The increasing volume of international commerce in the last century has resulted in an exchange of organisms at an alarming rate. Among those exhibiting a significant threat to forests are the bark and ambrosia beetles and their associated fungi. Between 1985 and 2005, 18 scolytinae species introductions to the U.S. were recorded, and others have been documented since (Haack 2006; Rabaglia et a...

Your Committee on Terminology begs t:o report that, owing to the con6itions arising out of the war, the work of the Committee has been practically suspended during the past year, but it is purpose4 now to continue it with vigor. Thus far four contributions to the subject have been. published, and, when the whole subject has been covered it is proposed that these be combined and published as an ...

T his issue of Pediatric Annals includes a series of fascinating pe-diatric cases that are very educational. As noted by Stan L. Block, MD, FAAP, this is his last " Healthy Baby " column—at least for a while. Stan, the self-styled small town " country doctor, " has done a fabulous job of writing a column each month on a topic relevant to general pediatrics. We are greatly indebted to his outsta...

A recent position paper by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stresses that surveillance is critical to an effective defense against new and reemerg-ing infectious diseases and indicates that current international monitoring of such diseases is fragmentary and inadequate (1). Other major studies have also recorded the weaknesses in the present disease reporting system (2-4). T...

Authors' disclosures of potential conflicts of interest are found at the end of this article. C omprehensive survivor-ship care planning (SCP) is an essential component of quality cancer care. Since the 2006 seminal publication of the Institute of Medicine's report on cancer survivorship, it has been unclear which models of cancer sur-vivorship care translate to improved patient and system outc...

POLICYFORUM A t least two dozen companies now market " genetic ancestry tests " to help consumers reconstruct their family histories and determine the geographic origins of their ancestors. More than 460,000 people have purchased these tests over the past 6 years (1), and public interest is still skyrocketing (1–4). Some scientists support this enterprise because it makes genetics accessible an...

To the Editor: The year 2009 was the 100th anniversary of Carlos Cha-gas's discovery of the disease caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, now known as Chagas disease. Spread by infected bugs called triatomines, the disease is endemic throughout much of Mexico and Central and South Ameri-ca. An estimated 8–11 million persons in Latin America have the disease (1). T. cruzi infection causes mo...

A s an oncology nurse practitioner with a busy breast cancer practice, I would spend more than my share of time coordinating patient care. You know the drill: referrals to specialists, insurance pre-authorizations for diagnostic tests, assisting patients in completing applications for indigent care or pharmaceutical benefit programs, and a host of other services to provide high-quality cancer c...

Decades ago Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote, " We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both. " We now live in what has been christened a " new gilded age. " Wealth in the United States is indeed concentrated in the hands of a few— more so than at any time since the 1920s. In this book I examine the rela...

tion from the typical copyright page you might expect in a scholarly book. Instead, what you find is a Creative Commons license (Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0). Right away, the reader may suspect that this work about copyright might itself exemplify the complex issues it examines within. Indeed, as the preface of the book states in " A Note on Copyright Ownership " : " The i...