The article is devoted to the 100th anniversary of birth Selezneva Valentina Trofimovna Doctor Medical Sciences, professor, teacher, public health organizer, figure, historian medicine, Head Department Social Hygiene and Organization Public Healthcare Medicopreventive Faculty Perm State Academy. In 1947, she graduated with honors from Sanitary-Hygienic Molotov Institute, in 1950 postgraduate co...

A century ago, Thomas Hunt Morgan, the American scientist, studied the cytogenetic changes of drosophila and came to cytogenetic explanation of Mendel's basic laws of genetic heredity. These studies resulted in today's Mendel-Morgan chromosomal theory of heredity. On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of this important discovery the authors have decided to give a review of the most signi...

Florence Nightingale, the “Lady With the Lamp,” is an iconic figure who is widely credited with establishing nursing as a profession that makes important contributions to patient care. Her best known publication, Notes on Nursing, was first published 150 years ago, and August 13, 2010, will commemorate the 100th anniversary of her death. Health care has changed substantially since Nightingale’s...

As part of its 100th-anniversary celebration, the Pan American Health Organization has named 12 persons as "Public Health Heroes of the Americas" in recognition of their noteworthy contributions to public health in the Region of the Americas. Over the course of this year, the Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública/Pan American Journal of Public Health will be carrying pieces written by or about ...

The first 4 cases of Alzheimer's disease published by Alois Alzheimer's laboratory were authored by the young Italian physician Gaetano Perusini. In his discourse, ''Uber klinisch und histologisch eigenartige Erkrankungen des späteren Lebensalters'' Perusini describes 4 cases of histological and clinical findings of peculiar psychiatric diseases of older age. With regard to case number II, Peru...