If it makes sense to prevent people f rom drowning, why don’t we prevent other things that harm people? Why not go upstream and prevent that harried mother f rom becoming so f rustrated with her child that she hits her? Why not prevent kids in middle school f rom teasing the girl who is “dif f erent,” and thereby prevent her f rom committing suicide? Why not help pregnant women quit smoking so ...

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis (TB) rates remain high in regions of Southern Mexico despite the existence of a National Tuberculosis Program. Understanding TB epidemiology in such settings would assist in the design of improved TB control and highlight the challenges confronting TB control in developing countries. METHODS We conducted a retrospective review of treatment control cards from 1991 to 19...

Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) is highly effective at preventing morbidity and mortality due to infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but does not eradicate the virus. Consequently, cART must be administered life-long. Recent progress has stimulated research towards a cure of HIV infection. Approaches under investigation include hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, l...

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Living in the computer and information age, most people are familiar with the concept of digital information. Computer hard drives and CD’s hold a certain number of bits of information. The stored information can readily be transformed into music, pictures or documents. Information has an objective reality and is deeply connected to fundamental “laws of nature.” Evolution is about the copying a...

osteo-malacia, oven the acute form, developing during pregnancy, may be cured by the injection of adrenalin. This interest in Germany has become so general as to lead to this method of treatment being ordinarily spoken of as the " Bossikur." The interest in the subject has been extended very greatly, during the last few months, by further assertions, of Professor Bossi, based on experimental wo...

This is a very readable book and gives a very reassuring account of life and work in a modern mental hospital. In such a hospital the author spent a period as an observer. The book is of interest to those in the psychiatric professions because it shows the impact of the mental hospital on the lay person who is neither patient nor staff. It is not a profound book but psychiatrists, psychiatric s...

The state of "common unhappiness" presumably regarded by Freud as the end point of the psychoanalytic cure is examined as an ontological conviction reflected in a still-prevailing view of the self as ideally autonomous and fully demarcated from its surround. More recent contributors have envisioned individuation as relationally contingent rather than as essentially solitary. Yet, although more ...