Pulse

Briefs

New book details health impacts of climate change, wind turbines and health, the AMA weighs in on climate change

 

A Hot Meal and a Health Check

Medical students bring health care to the homeless.

 

In the Lyme Light

The debate over how Lyme disease should be treated has moved to the state Capitol. Should the Legislature have a say?

 

End Notes

The Delivery

By Christie Gove Berg, M.D.

 

MMA Viewpoint

The Evolution of Measurement

 

Tracking Reform

 

MMA Resolutions for 2009

November 2009 | Table of Contents

Cover Story

Sick of the Cold

What is it about cold weather that keeps us in harm's way?

By Jeanne Mettner

 

Clinical and Health Affairs

Novel H1N1 Influenza Hospitalizations: Minneapolis- St. Paul Metropolitan Area, 2008-2009

By Laura Fleege, Emily Hallberg, Craig Morin, M.P.H., Richard Danila, Ph.D., M.P.H., and Ruth Lynfield, M.D.
 

Weather or Not: The Importance of Vitamin D Status Monitoring and Supplementation

By Gregory A. Plotnikoff, M.D., M.T.S.
 

Predicting Trauma Admissions: The Effect of Weather, Weekday, and Other Variables

By Kevin A. Friede, Marc C. Osborne, M.D., Darin J. Erickson, Ph.D., Jon S. Roesler, M.S., Arsalan Azam, J. Kevin Croston, M.D., Michael D. McGonigal, M.D., and Arthur L. Ney, M.D.
 

The Many Uses for Cause-of-Death Information

By Steve Elkins

 

Perspective

Harry’s Heart

A snowfall brings a neighborly good deed and a dose of preventive medicine.

By Nancy J. Baker, M.D.

 

Commentary

Climate Change and Health Vulnerabilities

Physicians should be advocating strongly for policy changes that will stem global warming.

By J. Drake Hamilton, M.A.
 

Reflections on Reform

Ann Settgast and Elizabeth Frost, Bryan Dowd, and Maureen Reed share their thoughts on federal health care reform.

 

Book Review

Positive Perspectives

Two new books look at health care reform—one through an historic lens and the other through an international one.

Review by Charles R. Meyer, M.D.

 

Editor's Note

Enduring the Weather

 

MMA News Now

Pawlenty Outlines 2010 Reform Proposals
MN Senators Vote for SGR Repeal
MMA Physicians Urge Parents to Watch for Flu Signs
Save the Date for Day at the Capitol


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