The experts sat down for an interactive session chaired by Prof. Jonathan Fleming, Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, to discuss what lies ahead in the field of medicine, at the ...

This newly designated national shrine is holy ground, witnessing to 17th-century Jesuit priests and laymen and St. Kateri ...

The eradication of smallpox, undoubtedly one of public ... vaccination with cowpox was limited in clinical effect, produced a local scar indicative of response, and did not result in secondary ...

The first known victim of smallpox was Pharaoh Ramses V of Egypt, who died in 1157BC and whose mummy still bears the scars of the disease. • When the Spanish took it into Hispaniola - now Haiti ...

I got the recommended vaccines with one exception — she skipped smallpox because the disease was nearly eradicated by the time I was born, and she didn’t want me to have the telltale scar that ...

Aisha Mirza Wounds of the heart and scars on the mind are for a lifetime ... I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on ...

where around 10,000 Carrier people used to gather before smallpox came. “Sometimes it’s empty nets you pull out,” Teed says, but he comes anyway, often camping out for weeks. This year ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people believe they have lived on the Australian continent and managed its lands and ...

PENGUIN PRESS, MARCH 2011 O ur skins record the histories of life’s close scrapes. One of the most common marks that humans carry is, we hope, bound for extinction: the nickel-sized cicatrix left by a ...