Celebrating Some Milestones

Milestones celebrating key advances since 1840

Celebrating 75 Years of ASTHO: Milestones in Public Health Leadership

Nineteen years after John Snow deduced the famous link between London’s Broad Street water pump and a deadly cholera epidemic ravaging the English capital, a second consequential cholera outbreak erupted on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. The outbreak began in New Orleans in 1873 and spread along the major mercantile routes, killing hundreds of people.At the 1879 meeting of the Sanitary C...

Some Surgical Milestones

Some Milestones in Econometric Computing Introduction

The two papers in this section describe aspects of econometric computational developments during early years of the use of the electronic computer by economists. These papers and this journal section itself are part of an ongoing effort to bring to light the details of this use, a clarifying effort that began to achieve traction most noticeably in 2004 with the simultaneous publication of a spe...

The inaugural centennial lecture: celebrating milestones achieved and pondering the road ahead.

1 University Professor, Senior Consultant in Endocrinology and Immediate Past Vice-Chancellor National University of Singapore, Singapore Address for Correspondence: Professor Lim Pin, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Singapore 119074. Email: [email protected] I am deeply conscious of the conspicuous honour of being invited to deliver the inaugural...