Mortality statistics of Peninsular Malaysia for the period 1950-1989 have been studied in relation to cardiovascular diseases, with particular emphasis on coronary heart disease as an important cause of death. It was observed that among six major disease groups reviewed, cardiovascular diseases which occupied third place as a cause of death in 1950 emerged as the number one killer during the 19...

THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM, the American Physiological Society, and physiologists all over the world were stunned by the untimely passing of Dale J. Benos on October 7th, 2010 (Fig. 1). In his memorial service, held November 12th, 2010 at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a number of distinguished scientists, educators and administrators, and medical students delivered movin...

Established in 1950, the Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson provided Arizona women with family planning [3] resources until 1977, when it expanded to locations outside of Tucson and became Planned Parenthood of Southern Arizona. The Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson was formed after the Clinica Para Madres, the first birth control [4] clinic in Arizona, merged with the national organization ...

The neotropical rattlesnake Crotalus durissus occurs in South America, where it is generally associated to open areas the dry diagonal of continent, composed xeric and savanna biomes. Since 1950’s, however, species started be recorded rainforest Land-use change, especially conversion forests pasture, remains a widely believed but still untested hypothesis explain this range expansion. An equall...