A s of 2010, there were more than 14 million widowed persons in the U.s. population—nearly 3 million men and well more than 11 million women (U.s. Bureau of the Census, 2012, Table 57). About 13% of men and 40% of women aged 65 and older, and 57% of women aged 75 and older, are widows. This is, of course, just a single snapshot in time; nearly half of the population necessarily experience widow...

According to Freud , women’s psychic representation into the unconscious which matches the genital maturity proper of adulthood does not exist, a fact that makes this concept so complex. Regarding Oedipus, sexuality shall order itself, determining what position the subject will occupy into the sex gap. In other words, Freud points out that a subject’s sexual identity is determined by its relati...

ithin 24 hours of the incident, neurosurgeons arrived in Port au rince to provide medical care and assistance. Barth A. Green, .D., chairman of Neurosurgery at the University of Miami, led ne of these efforts as he has had a long-standing program to rovide medical care in the impoverished nation: Project Medshare, a nonprofit international aid organization at the Univerity of Miami. A300-bed te...

1Division of Infectious Diseases, National University Hospital, Singapore 2Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 3Department of Nursing, National University Hospital, Singapore Address for Correspondence: A/Prof Dale Fisher, Division of Infectious Diseases, University Medicine Cluster, National University Hospital, Singapore, 1E Ken...

On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico, causing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis on a level that none of us have experienced before. The following editorial intends to show a physician's perspective of the impact of this storm on healthcare, particularly in triggering cardiovascular events.

Research also makes clear that individuals who ultimately adopt a non-heterosexual lifestyle are more likely to suffer from a host of negative outcomes including psychiatric disorders, domestic violence and sexual assault, and increased risk for chronic diseases, AIDS and shortened life spans. 12,13,14,15,16,17 Schools should not affirm and thereby encourage young people to adopt lifestyles mor...

Public economic planning is a pervasive part of the social space of political economy. In times of crisis, public officials in American government agencies at the local and national level increasingly use the vocabulary of economic planning. My PhD dissertation is a collection of papers representing a pointed critique of urban economic planning by public officials in times of crisis and prosper...

The Yogyakarta area in Indonesia suffered a devastating earthquake on 27May 2006. Therewas an immediate international response, and the International Charter “Space and Major Disasters” was activated, leading to a rapid production of image-based damage maps and other assistance. Most of the acquired imageswere processed byUNOSAT andDLR-ZKI, while substantial damagemapping also occurred on the g...