Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) has arguably been one of the most successful public-health grassroots citizen advocacy organizations in the United States in the past century. In 2005, MADD celebrated the 25th anniversary of its founding. Based on a national poll by the Gallup Organization in 2005, MADD is recognized by 94% of citizens. It is generally given credit for changing American att...

After graduating more than 12,000 doctors since its founding in 1999, Cuba's Latin American Medical School (ELAM, the Spanish acronym) is tackling one of its greatest challenges to date: how to track graduates from over 65 countries and measure their impact on health outcomes and policy in their local contexts?

It is a great pleasure to introduce this Special Issue celebrating the third year since founding of Reproductive Medicine [...]

as a formal discipline, 15 years since the first American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology certifications in child neurology, and just over 10 years since the founding of the Child Neurology Society. n2 Through that quarter century our fledgling specialty had spoken only when permitted by the sufferance of its neurologic parents and older siblings. The Child Neurology Society had become affili...

The paper outlines the development of shape theory since its founding by K. Borsuk 30 years ago to the present days. As a motivation for introducing shape theory, some shortcomings of homotopy theory in dealing with spaces of irregular local behavior are described. Special attention is given to the contributions to shape theory made by the Zagreb topology group.