Over the short history of infection control practice, a mere quarter century, those of us in the profession have witnessed, developed, and adapted to continuous change. In spite of responding to this rapid change, we are constantly urged to reevaluate what we are doing, as well as how we are doing it. We continue, challenged with new ideas, new processes, and new information. Indeed, even some ...

Stone et al. (1) find that their analysis is unable to show a causal relation of local temperature anomalies, such as in Texas in 2011, with global warming. It was because of limitations in such local analyses that we reframed the problem in our report (2), separating the task of attribution of the causes of global warming from the task of quantifying changes in the likelihood of extreme local ...

Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories was a 1980 California case that established the doctrine of market share liability for personal injury cases. For such liability, when a drug causes personal injury and the manufacturer of the drug cannot be identified, each producer is responsible for paying the settlement in proportion to the percentage of the market they supplied. Judith Sindell and Maureen Rog...

It is with deep regret that we record the death on 20 March 1980 of Dr. Robert Heller, for many years a most valued friend and associate of the Wellcome Institute. Robert Heller was a native of Vienna forced to flee Austria after a period of imprisonment by the Nazis. His basic medical education had been completed in Austria and was followed by a period of physiological research in Italy. Retur...