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David Bodian (15 May 1910 – 18 September 1992) was an American medical scientist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine who worked in polio research. In the early 1940s he helped lay the groundwork for the eventual development of polio vaccines by combining neurological research with the study of the pathogenesis of polio.
JAMA Pediatrics is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by the American Medical Association. [1] It covers all aspects of pediatrics . The journal was established in 1911 as the American Journal of Diseases of Children and renamed in 1994 to Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine , before obtaining its current title in 2013.
It was established in 1970 as Current Problems in Pediatrics, obtaining its current name in 2001. It is published by Elsevier and the editor-in-chief is Arthur Fierman (New York University School of Medicine). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 2.327. [1]
The journal was established in 1921 and renamed Acta Paediatrica Scandinavica in 1964, returning to its original title in 1992. The journal was conceived as a general pediatrics journal and its original aim was to "give studies from the Nordic countries a worldwide audience."
Cases of polio in the U.S. are “extremely rare,” notes Lipps. In fact, today “there is only a single known poliomyelitis case in the U.S.,” points out Lloyd. That’s largely due to the ...
Palestinian health officials on Friday reported the first case of polio in an unvaccinated 10-month-old child in the Gaza city of Deir al-Balah, the first case in years in the coastal enclave that ...
It consists of a main article Poliomyelitis and seven daughter articles that go into further depth: Poliovirus, Polio vaccine, Poliomyelitis eradication, History of poliomyelitis, Post-polio syndrome, Polio Hall of Fame, and List of polio survivors. The opening two paragraphs of the main article provide an excellent summary of the subject.
As a pediatrician he took part in trials of the Salk polio vaccine in the 1950s. From 1961 to 1988 he was chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Southern California Medical School. From 1969 to 1970 he was part of the World Health Organization's campaign to eradicate smallpox. He performed vaccinations, presented lectures ...