The Pan-American Games’ development (1955-1959)

Cancer of the breast. Results of treatment in Northern Ireland, 1955-1959.

THE RESULTS of treatment presented in this paper are those obtained in Northern Ireland in certain cases of breast cancer during the years 1955 to 1959. The year 1955 was chosen for the start of the study, as in that year for the first time a sufficient number of simple mastectomies for comparison with radical mastectomies was carried out. For various reasons it was not possible to initiate a r...

Pan American Climate Studies

Over its ten-year lifetime, the Tropical OceanGlobal Atmosphere (TOGA) program (1985-1995) made major strides toward understanding the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, which impacts surface air temperature and rainfall over many regions of the globe. In particular, TOGA demonstrated the feasibility of operational seasonalto-interannual climate prediction of equatorial Pacific sea...

International cooperation in analytical chemistry: experience of antidoping control at the XI Pan American Games.

We describe the experience of the international cooperation carried out for antidoping control at the XI Pan American Games. A temporary accreditation was granted by the International Olympic Committee to the accredited laboratory of Barcelona (Spain) to set up a Doping Control Laboratory in Havana. Two other laboratories from Mexico and Cuba contributed personnel, materials, and instrumentatio...

Brazilian physiotherapy services in the 2007 Pan-American Games: injuries, their anatomical location and physiotherapeutic procedures.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess the profile of the treatments performed at the physiotherapy department of the Brazilian Olympic Committee during the 2007 Pan-American Games. STUDY DESIGN Observational study. PARTICIPANTS AND DESIGN Participants in this study included 434 athletes from the Brazilian Olympic Committee who were referred by the Brazilian medical department to...

Cancer Chemotherapy Supplement Xxxvi. a Bibliography of Agents. Supplement, 1955-1959.