A study was made of the isolation of enteroviruses from 62 cerebrospinal fluids and 141 autopsy specimens with standard fluid monolayer tissue culture methods and tissue cultures under agar overlay with and without added MgCl2 (0.025M). Sixteen virus...

The relationship between obesity and 18 different disease conditions was examined in a cross-sectional study of 73,000 weight-conscious women (TOPS Club members). The women reported an average of 1.6 disease conditions each (based on their responses ...

Cover-The nearly empty IV bottle symbolizes the short- ages of raw materials and supplies of energy facing the United States. The implications for planners and providers of health services and some recommendations for action are outlined in the artic...

Medical care has several important functions other than restoring or maintaining health. These other functions are assessment and certification of health status, prognostication, segregation of the ill to limit communication of illness, and helping t...

Determinations were made of the microhematocrit levels of 50 male and 50 female Spanish Americans and 50 male and 50 female white persons selected at random at two Los Angeles County youth clinics. One clinic served primarily a Spanish American popul...

Reprint of Public health reports, vol. 34, no. 16, April 19, 1919

Expecting to find agreement between the geographic distribution of hypertension and renal disease, we developed regional mortality rates for 1950-72 and prevalence rates for a Selective Service cohort born in 1939-41 and examined during 1957-69. For ...

Cover-The nearly empty IV bottle symbolizes the short- ages of raw materials and supplies of energy facing the United States. The implications for planners and providers of health services and some recommendations for action are outlined in the artic...

Pesticide use was examined by means of a random survey in Allegheny County, Pa., in October and November 1973. The objectives included gaining insight into the need for a new community pesticide program and estimating its public acceptance. The 110 s...

PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS began as a one-page bulletin issued by the Supervising Surgeon-General of the Marine-Hospital Service. The first bulletin, which appeared July 13, 1878, is reproduced as part of the journal's bicentennial reprint series.

A cancer Surveillance Program was formed in 1970 to provide a mechanism for the early identification of some 22,000 cancer cases that are diagnosed annually among the large and varied population of Los Angeles County. The program's rapid reporting pr...

Pulmonary function tests were administered to 1,573 male and female office workers 30 years of age or older during their annual periodic health examinations. The frequency of respiratory infections was established from the workers' medical records. F...

Mailed questionnaires were used to examine the success of PKU (phenylketonuria) screening programs that were operated by departments of health and to examine differences between these programs. Of 55 departments, 44 were returned and 42 departments r...