Fukushima on a Long Road to Recovery From Earthquake Devastation

Devastation after the Haiti Earthquake: a neurosurgeon's Journal.

ithin 24 hours of the incident, neurosurgeons arrived in Port au rince to provide medical care and assistance. Barth A. Green, .D., chairman of Neurosurgery at the University of Miami, led ne of these efforts as he has had a long-standing program to rovide medical care in the impoverished nation: Project Medshare, a nonprofit international aid organization at the Univerity of Miami. A300-bed te...

The Long Road to Eradicate Rinderpest

My recovery: a long, winding yellow brick road.

When I was 19, a crisis precipitated by a psychotic episode induced by experimentation with drugs resulted in an emergency hospitalization and my finally coming into treatment with a psychiatrist. I responded to the therapy and the medication I was given. I was able to complete college, make and keep new friends, and thrive again. The torrents of confusion, emptiness, and self-destructive behav...

Regional Difference on Road Recovery in Iwate Prefecture Following the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake

In a previous study, we have calculated the usable road distance in the southern coastal area of Iwate Prefecture following the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. In this context, a usable road is one on which at least one vehicle has been probed during the observation period. If the accumulative usable distance up to September 30, 2011 is considered as 100%, then the percentage of the usable road distanc...

From Hiroshima to Fukushima

Japan has been the victim of the worst two nuclear disasters in the world. In the first event, on Monday, August 6 th 1945 (just 66 years ago), Hiroshima was bombarded by an American B-29 plane dropping the first atomic bomb on a civilian target. 1 The damage was incredible. Recent estimates of death toll in Hiro-shima bombing indicates between 90,000 up to 166,000 deaths most of them occurred ...