Rural Revitalization in New Mexico

Transportation Matters: A Health Impact Assessment in Rural New Mexico

This Health Impact Assessment (HIA) informed the decision of expanding public transportation services to rural, low income communities of southern Doña Ana County, New Mexico on the U.S./Mexico border. The HIA focused on impacts of access to health care services, education, and economic development opportunities. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected from surveys of community members...

Rural Research Report: LeClaire, Iowa: What Revitalization Can Accomplish

The past few decades have seen many downtowns across the U.S., especially in small rural cities, experience declines. Adding to the problem, globalization has changed the Midwest forever with offshore competition for routine jobs. Traditional small family farms are vanishing, steel mills have closed, and many factories have shrunk or moved overseas. The Midwest, which was once a symbol of stabi...

Revitalization of biostatic tissue allografts: new perspectives in tissue transplantology.

BACKGROUND Biostatic (nonvital) tissue allografts have been used for temporary replacement as well as to trigger, stimulate, and ensure space for the regeneration of a recipient's own tissues. Examples of biostatic allografts routinely used in clinic are bone, tendons, skin, and amniotic membrane. A characteristic feature of biostatic allografts is the lack of living cells. In the recipient's b...

Typhus Group Rickettsiae Antibodies in Rural Mexico

However, rather than suggesting that a single case report “contradicts” the anterior horn cell hypothesis, we suggest that WNV-associated flaccid paralysis be viewed as having a spectrum of causes, one of which certainly is poliomyelitis like illness. The neuropathologic findings in poliomyelitis (due to poliovirus, WNV, or other viruses) are not restricted focally to the anterior horn cells (5...

Land Revitalization