INFANTILE MORTALITY AND ITS PRINCIPAL CAUSE DIRTY MILK

Could dirty air cause diabetes?

Diabetes is a growing epidemic, and it has become arguably one of the biggest health challenges of our time. Currently, more than 23 million Americans have diabetes, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that in the last 15 years, the number of people in the United States with diabetes has more than doubled. Diabetes is increasing at an alarming rate in Europe as well, and...

Exsanguinating hemorrhage is a principal cause of battlefield mortality

Factor VII (FVII) circulates in plasma as a zymogen until it is exposed to tissue factor (TF). When bound to TF, activated FVII (FVIIa) initiates the extrinsic coagulation cascade that results in the formation of a polymerized fibrin clot. In the untraumatized brain, TF is physically isolated from FVII. However, traumatic brain injury (TBI) frequently results in the disruption of the vascular e...

Infantile Mortality in India

The Health Officer of Calcutta, Dr. J. Neild Cook, has submitted a very interesting and valuable report on the terrible infantile mortality in Calcutta, which is deserving the attention of medical men and the general public in other parts of India also. It is well known to all Civil Surgeons that the infantile mortal it}' in India is far and away in excess of what it should be, and Dr. Cook giv...

Cow's milk allergy as a cause of infantile colic: immunofluorescent studies on jejunal mucosa.

Current differential infantile mortality, England and Wales.

A recent publication (Taylor, 1954) reviewed the decline of infantile mortality in England and Wales during the past half-century from a diagnostic viewpoint in as far as it is possible to do so by recourse to official sources. The outcome was a strong presumption in favour of the view that there is no likelihood ofstabilization atthe presentlevel, since the tempo of decline is still steep. One...