1 Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America, 2 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America, 3 Inflammation Program, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America, ...

I am fully aware of the distinction bestowed upon me to participate in tonight's meeting held to honour the memory of Sir Adolphe Abrahams. Sir Adolphe was the founder of clinical sports medicine and I for one am greatly indebted to him for much he taught me. No one before him has brought to bear upon the study of athletics the same combination of comprehensive knowledge of internal medicine an...

In the past ten years, several hundred studies have been conducted to document the plight of uninsured Americans. The evidence from these studies contradicts the notion that a lack of insurance is merely an inconvenience as is often supposed by many Americans. These studies confirm that there are real consequences of being uninsured. The American College of Physicians-American Society of Intern...

Susan Swindells,1 Charles Flexner,2 Courtney V. Fletcher,1 and Jeffrey M. Jacobson3 1Departments of Internal Medicine and Pharmacy Practice, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha; 2Departments of Medicine, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, and International Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; and 3Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Drexel University C...

1Division of Angiology, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland 2Division of Vascular Medicine, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland 3Division of General Internal Medicine, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland 4Department of Internal Medicine, Cantonal Hospital Baden, Baden, Switzerland 5Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital ...