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Past Issue: Volume 20, Number 3 • July 2007 |
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Facts and ideas from anywhereWilliam C. Roberts, MD, Editor in ChiefTopics covered in this issue: • John Snow, the Broad Street pump, the ghost map, and cholera • Yellow fever in Memphis • Unnecessary presidential death • The Chamberlen forceps • Celebrity patients • Mandatory health insurance • Tobacco, China, the World Health Organization, and Ireland • "Fire-safe" cigarettes • Costs of generic drugs • Sleep • Increasing cancer burden • The real doctor in the house • Splitting livers • Hand transplantation • Attrition rates in US medical schools • Biobanks (genome databases, human genetic research databases) • Work illness, work injury, and body weight • Print on pill bottles • Banning junk food at schools • For good nutrition • Atkins diet fortune • Animal speed • Total number of organisms • US population and its infrastructure growth • The biggest metro areas and changing demographics • Commuting • Oil • Travel fatigue vs jet lag • Fire and rain • Perpetual drought • Federal income taxes • Federal government debt • Chinese reserves • High schools and colleges • College without fees • Mass murders at Virginia Tech and gun control laws • Newspaper reading • Retirement age 60 for commercial pilots • First official female marathoner • Death penalty • Blair/Bush vs Huntington |
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