Using an epidemiological approach, this text charts the changes wrought by misguided social
policy on the American landscape since the 1970s. It begins with the decision of Nixon's …

V AST AREAS OF New York City have come to resemble the bombed-out cities of Europe
and Asia after World War II. Homeless people wander the streets and public places like war …

Melanoma is the most aggressive of the cutaneous malignancies, projected to cause over
9,500 deaths in the United States in 2014. 1 More effective immune-based treatments and …

Urban neighborhoods form the basic functional unit of municipalities. Socioeconomically,
they consist of social networks and interlocking layers of social networks. Old, stable …

Glaucoma is an optic neuropathy affecting approximately 60 million people worldwide and
is the second most common cause of irreversible blindness. Elevated intraocular pressure (…

This article describes the cascading diffusion of “inner city problems” of disease and disorder
in the United States–from the huge marginalised inner city communities of the largest …

Intraocular pressure (IOP) is maintained as a result of the balance between production of
aqueous humour (AH) by the ciliary processes and hydrodynamic resistance to its outflow …

AIDS is well known to have diffused hierarchically among US metropolitan regions, from the
larger to the smaller, along national travel routes. Here we relate that diffusion to economic …

Glaucoma is a chronic progressive optic neuropathy. There are extracellular matrix (ECM)
changes associated with optic disc cupping in the optic nerve head (ONH) and subsequent …

Background: Uveal melanoma (UM) is an uncommon melanoma subtype with poor prognosis.
Agents that have transformed the management of cutaneous melanoma have made …