An Agricultural Chemical on the Move by Vincanne Adams

Or, What Medicine Doesn't Know by Ed Cohen

A Mission-by-Mission Celebration of NASA's Extraordinary Spaceflight Program by Roland Miller

Abigail A. Dumes

Report for UNCDF/UNHCR

Perspectives in Community-based Conservation, David Western and R. Michael Wright, eds., Shirley Strum, associate ed.

A Comprehensive Guide to Textured Hair Care by Audrey Sivasothy

A Complete Guide to Hair Care for Transitioners and New Naturals by Audrey Sivasothy

A Manual for Medical and Health Workers in Health Centres and Rural Hospitals eds. J. Paget Stanfield & Nimrod Bwibo

Illness, Insurance, and a Young American's Struggle for Survival by Erin Havel

All children benefit from the regular health monitoring provided by Muthaiga Pediatrics. If a child's health records and/or history are incomplete or unknown, as is often the case with adoption, then such screenings may take on an even greater importance. By catching and treating a child's health challenges at an early stage, when therapies can be most effective, Muthaiga Pediatrics can help you secure the long-term health of your new son or daughter. If, as is most likely, your adoptive child is perfectly healthy, the whole family will enjoy greater peace of mind as you continue to bond.

Malaria is a serious illness. It is generally most dangerous for children and pregnant women. Mosquitoes are not the cause but the carrier (vector) of malaria. Certain mosquito species inject a tiny parasite into the human bloodstream when they bite. The malaria parasite attacks the liver and, in some cases, the nervous system and brain, particularly if the disease is not treated promptly. Muthaiga Pediatrics recommends a two-step approach to malaria prevention for all families living in or visiting areas of East Africa that are less than 2,500 feet above sea level.

When Professor Alexander Fleming noted the powerful effect of penicillium notatum mold on a lab dish of staphylococcus bacteria back in 1928, a new era in medical treatment was born. Infected wounds and previously life-threatening or debilitating illnesses, including many childhood diseases, soon became treatable—and survivable—as scientists developed a range of powerful antibiotic drugs. For those of us raising families now, the magnitude of this advance is difficult to imagine or overstate.

As parents, we face a number of new vaccine options. Because we didn’t grow up with these new vaccines or learn about them in school, they are not always well understood. And, since some of the new vaccines often are not part of national immunization schedules, a lot of parents wonder how necessary they are and if the extra expense is cost effective. Over the next weeks and months, we’ll be posting about some of these newer immunizations. We’ll start today by sharing some basic information.

Now that you know a lot more about swimmer’s ear and how to treat it, here are some tips that may prevent the condition from developing the next time your holiday plans or family routine include fun on the water. Earwax protects against foreign objects entering the ear canal and helps repel water. Its acidic pH also helps prevent the overgrowth of microorganisms. Removing the wax removes the moisture barrier, leaving exposed wet skin vulnerable to infection.

The elephant's tusks, greatly coveted by humans, are by far longer and more elegant those of the few other animals that also have them. And the elephant's flexible, endlessly useful trunk, a lithe appendage that is nose and lip combined, has no equivalent feature in any other animal. Yet the stately elephant sports on its ample backside a skinny little flywhisk of a tail. Improbable as the elephant's parts are, the whole is a creature of consummate dignity, or of wicked hilarity, depending upon the individual elephant's mood and personality. In addition to its superb equipment for managing the physical environment, the elephant is keenly intelligent and emotionally complex in a way that resembles no other animal so much as man.

Perspectives in Community-based Conservation, David Western and R. Michael Wright, eds., Shirley Strum, associate ed.

Amadou Hampate Ba / Jeanne Garane, translator

Nick Bromell

Sharing Lessons Learned Along the Way by Carol Lavin Bernick

Fifty Years in Kenya Politics by GG Kariuki

The Story by David Maraniss

A Collection of Hair Stories,Trials and Triumphs by Saja Publishing Company