On January 5, 2015, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) was notified about a suspected measles case. The patient was a hospitalized, unvaccinated child, aged 11 years with rash onset on December 28. The only notable travel history during the exposure period was a visit to one of two adjacent Disney theme parks located in Orange County, California. On the same day, CDPH received re...

PURPOSE To determine if the presence of observers affects muscular strength performance in college-age males and females. METHODS Twenty-five women and 24 men participated in the study. Two counter-balanced trials were performed in which participants completed 1-RM tests in bench press and leg press. During one trial, two members of the opposite gender observed the 1-RM tests. During the othe...

I argue for an idealist ontology consistent with empirical observations, which seeks to explain the facts of nature more parsimoniously than physicalism and bottom-up panpsychism. This ontology also attempts to offer more explanatory power than both physicalism and bottom-up panpsychism, in that it does not fall prey to either the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ or the ‘subject combination prob...

The structure function of a random function can be determined in a manner similar to that described in Press, Rybicki & Hewitt (1992) by constructing a histogram of square differences of the measured continuum as a function of time difference and fitting the resulting points with a power law or other parameterized law. However, here we shall use methods based on Bayes theorem that are better mo...

The experience described here is part of an extensive program that aims to stimulate schools to develop health integrated projects from theme generators, i.e., themes that have a meaning for the community. It was developed in Jaboticatubas, a town in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, capital of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and the focus was schistosomiasis. The selection was base...

If success of a scientific study is measured by how much conversation it triggers, then the article “Variation in Cancer Risk Among Tissues Can Be Explained by the Number of Stem Cell Divisions” has been very successful.(1) Unfortunately, the ensuing public discussion demonstrates how flawed communications can turn potentially valuable research into a public health failure. In addition to raisi...

T he Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in May 2008 issued new guidance to medical licensees relative to the post–radioiodine therapy release of individuals likely to come in contact with infants and/or young children (see the NRC press release reproduced on the facing Newsline page). A careful reading of the press release, the Regulatory Issue Summary (RIS) to which it refers, and the Federal...

About one year prior to the earthquake, the JMA’s Committee on Emergency and Disaster Medicine proposed that Japan Medical Association Team (JMAT) be formed and issued a press release to that effect. The JMA decided to form JMAT on March 15, 2011, in response to the earthquake, and requested that prefectural medical associations nationwide send JMAT to the affected areas as emergency medical re...

The purpose of this study was to investigate acute neuromuscular and endocrine responses and recovery to a single session of combined endurance and strength loading using 2 loading orders. Forty-two men were demographically matched to perform a single session of combined endurance + strength (E + S) or strength + endurance (S + E) loading. The strength loading was conducted on a leg press and i...

This study compared the number of bilateral leg presses done at 150% of body mass while on either Muscle Sentry® (MS) or placebo (PL). Participants (16 women, 14 men, college students 19-26 years) performed 2 sets of leg press to failure using 150% of their body mass with 5 min rest separating the 2 sets. Each exercise was performed twice (1× MS, 1× PL) at the same time of day with 48 h separat...