… William Roper, who was director of the CDC when the violence prevention program achieved
national prominence, is now president of the Prudential Center for Health Care Research. …

Events during the past decade have dramatically changed the nature and magnitude of the
problem of tuberculosis. Much of what many physicians learned in training about this disease …

ALTHOUGH modern medicine provides great benefits to large numbers of people, medical
professionals and clinical researchers have expressed concern about the effectiveness and …

Although the American public health system has made major contributions to life expectancy
for residents of this country over the past century, the system now faces more complex …

Actions by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to integrate health
communication into overall prevention programs as a means of influencing individual behavior to …

In the United States and throughout the world, the majority of human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV) infections are sexually transmitted. an estimated 12 million other sexually transmitted …

We the undersigned are united in our belief that a unique opportunity now exists to address
the crisis of quality facing the nation’s health system. The human and financial costs of …

The document is the fourth revision of the statement on Preventing Lead Poisoning in Young
Children by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The recommendations continued …

… I was inspired by the June 30 EDITORIAL Science, health, and truth by William L. Roper as
I have often been inspired by editorials and the comments that result on so many topics that …

• Symptoms of acute food poisoning developed in eight members of a group who ate lunch
at a cafeteria. After brief incubation periods, all affected individuals complained of nausea …