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OCTOBER 2011, VOLUME 94, NO.10

 

 

   

 

 

Complete issue

 

 

Commentaries

282

Too Much of a Good Thing
Joseph H. Friedman, MD

283

Thirty Years into the AIDS Epidemic
Stanley M. Aronson, MD

 


 

CONTRIBUTIONS

284

Health Care Access, Utilization, and Needs in a Predominantly Latino Immigrant Community in Providence, Rhode Island
Salman Khan, MS-IV; Vinnie Velazquez; Craig O’Connor; Rachel E. Simon; Annie S. De Groot, MD

288

Clínica Esperanza/Hope Clinic Clinical Outcomes Review: February–July 2001
Alexandra Bicki, Ralph Rogers, Vinnie Velasquez, Anne S. De Groot

290

Immunization Status of Refugee Children after Resettlement
Delma-Jean Watts, MD; Jennifer F. Friedman, MD, MPH, PhD; Patrick M. Vivier, MD, PhD; Christine E. A. Tompkins, MD, MPH; Anthony J. Alario, MD

294

Educating Patients Critical to Controlling Out-of-Pocket Clinical Laboratory Test Costs
Gary W. Sammarco, Harold R. Caldarone

300

Laryngeal Cancer Today Compared to a Study 50 Years Ago
Francis L. McNelis MD, FACS; Peter T. Nigri MD, FACS

302

Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors Regarding the Bone Marrow Registry among College and Medical Students in Rhode Island
Adam Vasconcellos, MS IV; Anthony Nunes, PhD; Edward Feller, MD, FACP, FACG

 


 

COLUMNS

306

HEALTH BY NUMBERS
Adults with Asthma Who Smoke – A Neglected Population?
Tracy Jackson, MPH; Cynthia Roberts, MA; Deborah N. Pearlman, PhD

309

Letters to the Editor

310

Information for Contributors

311

PHYSICIAN'S LEXICON
The Limbs of Medicine
Stanley M. Aronson, MD

311

Vital Statistics

312

October Heritage

 
 

Cover Tombstone of Countess Olga Lvovna Shakhovskaya” photograph by Vlad Zayas,
MD. The story behind this tombstone and others like is told by Dr. Zayas on page 270
of this journal.

 
 

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