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Past Issue: Volume 19, Number 3 • July 2006 |
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Facts and ideas from anywhereWilliam C. Roberts, MD, Editor in ChiefTopics covered this issue: Middle East medicine Consanguinity Personal hygiene in Islam German ingenuity Suicides in Japan San Francisco, April 18, 1906 The South Asian earthquake of October 8, 2005 Chernobyl 20 years later Falling cigarette sales Increasing life span Health insurance or a financial penalty Food buying by beer buyers versus wine buyers Unplanned pregnancies and income Level of education and amount of coronary calcium Prayer and coronary bypass Green tea, caffeine, and diabetes mellitus High serum bilirubin levels in newborns Mumps Motivational deficiency disorder UnitedHealth and William McGuire, MD Sixth-largest employer Changing face of Dallas $3 gasoline in the USA Dressmakers combating increasing weight in women "Cheese" What is a billion? What we remember |