To paraphrase the ubiquitous warning applied to the perverse products of the tobacco industry, ‘breathing may be dangerous to your health’, in particular if you are a lung transplant recipient. This is especially true if you live near a major road in a region with high levels of trafficrelated air pollution. Alone among solid organ transplants, the lung allograft is exposed to the ambient envir...

Inheritance powder is the name that was given to poisons, especially arsenic, that were commonly used in the 17th and early 18th centuries to hasten the death of the elderly. For most of the 17th century, arsenic was deadly but undetectable, making it nearly impossible to prove that someone had been poisoned. The first arsenic test produced a gas—hardly something that a scientist could show to ...

Of all the risk factors for premature death, the air we breathe is one area over which patients and doctors have little control. In cities health professionals care for patients in environments where air pollution can aggravate existing illness, mostly cardiovascular and respiratory disease, and also damage children’s hearts and lungs as they develop. Today we report that more than half of 2200...

This "action paper"was discussed at the Learning First Alliance S u m m i t on Reading and Mathematics held in Washington, D.C, January 26 28, 1998. Tbe paper is the collective work o f the Learning First Alliance Board o f Directors. It has been inf o r m e d by m a n y distinguished experts in reading. We are pleased to acknowledge the assistance o f Robert Slavin, Johns Hopkins University, a...