Background: Sun exposure, particularly during childhood, is an important contributing factor in developing melanoma later in life. Objective: To develop a family-centered, self-reinforcing sun protection educational intervention that supports pediatrician’s anticipatory guidance and assess the feasibility of delivering the sun protection intervention in pediatrician offices, and use of sun prot...

A peer-reviewed two-volume book of the memoirs was written by a person passionate about his work. Real, genuine speech is heard here, giving away both Moscovite, scientist, and personality with magnificent sarcastic flair. The V. S. Veselovskiy Problems Our Life are one most informative, noticeable interesting publications this kind in 21st century Russia, they should be included mandatory read...

In four studies, we show that people who anticipate more personal change over time give more to others. We measure and manipulate participants' beliefs in the persistence of the defining psychological features of a person (e.g., his or her beliefs, values, and life goals) and measure generosity, finding support for the hypothesis in three studies using incentive-compatible charitable donation d...

In 2005 charitable giving in the United States totaled over $260 billon, or around 1.9% of personal income, making it a significant fraction of the economy. Individual giving accounted for 77% of this total, while foundations accounted for 12%, bequests for 7%, and corporations for 5% (Giving USA, 2006). Almost 70% of US households report giving to charity. While the US typically has one of the...

Arrav Head-Quarters, bnnla, renders what he has "to say on many questions of hygiene of special value to the public health officer m India, and the book is eminently practical in its advice and recommendations. There is little need m our giving a synopsis of its contents; the table of contents is the same as that of volumes many times its size. Air, ventilation, water and water-supply, food and...

This book is a reprint of papers originally contributed to " Colburn's United Service Magazine." Its scope is ambitious. It aims to present a history of the aid which medical art and medical men have rendered in war from the earliest times,?among the Greeks and Romans, Crusaders and Normans, and in the English Army since their time. The history is brought down to the year 1860, when the first c...

The literature of English spas has hitherto been meagre in the extreme; but Bath has recently done its best to make up for the deficiency. Book after book has emanated from that city, each in its turn giving an account of the history of the city and its baths, its climate, and the advantages to the invalid from a residence within it. This, the latest of the series, differs from its predecessors...

Towards Peace of Mind. Everyday Problems of Mental health. By Karl M. Bowman, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Boston Psychopathic Hospital. With a Preface by Professor Cyril Burt. Allen & Unwin, Ltd. 6/-. This is a book giving the essentials of modern psychology and its practical deductions in nontechnical language intelligible to any educated reader however slight his previous knowledge of the su...