Facts and ideas from anywhere

William C. Roberts, MD, Editor in Chief

Topics:

Antibiotic-resistant organisms grown from retail meat samples
Controlling high blood pressure
Impact of high "normal" blood pressure on risk of cardiovascular disease
Hormone replacement therapy and blood pressure
Hormone replacement therapy and dry eye syndrome
High blood cholesterol awareness
Egg-laying hens in the USA
Effect of statins on aortic valve stenosis
Effects of ACE inhibitors and beta-blockers in blacks vs whites with congestive heart failure
Left ventricular assist device for end-stage heart failure
Using an ACE inhibitor to prevent development of diabetes mellitus
Angiotensin receptor antagonist and nephropathy from diabetes mellitus
Fattest cities in the USA
Usefulness of insulin therapy in critically ill patients in the surgical ICU
Cardiac rehabilitation
Propranolol after severe burns
Risk of uterine rupture during labor among women with a prior cesarian delivery
Auto-cesarian section
Maternal injury and fetal death
Otitis media in children
South Africa and AIDS
Suicide prevention
NSAIDS and Alzheimer's disease
Relation of alcohol to breast cancer
Outcomes of weekday vs weekend hospital admissions
Dog bites
Problem and pathological gambling
Traveling in air vs traveling on the ground
Air travel and pulmonary embolism
Less than 4000 sudden deaths
Bombs and food from planes in Afghanistan
Smallpox
Celebrating 100 years of the Nobel Prize
Managed care's demise
"Old" is when . . .
Ten great feuds in medicine
Recombinant DNA
Life expectancy for women and men at selected ages
Astre's semen
Samuel Goldwyn

(BUMC Proceedings 2002;15:107-118)