epub |eng | 2014-05-14 | Author:Jonathan Bush

CHAPTER EIGHT The Medical Home in the Woods On a summer day in the mid-1970s, a young doctor from Yale paddled a canoe through the pristine waters of the Adirondack ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:Dan Fagin [Fagin, Dan]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Cluster Busting By the spring of 1995, when Steve Jones called to ask him to look into a possible cluster of childhood cancer in Toms River, Michael Berry ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-26 | Author:Ethan Gutmann

Wang Yuzhi was outside the yard, facing the door to her mother's house. In past dreams she had tried to go to that door many times. There had been a ...

azw3 |eng | 2013-08-26 | Author:Sabet, Kevin [Sabet, Kevin]

MYTH 4 THE LEGALITY OF ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO STRENGTHEN THE CASE FOR LEGAL MARIJUANA “What’s the big deal?” is the attitude of a lot of people toward marijuana today. “Alcohol ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-15 | Author:Nutt, David [Nutt, David]

Figure 10.1: How the route of use affects the speed and intensity of a drug’s effect. Figure 10.1 shows schematically the relative speeds of the most common routes of use. ...

epub | | 2011-05-16 | Author:Randy Shilts [Randy Shilts]

June 2, 1983 SAN FRANCISCO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH “Dr. Silverman, this poster says people should have fewer sexual partners. Does that mean that if somebody had ten sexual partners ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Peter Hecht

TEN Campaign for Cannabis In late September 2010, an unlikely campaign appeared to be on the verge of making history. Just as voters in 1996 had rocked the politics of ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:Sheri Fink [Fink, Sheri]

SPECIAL AGENT Virginia Rider harbored a similar moral outrage. What had happened at Memorial was wrong. It was as basic as the tenets of her Catholic religion, but she wasn’t ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Sandra Beasley [Beasley, Sandra]

CHAPTER SEVEN Kiss of Death Kiss of death for nut allergy girl,” proclaimed the headline in London’s Daily Telegraph on November 29, 2005. A fifteen-year-old girl living outside Quebec City ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1976-01-01 | Author:William H. McNeill [McNeill, William H.]

When we turn attention from Europe and ask what the new plague pattern may have meant elsewhere in the Old World, a troublesome void presents itself. Scholarly discussion of the ...

epub, mobi | | 2010-06-03 | Author:Diamond, Jared [Jared, Diamond,]

Guns, Germs and Steel CHAPTER 13 NECESSITY'S MOTHER O N JULY 3, 1 9 0 8 , ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXCAVATING THE ancient Minoan palace at Phaistos, on the island of Crete, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-02-25 | Author:Michael Moss [Moss, Michael]

For a brief moment, when production costs were outstripping revenue, it looked like Philip Morris had made a bad bet on the Lunchables. Right after Hamish Maxwell signed off on ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-05 | Author:Iversen, Kristen [Iversen, Kristen]

THE INCINERATOR at our little old house in Arvada is long gone and turned into a garden planter by the new owners. We don’t have an incinerator at the house ...

mobi, epub |ru | 2010-10-01 | Author:Ray Moynihan

Six Premature prescriptions We’re very excited that the future is with us. —Dr Irwin Goldstein It was only 7.30 a.m. but the ballroom was already buzzing when Leonore Tiefer’s small ...

mobi, epub |fr | 2010-01-14 | Author:Gary Greenberg

CHAPTER 11 DIAGNOSING FOR DOLLARS Sometime during my first session with a new patient, usually toward the end, the touchiest subject in therapy comes up. Which is not what you ...