Canadians respond to Katrina's devastation

LEAD: From Devastation Comes Hope

From devastation Comes Hope Even as the Gulf Coast grapples with possibly its worst environmental catastrophe ever, a silver lining has emerged from the devastation of the stormy summer of 2005: both soil lead levels and children’s blood lead levels fell dramatically across New Orleans, Louisiana, after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita swept in clean sediment over the city’s lead-contaminated soil.1...

A Melancholy Scene of Devastation

The chapters are simple and easy to follow with plenty of room along the margins to take additional notes. The clinical considerations at the end of each section are also helpful in showing how cell biology plays a role in pathology. For a quick review, this book also provides figures and tables that summarize the information in an integrative way. These figures are helpful in understanding the...

Vanishing Canadians.

Take a look around at your fellow Canadians, because they are slowly disappearing. All of the scenarios projected by Statistics Canada about population growth in Canada over the next 50 years show a “negative increase” (you’ve got to love bureaucratic language) in the number of births minus deaths.1 In the low-growth scenario for the Canadian population, the first year in which there will be mo...

Connecting Canadians with neuromuscular disease to research.

Healthy Canadians in 2010?