An epidemic without enmity: explaining the missing ethnic tensions in New Haven's 1918 influenza epidemic.
In the autumn of 1918, as troops in Europe waged the final battles of the First World War, city health officials in New Haven, Connecticut--and worldwide--began to confront a virulent and highly infectious strain of influenza. With over a thousand reported deaths and thousands more reported infections among the...

Public health, yellow fever, and the making of modern Tampico.
In the nineteenth century, emergent cities were important to Mexico's becoming a modern nation-state. Our understanding of the process, however, remains incomplete. There are abundant studies of the process for Mexico City, but a limited number analyze the role of secondary cities in the formation of the modern nation-state....

Influenza pandemic: nothing to sneeze about?
ONF-06-47-I This independent study has been developed to provide nurses with an overview of influenza and influenza-like illnesses. 1.5 contact hour will be awarded. The Ohio Nurses Foundation (OBN-001-91) is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission...

Scientific Errors and Controversies in the U.5. HIV/AIDS Epidemic: How They Slowed Advances and Were Resolved.
Holmberg, Scott D. Scientific Errors and Controversies in the U.5. HIV/AIDS Epidemic: How They Slowed Advances and Were Resolved. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2008; www.praeger.com Part history, part narrative, and principally a scientific autopsy, this book is an insider's account of the errors, controversies, and corrections that...

"Waiter, there are calories in my coffee!".
For more than 10 years, Nutrition Facts panels have appeared on almost every food in the grocery store. But when we eat out, it's a crap shoot. And that hurts us. Americans eat about a third of their calories away from home, and those calories are in some measure...

Making HIV tests 'Routine': concerns and implications.
Well over two decades after the AIDS epidemic burst onto the American scene, an estimated 40,000-55,000 people in the United States are still newly infected each year--a statistic that has remained relatively unchanged since 1998. A staggering one in four individuals with HIV--about 250,000 Americans--are believed to be unaware...

Export Action Line; The lure of medical tourism Part III.
Byline: Nelly Favis-Villafuerte The medical tourism industry is now fast becoming a global multibillion-dollar industry. More and more countries are looking at medical tourism as an opportunity to promote both their medical services and their tourism industry in just one package deal. One such country is Cuba....

Kidney risk may rise with high fructose consumption.
Mounting evidence linking high consumption of fructose to an increased risk of kidney disease could have clinical implications for the treatment of high-risk patients. Data from recent studies suggest that high fructose intake causes elevated uric acid levels, which might contribute to the development of kidney stones...

High fructose intake may increase kidney risks.
Mounting evidence linking high consumption of fructose to an increased risk of kidney disease could have clinical implications for the treatment of high-risk patients. Data from recent studies suggest high fructose intake causes elevated uric acid levels, which might contribute to the development of kidney stones and...

The quarantine quandary.
When globetrotting groom Andrew Speaker was discovered to be carrying tuberculosis (TB) germs in May 2007, virtually no one questioned that the state should and could protect us from him. Apparently, healthy citizens suddenly lose their rights upon becoming ill; contagious folks who disobey public-health officials may be forcibly...