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Volume 20, Number 4 • October 2007		 Arrow Bullet Return to Table of Contents
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Facts and ideas from anywhere

William C. Roberts, MD, Editor in Chief

Topics covered in this issue:
•  Fat attracts fat
•  Ten foods to avoid
•  Hot dog eating contest
•  School absenteeism and body weight
•  Smoking and taxes
•  Marijuana
•  Cocaine
•  Breast enhancement and suicide
•  Road fatalities
•  Vehicle ratings and driving safety
•  War costs
•  US employees in Iraq
•  Terrorist doctors
•  Moscow, 1941-1945
•  Football trauma and the 1977 Super Bowl Champion Dallas Cowboys
•  Unidentified human remains
•  Tenuous balance between costs of prescription drugs and pharmaceutical innovations
•  The Merck Manual, 18th edition: still the best
•  New guidelines regarding prophylactic antibiotic therapy
   before dental procedures in patients with cardiac conditions
•  Drug-resistant bacteria and the Pittsburgh Veterans Affairs Hospital
•  Where the USA ranks among other nations in health care
•  Medical blogs
•  RateMDs.com
•  Number of words spoken daily
•  Live to work vs work to live
•  Older Americans and financial power
•  Marriage of the world's tallest man
•  Eddie "The King" Feigner
•  Manners