Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a blow or jolt to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the function of the brain. In the United States, 1.4 million individuals sustain a TBI per year. Of those, 235,000 are hospitalized, 1.1 million are treated and released from an emergency department and 50,000 die.2 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that 5.3 million ...

Despite the fact that dental caries are preventable with ageappropriate and effective caries management through periodic dental visits, many children experience dental decay. Based on The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, more than a quarter of US children age 2 to 5 years and more than half of the children age 6 to 8 years had dental caries in the period of 1999–2004. The 2007-...

PROVIDENCE – “I am a son of Lwala,” said Milton Ochieng’, MD, a gastroenterology fellow at Rhode Island Hospital. This month he returns to Lwala, his southwestern Kenyan village near Lake Victoria, to work in the community health center he and his brother, Dr. Fred Ochieng’, founded in 2007, along with the nonprofit Lwala Community Alliance. The health center has now expanded to include a 12-be...

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) training and education are vital and vibrant aspects of a young and evolving profession. This article provides a perspective on this effort in the United States and reviews current activity in Rhode Island.

Despite the promise of geocoding and use of area-based socioeconomic measures to overcome the paucity of socioeconomic data in US public health surveillance systems, no consensus exists as to which measures should be used or at which level of geography. The authors generated diverse single-variable and composite area-based socioeconomic measures at the census tract, block group, and zip code le...

Three larval parasitoids were imported from Europe to control the lily leaf beetle, Lilioceris lilii Scopoli (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), an accidentally introduced herbivore of native and cultivated lilies in North America. Tetrastichus setifer Thomson (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) was introduced in Massachusetts in 1999, and was found to be established there in 2002. Subsequent releases of T. set...