Issue Highlights - November 2017 (92:B6)

Highlights from the Current Issue: June 2017.

2017 Research Highlights

With NIH support, scientists across the United States and the world conduct wide-ranging research to improve the health of our nation. Groundbreaking NIH-funded research often receives top scientific honors. In 2017, these included 4 NIH-supported Nobel Prize winners and 2 NIH-funded recipients of top awards from the Lasker Foundation. Here’s just a small sampling of the research accomplishment...

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Nuclear power plant accident As emergency clinicians we all have a duty to undertake regular chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) training in addition to major incident training. We do this training in the hope that we will never experience the reality of a CBRN incident like our colleagues in Japan. In March 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant suffered a series of ...

National Diabetes Month — November 2017

1171 Vaccination Coverage Among Children Aged 19–35 Months — United States, 2016 1178 Progress in Childhood Vaccination Data in Immunization Information Systems — United States, 2013–2016 1182 Harmful Algal Bloom–Associated Illnesses in Humans and Dogs Identified Through a Pilot Surveillance System — New York, 2015 1185 Update on Vaccine-Derived Polioviruses — Worldwide, January 2016–June 2017 ...

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With this issue of Heart, both authors and readers will see several changes with the transition to the new editorial team. Heart is an international journal of cardiovascular medicine; the top 10 countries of origin for original research submissions are the UK, Italy, USA, Netherlands, China, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Spain and Australia, but with a sizable number of contributions from other...