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Q & A: Barnyard Pestilence
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, The New York Times, May 26, 2009
Q. Did all human infectious diseases originate in domesticated animals?
A. Of 25 infectious diseases that have historically caused high mortality in human beings, many probably or possibly reached humans from domesticated animals, according to a major review article published in Nature in 2007.
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In a Time of Quotas, a Quiet Pose in Defiance
By BARRON H. LERNER, The New York Times, May 26, 2009
As a Jewish physician practicing medicine in 2009, I hardly ever pay attention to my religious affiliation.
But in the years before World War II, at my institution and at other medical schools, Judaism was very much on people’s minds. Informal quotas limited the numbers of Jewish medical students and physicians.
Within hospital walls, some non-Jewish physicians supported the quotas and others opposed them. An untold story from Columbia’s Neurological Institute demonstrates an ingenious attempt by one physician to thwart what he believed was an unjust policy.
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Autopsies of War Dead Reveal Ways to Save Others
By DENISE GRADY, The New York Times, May 26, 2009
Within an hour after the bodies arrive in their flag-draped coffins at Dover Air Force Base, they go through a process that has never been used on the dead from any other war.
Since 2004, every service man and woman killed in Iraq or Afghanistan has been given a CT scan, and since 2001, when the fighting began in Afghanistan, all have had autopsies, performed by pathologists in the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System. In previous wars, autopsies on people killed in combat were uncommon, and scans were never done.
The combined procedures have yielded a wealth of details about injuries from bullets, blasts, shrapnel and burns — information that has revealed deficiencies in body armor and vehicle shielding and led to improvements in helmets and medical equipment used on the battlefield.
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By C. CLAIBORNE RAY, The New York Times, May 26, 2009
Q. Did all human infectious diseases originate in domesticated animals?
A. Of 25 infectious diseases that have historically caused high mortality in human beings, many probably or possibly reached humans from domesticated animals, according to a major review article published in Nature in 2007.
( Read More )
In a Time of Quotas, a Quiet Pose in Defiance
By BARRON H. LERNER, The New York Times, May 26, 2009
As a Jewish physician practicing medicine in 2009, I hardly ever pay attention to my religious affiliation.
But in the years before World War II, at my institution and at other medical schools, Judaism was very much on people’s minds. Informal quotas limited the numbers of Jewish medical students and physicians.
Within hospital walls, some non-Jewish physicians supported the quotas and others opposed them. An untold story from Columbia’s Neurological Institute demonstrates an ingenious attempt by one physician to thwart what he believed was an unjust policy.
( Read More )
Autopsies of War Dead Reveal Ways to Save Others
By DENISE GRADY, The New York Times, May 26, 2009
Within an hour after the bodies arrive in their flag-draped coffins at Dover Air Force Base, they go through a process that has never been used on the dead from any other war.
Since 2004, every service man and woman killed in Iraq or Afghanistan has been given a CT scan, and since 2001, when the fighting began in Afghanistan, all have had autopsies, performed by pathologists in the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System. In previous wars, autopsies on people killed in combat were uncommon, and scans were never done.
The combined procedures have yielded a wealth of details about injuries from bullets, blasts, shrapnel and burns — information that has revealed deficiencies in body armor and vehicle shielding and led to improvements in helmets and medical equipment used on the battlefield.
( Read More )
