On 11 April 2002, a Victorian supreme court jury ordered British American Tobacco Australia to pay Rolah McCabe $A700 000 in damages. Rolah McCabe is a 51 year old woman dying of lung cancer. She is the first smoker ever in Australia to obtain a damages verdict against the tobacco industry

Pamela J. McCabe and Penny Kalpin are certified clinical nurse specialists employed by the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn, a designated Magnet institution. Ms McCabe serves a 40-bed medical cardiac progressive care unit, and Ms Kalpin serves a 37-bed cardiovascular surgery progressive care unit. committee was developed. In this article, we describe the steps taken in committee development, summar...

Context Recent national reports (National Academy of Engineering, 2003; National Academy of Engineering, 2004; National Academy of Engineering, 2005) highlight the importance of promoting the development of ethical behavior among undergraduates. Academic dishonesty (i.e., cheating) provides one measure of ethical behavior, and it is particularly problematic on college campuses, with upwards of ...

No consensus regarding optimal treatment or etiology of Preiser disease exists. We described the epidemiology,classification and treatment characteristics of 18 patients with Preiser disease. Patients with changes related to previoustrauma, and without radiographs were excluded. Based on the radiographs at diagnosis, we classified 13 scaphoids asHerbert Lanzetta stage II, four...

The eventful chapters of contemporaneous medical history in Connecticut have not yet received the historian's scrutiny and are still only records scattered here and there in organization archives and miscellaneous correspondence. Many of us have been a part of these events and as participants are poorly qualified to place values on them. As in all history, one must await the developing vista of...

Connecting air quality and climate change Michael T. Kleinman, John D. Bachman, Howard J. Feldman, David McCabe, J. Jason West & Arlene F. Fiore To cite this article: Michael T. Kleinman, John D. Bachman, Howard J. Feldman, David McCabe, J. Jason West & Arlene F. Fiore (2015) Connecting air quality and climate change, Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 65:11, 1283-1291, DOI: 10....

PURPOSE To evaluate the life and professional work of the English ophthalmologist Herbert Herbert (1865-1942). DESIGN Historical study. METHODS The main sources for this investigation are Herbert's approximately 65 published papers and 3 monographs. Other sources are contemporary publications by other ophthalmologists and secondary historical reviews of this period. Written communications w...