1 Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 3 Department of Biology, B...

Yoshitsugu Obi and Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh Harold Simmons Center for Kidney Disease Research and Epidemiology, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California, USA; Nephrology Section, Tibor Rubin Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Long Beach, California, USA; and Department of Epidemiology, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angel...

New Blood and Binders (George Humphrey, vice president of the Arizona Health Sciences Center office of public affairs) 07/04/2013 Tucson Weekly View Clip UA project aims to help firefighters cope with loss (Patricia Haynes, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the U of A and director of the UA Stress and Trauma Recover Center)

Some enlightened members of the general public appear to possess clearer comprehension concerning the forfeited responsibility of the medical profession for this state of affairs than many physicians. Kimberly Bergalis, a young woman who contracted AIDS from her infected dentist [6], had denounced the entire medical profession for her tragic fate before she died: -“I blame all of you...You bast...

947 THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF the American Thyroid Association (ATA) for iodine nutrition during pregnancy have been reviewed by the ATA’s Public Affairs Committee in this issue of Thyroid (1). The members of this committee are highly distinguished thyroidologists whose extensive experience brought together can only be equaled by the length of their individual professional careers (incidentally, I...

Department of Allergy and Immunology, Saitama Medical School, Saitama 350-0495; Department of International Affairs and Tropical Medicine, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, School of Medicine, Tokyo 162-8666; Department of Public Health, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Tokyo 181-8611; Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan; and Department...

municipality, as one of the most important legal entities in the urban management, can play an effective role in providing local public services and administration of some local public affairs. the role of the municipality in urban management is different rangin from full authority to implementation of small affairs. the place and importance of the municipality is determined by the laws and leg...

1. Department of Health Economics & Outcomes Research, IMS Health Asia Pacific, Singapore 2. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China. 3. Department of Medical affairs, Pfizer China, Beijing, China 4. Department of Health Economics & Outcomes ...