On cover: the Health Consequences of Smoking: CANCER

The INSURE Project on Lifecycle Preventive Health Services is a 3-year study to determine the feasibility of implementing preventive services in primary medical care as a health insurance benefit and to assess the short-term impact of this implementa...

Echovirus serotype 11 (ECHO-11) was implicated in three neonatal deaths during an enterovirus outbreak from July through October 1979 in Milwaukee. The deaths followed congenital infections acquired in the community during late pregnancy. Two of the ...

A computer-based financial planning model was formulated to measure the impact of a major capital improvement project on the fiscal health of Stanford University Hospital. The model had to be responsive to many variables and easy to use, so as to all...

Cancer is the second most frequent cause of death in this country. Unlike deaths from other major diseases, cancer deaths have continued to increase in the last several decades, because of the rise in cancer deaths attributable to cigarette smoking, ...