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Volume 19, Number 3 • July 2006
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Facts and ideas from anywhere

William C. Roberts, MD, Editor in Chief

Topics 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