at the University of Applied Sciences in Bremerhaven a digital learning game for the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven was developed. It is targeted to school pupils in the age between 10 and 14 and should explain the importance of the cog for trading activities between Hanse cities in the 14th century. More detailed learning objectives were defined through a ...

A serotype VIII strain among colonizing group B streptococcal isolates in Boston, Massachusetts.

Maternal colonization with group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a risk factor for neonatal GBS disease. Whereas serotypes Ia, Ib, II, III, and V are prevalent in the United States, types VI and VIII predominate in Japan. Recently, a serotype VIII strain was detected among 114 clinical GBS isolates from a Boston, Mass., hospital.