Faculty Bibliography

Weeds [Television Program] -- Having burned down her house, Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) and her family travel to the Mexican border town of Ren Mar, Calif., where they visit Bubbie, the 95-year-old grandmother of Nancy's dead husband

Dr. E. Patchen Dellinger, vice chairman of surgery at the University of Washington, which took part in the WHO research, said that when the checklist is discussed with nonmedical people, 'the most common reaction is the question: 'You mean you haven't been doing this all along?'' The number of surgical procedures performed in a year is nearly double the number of births 'and is probably an order of magnitude more dangerous,' [Atul Gawande]'s team reported in an article in the journal Lancet, which was released Tuesday. Creating an accurate, functional checklist for surgery took many revisions, Gawande said, adding: 'You can make bad checklists, and you can make good checklists. It is very easy to make a bad checklist that people want to throw away and never use.'

E. Patchen Dellinger, vice chairman of surgery at the University of Washington, which took part in the WHO research, said that when the checklist is discussed with nonmedical people, 'the most common reaction is the question: 'You mean you haven't been doing this all along?'' Using surgical data from more than one-fourth of the organization's 192 member states, [Atul Gawande]'s team estimated that 234 million major surgical procedures were undertaken each year worldwide. Of the total, 172 million, or 74 percent, are in the wealthier countries and 40 million of those are in the United States. The number of surgical procedures performed in a year is nearly double the number of births 'and is probably an order of magnitude more dangerous,' Gawande's team reported in an article in the journal Lancet, which was released Tuesday

Grey's Anatomy [Television Program] -- The doctors believe that the cement is leaching water from his body while exposing him to alkali, which burns the skin; that toxic chemicals released from the cement are being absorbed; and that the concrete formation is causing a compartment syndrome (compression of nerve, blood vessels and muscle within a closed space, leading to impaired blood flow, and muscle and nerve damage)

Yet organic growers refuse to use the herbicides and disinfectants that could routinely kill this bacteria, and the FDA doesn't regulate food that's brought in from Mexico, which may be where this tomato problem originated. Unfortunately, organic marketers have put up roadblocks against safeguarding produce from the occasional contaminant, despite the fact that no amount of washing is completely effective, and even among non-organic growers, culprit bacteria can be introduced at many points in the field-to-market process.

Tomatoes, which contain fiber, vitamin C, A, B6, K, folate, niacin, potassium, and plenty of other good-for-you minerals, have been removed from Big Macs and other sandwiches and the shelves at McDonalds - leaving shreds of lettuce as practically the only healthy ingredient

Dr. Kevin DeCock, director of the HIV department of the World Health Organization, a UN agency, said that health workers might accept the modest risk of becoming infected with HIV through needles and blood. But, he added, 'it is quite another thing if you are at risk by sharing air with patients with HIV' who have tuberculosis that is resistant to standard and second-line drugs. That, he said, 'has the potential to change how health care workers look at the issue of AIDS care.' At least 700,000 tuberculosis cases develop among HIV-infected people each year, and an estimated 230,000 HIV-infected people will die this year from tuberculosis. The number includes many who received standard antiretroviral drugs that can keep HIV in check but who failed to receive drugs that can usually cure nonresistant tuberculosis, said Dr. Mario Raviglione, director of tuberculosis control for the WHO. A particular problem is that in 2006, only 12 percent of reported tuberculosis cases worldwide were also tested for HIV; in Africa, the percentage was 22. But Raviglione noted signs of progress. He said that the percentage of tuberculosis patients tested for HIV in Kenya rose to 70 in 2007 from 19 in 2004 and in Malawi to 83 from 25 in 2004. In Rwanda, the percentage rose to 89 from zero

Kevin DeCock, director of the HIV department of the World Health Organization, a UN agency, said that health workers might accept the modest risk of becoming infected with HIV through needles and blood. But, he added, 'it is quite another thing if you are at risk by sharing air with patients with HIV' who have tuberculosis that is resistant to standard and second-line drugs. That, he said, 'has the potential to change how health care workers look at the issue of AIDS care.' At least 700,000 tuberculosis cases develop among HIV-infected people each year, and an estimated 230,000 HIV-infected people will die this year from tuberculosis. The number includes many who received standard antiretroviral drugs that can keep HIV in check but who failed to receive drugs that can usually cure nonresistant tuberculosis, said Mario Raviglione, director of tuberculosis control for the WHO

Tuberculosis and AIDS are now epidemic in many areas of the world, and the two infectious diseases must be addressed together, said the officials, who spoke from the United Nations' first high-level meeting on the interaction of the two diseases