Munchausen Syndrome A middle aged woman complaining of an abnormally high fever; a thirty-something blue collar worker having multiple seizures a day; a college student mysteriously contracting infection after infection. Is this a medical mystery, or are the patients intentionally harming the...

The disease known as Asiatic cholera first infiltrated Great Britain in 1831, with its arrival in Sunderland1. From there, it broke out in epidemic proportions through 1832. Three more epidemics would follow the 1832 outbreak, 1848, 1854, and 1866. Cholera is defined as an acute infecti...

Introduction In 2005 the Pew Hispanic Center released a report that estimated there were 2.4 illegal immigrants in the state of California the previous year. The report also advised that such a large number of illegal immigrants would have a significant impact on many of the state's programs, ...