the sequencing of the human genome was an enormous achievement in more than one sense as both the annotated sequence and the bioinformatics tools developed have become enormously important to biomedical research. in addition, the technological advances made during the project have further promoted the new ‘-omics’ approach in molecular biology research; it is a global, systematic and comprehens...

Soldiers in the South Pacific theater during World War II get their daily dose of atabrine, described by the artist as “the famous new malaria medicine.” Atabrine was used by the allies because Japan controlled the sources of quinine, the main malaria treatment of the pre-atabrine era. The artist also mentioned that “these pills turn you about the color of a lemon.” It was the control of malari...

We are all children at heart. When we want something, we want it now and are willing to trust in fate if it means that we can get it now. Many bird owners are like this. They want a bird, so they buy it. They don’t necessarily spend the time to research the source of the bird, and often there is little money left over to make sure that their purchase is healthy. Many people buy birds and know v...

John R. Paul, Professor of Preventive Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine, wrote numerous monographs and papers defining and delimiting the field of preventive medicine and its fundamental science, clinical epidemiology. For Dr. Paul, preventive medicine was part of the continuum of clinical medicine; others believed that it was a separate entity deserving of departmental status....