Facts and ideas from anywhere

William C. Roberts, MD, Editor in Chief

Topics covered this issue:

•  President Clinton's cholesterol numbers
•  Health care costs of obese vs nonobese individuals
•  Body weight and air travel
•  Pedometers
•  More guidelines for treatment of hypertension
•  Demagoguery
•  Assisted living facility vs cruise ship living for the elderly
•  Our older folks
•  An exhibition at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC
•  Personal and governmental debt
•  When is one seriously rich?
•  Motor vehicle crashes and animals
•  Coming physician shortage
•  Sex concordance between patient and physician
•  Physicians and pharmaceutical companies
•  She writes more than most read
•  US war deaths
•  Ignac Semmelweis and childbed fever
•  Nurse-midwives in the USA
•  John Snow, cholera, and the pump handle in London
•  Joseph Goldberger, pellagra, niacin, and atherosclerosis
•  Dale Paschal Jones